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A collection of thirty-plus stories by regional storytellers, each representing the Texas Storytelling Tradition as nurtured within the Tejas Storytelling Association since 1984. Contributors to this sampler of folktales, original stories, humorous and historic tales are all part of Texas Storytelling Festival history. The Festival is an annual event in Denton, Texas.

Donald Davis, a former Methodist minister, has become one of America's most-revered traditional storytellers. While Davis has made his name telling coming-of-age stories of his childhood in the Great Smoky Mountains, this seminal volume focuses upon characters who have populated Davis's life and--he believes--will bring light into readers' lives. They are the unknown, but to family, who defined dignity, graciousness, and kindness in the author...

Kevin Cordi, educator and champion of a new generation of storytellers, elicits insights on the challenges young talents face as they practice an ancient art form in today's culture: - Charles Parrott on truth claims in storytelling today - Danielle Bellone on the blending of old forms and new audience concerns - Alison Bergblom Johnson on the storyteller's relationship to the story - Cooper Braun on what works and what doesn't when telling ha...

This is a traditional "how and why" or Pourquoi Tale, a folktale retold by a prominent American storyteller.

A humor-laced episodic memoir, Brother Dog is the story of a working-class childhood in the rural South during the 1950s and 60s, striving to become a filmmaker on an ever-expanding stage, helping elect a friend to the presidency, and anecdotal encounters with Chuck Berry, Prime Minister Tony Blair and other luminaries, all rich in imagery, grit, and humor.

An investigative reporter for a statewide newspaper connects the dots on an interstate jewel fencing scheme which leads to the capitol city mayor's door, and implicates a would-be governor. The reporter, a Vietnam vet whose keeps his black ops background under wraps, is attacked by rogue cops, who also threaten his daughter and his girlfriend. His USMC training, unknown to his assailants, saves him from serious injury, but danger on the nation...

The Boo Baby girl tires of the boring life of a baby, crawling around, getting up, falling down, walking around the coffee table, falling down . . . she aims for more so she climbs out the window--miraculously, as soon as she is out the window she can walk, run, climb, and talk like a grownup. So she heads out to seek her fortune. The first adventure she has is rescuing Bootsie, The Cattle-hearding Chiahuahua. Bootsie has been kicked by a cow ...

Sue Cato Gennings' first novel traces two young immigrant brothers from early adulthood in Tidewater Virginia to successful entrepreneurship in northern Georgia during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Penniless but energetic, the brothers struggle to refine and realize their dreams of family and business success. Their paths explore themes of family, ambition, honor, and maturation, finding resolutions as distinct as their ch...

Written in the style of a man who knows James Michener (1907-1997) well, The Road to Mariontown is meticulously researched, engaging and entertaining. The book presents a richly detailed history of Osceola County and early Michigan. This long-view history of Osceola County, Michigan, focuses on geologic history, native cultures, exploration by European and American Whites, Entrepreneurial development, governmental formation, railroad-building,...

Norris Norman has picked a very difficult subject for his book and has done wonders with it. There is probably no more obscure part of the history of Arkansas than the period in which this book is situated, namely, the second decade of the nineteenth century. Mr. Norman makes it come alive in a very convincing way. His main character, a French/Indian mixed-blood or metis, is carefully crafted and is ideally positioned to tell the tale of the N...

All too often both traditional storytellers and the media regard the Hero's Journey as the "one true recipe for a good story." In this well-researched and clearly written book, Dorothy Cleveland and Barbara Schutzgruber prove that there are other kinds of stories that are just as essential to the human experience: tales of survival and transformation that we may encounter at any point in our lives. With deep knowledge and personal honesty, the...

Not only do I feel refreshed and inspired, but now I have a great tool to use with my clients." > "Stories by Beth come with depth, wit, and humor. At the end of the tales, I felt time had been spent with a family member and the tellings were about absent friends." > "Each performance is uniquely satisfying, food for both my head and my heart!" > "This has been more bene? cial than 15 years of therapy!" "Great opportunity. Helped open closed d...

Readers of folktales will relish this collection of rare stories from Hungary. Although the tales were told over one hundred years ago, Zalka's research, translation and embellishments have given these almost-lost stories new lives and fresh faces.

The Stable BoyStory by Shirley A. TaylorIllustrations by Wendell E. Hall In writing a nativity story from the point of view of a boy who lives in the stable, Shirley Taylor has given us a vivid account of Christ's birth and a motivating experience to readers and hearers, alike. Likely to become an 'instant classic' of Christian literature, this simple story will inspire thousands of retellings by pastors, Christian educators, parents and grand...

Inspiring, practical, anchored in real classrooms and infused with the rich diversity of the oral storytelling tradition this is a remarkable book. Dr. Margaret H. Lippert, Storytelling Mentor, Lesley University and author A must for teaching social studies. I couldn t put it down. The stories are so riveting!You ll never teach about the Civil War, Native Americans or the Holocaust the same way again once you ve lived through these experiences...

The struggle is real. It has purpose. You are not alone. From cities far and wide, people in recovery have sent Roger A. emails thanking him for his meditation-inspiring sonnets. Here, from some of these emails, are the words of people struggling and recovering. We've identified their hometowns but withheld individual names, to honor the recovering person's anonymity."This [sonnet "Defining Moment"] so poignantly dispels the troubles some of u...

There's more to this basketball story than meets the eye. "Jesse Crosse, " the story of a hopeless basketball team brought together by an inspired group of new recruits and an inspired coach, turns out to be both moving and uplifting

An Intimate Self-Portrait of a Spectacular Rule-Breaker "Sometimes frightening, always amazingly candid, and ultimately redeeming." - Richard, Recovery Counselor, Illinois "Part nihilistic road memoir, part reality therapy, and entirely vivid." - Dee, Recovery Counselor, California "A book that could change lives, Speed Trap is one of the most powerful stories I have ever read." - David Norwood, Sheriff, Ouachita County, Arkansas "Speed Trap i...

Gerry Fierst has not written yet another wedding book. He has drawn a new roadmap, drawn fresh routes to old oases, and opened up vistas. In this in-depth, but very practical book, Gerry Fierst is forging new and honest territory in Western civilisation. --Dally Mesenger, Civil Celebrant and Founder of the International College of Celebrance, Melbourne, Australia A wise and fine book by a writer who understands that stories are a connecting ti...

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