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Baker, Augusta and Greene, Ellin. Storytelling: Art and Technique. Bowker, 1987.
Bauer, Carolyn. Handbook for Storytellers. ALA, 1994.
Breneman, Lucille. Once Upon A Time: A Storytelling Handbook. Nelson-Hall, 1983.
Bruchac, Joseph. Tell Me a Tale: A Book About Storytelling. Harcourt, 1997.
Bryant, Sara Cone. How to Tell Stories to Children. Houghton-Mifflin, 1973.
Cabral, Len. Len Cabral's Storytelling Book. Neal-Schuman, 1997.
Geisler, Harlynne. Storytelling Professionally: The Nuts and Bolts of a Working Performer. Libraries Unlimited, 1997.
Holt, David. The Storyteller's Guide. With Bill Mooney. August House, 1996.
Lipman Doug. Improving Your Storytelling. August House, 1999.
------. The Storytelling Coach. August House, 1995.
Livo, Norma. Storytelling: Process and Practice. Libraries Unlimited, 1985.
MacDonald, Margaret Read. The Storyteller's Sourcebook: A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore Collections for Children. Neal Schuman, 1982; updated Gale, 1999.
------. Storyteller's Start-Up Book. August House, 1993.
Miller, Teresa. Joining In: An Anthology of Audience Participation Tales and How to Tell Them. Yellow Moon, 1988.
Pellowski, Anne. The World of Storytelling. Bowker, 1990.
Sawyer, Ruth. The Way of the Storyteller. Viking, 1942.
Schimmel, Nancy. Just Enough to Make a Story: A Sourcebook for Storytelling. 3rd. Ed. Sisters' Choice Press, 1992.
Shedlock, Marie L. Art of the Storyteller. Dover, Rev. ed., 1951 (c. 1915).
Aarne, Antti. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Translated and revised by Stith Thompson. Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1961.
Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to Folktales in the English Language: Based on the Aarne-Thompson Classification System. Greenwood Press, 1987.
Collins, Rives and Pamela Cooper. Look What Happened to Frog: Storytelling in Education. Gorsuch Scarisbrick, 1992.
Cook, Elizabeth. The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales for Teachers and Storytellers. Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 1975.
Dailey, Sheila. Putting the World in a Nutshell: The Art of the Formula Tale. H.W. Wilson, 1994.
Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore. Harpers, 1984.
Gose, Elliott B., Jr. The World of the Irish Wonder Tale: An Introduction to the Study of Fairy Tales. University of Toronto, 1985.
Hamilton, Martha. Children Tell Stories. Richard C. Owen, 1990.
Hayes, Joe. Here Comes the Storyteller. Cinco Puntos Press, 1996.
Hearne, Betsy. Story: From Fireplace to Cyberspace. GSLIS Publications, 1999.
Leeming, David A., ed. Storytelling Encyclopedia: Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World. Oryx Press, 1997.
Livo, Norma. Storytelling Activities. Libraries Unlimited, 1987.
------. Storytelling Folklore Sourcebook. Libraries Unlimited, 1991.
Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1966.
Mason, Harriet. Everyone a Storyteller: Integrating Storytelling Into the Curriculum. Lariat, 1991.
Peterson, Carolyn Sue. Story Programs: A Sourcebook of Materials. Scarecrow, 1980.
Sobol, Joseph. The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival. University of Illinois, 1999.
Sutherland, Zena, with May Hill Arbuthnot and Dianne Monson. Children and Books. 9th ed. HarperCollins, 1990.
Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
------. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Medieval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-books, and Local Legends. Indiana University Press, 1956.
Zeitlin, Steven J. et al. A Celebration of American Family Folklore: Tales & Traditions from the Smithsonian Collection. Pantheon, 1982.
Baughman, Ernest. Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America. Mouton, 1966.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Birch, Carol and Melissa Heckler, eds. Who Says? Essays on Pivotal Issues in Contemporary Storytelling. August House, 1996.
Bottigheimer, Ruth, ed. Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
------. Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales. Yale Univ. Press, 1987.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings. W.W. Norton , 1981.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Princeton Univ. Press, 1972.
Ellis, Elizabeth. Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories. With Loren Niemi. August House, 2001.
Livo, Norma. Who's Afraid...?: Facing Children's Fears With Folktales. Libraries Unlimited, 1994.
Luthi, Max. Once Upon A Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales. Indiana University Press, 1976.
------. The European Folktale: Form and Nature. Indiana University Press, 1986.
------. The Fairy Tale as Art Form and Portrait of Man. Indiana University Press, 1987.
Norfolk, Bobby & Sherry. The Moral of the Story: Folktales for Character Development. August House, 1999.
Radin, Paul. The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. Schocken, 1971.
Stone, Elizabeth. Black Sheep & Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us. Times Books, 1988.
Stone, Kay. Burning Brightly: New Light on Old Tales Told Today. Broadview Press, 1998.
Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton University, 1987.
------. Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Princeton University, 1992.
Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.
Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales. University of Texas, 1979.
------. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. Routledge, 1988.
------. Creative Storytelling: Building Community Changing Lives. Routledge, 1995.
------. Don't Bet on the Prince. Methuen, 1986.
------. Fairy Tale As Myth, Myth As Fairy Tale. University of Kentucky, 1994.
------. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion. Wildman, 1983.
------. Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. Routledge, 1997.
------. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. Norton, 2001.
------. The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. Bergin, 1983.
------. When Dreams Come True : Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. Routledge, 1999.
Dundes, Alan, ed. Cinderella: A Casebook. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982.
Hearne, Betsy. Beauties and Beasts: The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series. Oryx Press, 1993.
------. Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale. Univ of Chicago Press, 1989.
MacDonald, Margaret Read. Tom Thumb: The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series. Oryx Press, 1993.
Aldana, Patricia. Jade and Iron: Latin American Tales from Two Cultures. Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre, 1996.
Baltuck, Naomi. Apples from Heaven. Linnet, 1995.
-----. Crazy Gibberish. Linnet, 1996.
Briggs, Katherine M. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970.
Bruchac, Joseph. The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America. With Gayle Ross. Bridgewater, 1994.
Clarkson, Atelia, ed. World Folktales: A Scribner Resource Collection. Scribner's, 1980.
Cole, Joanna. Best Loved Folktales from Around the World. Anchor, 1982.
Darnton, Robert. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
Defty, Jeff. Creative Fingerplays and Action Rhymes. Oryx, 1992.
DeSpain, Pleasant. Eleven Nature Tales. August House, 1996.
-----. The Emerald Lizard: Fifteen Latin American Tales to tell in English and Spanish. August House, 1999.
-----. Thirty-Three Multicultural Tales to Tell. August House, 1993.
-----.Twenty-Two Splendid Tales to Tell. August House, 1994.
Dickson, Paul and Joseph Goulden. There Are Alligators in Our Sewers and Other American Credos. New York: Delacorte Press, 1983.
Eastman, Mary. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends. Faxon, 19__.
------. Index to Fairy Tales, Second Supplement. Faxon, 1915.
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Ballantine,1997.
Forest, Heather. Wisdom Tales from Around the World. August House, 1996.
------. Wonder Tales from Around the World. August House, 1997.
Fujita, Hiroko. Stories To Play With. August House, 1999.
Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm. Grimms' Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories. Trans. by Ralph Manheim. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1983
Hamilton, Martha. Stories In My Pocket: Tales Kids Can Tell. With Mitch Weiss. Fulcrum, 1996.
------. Through the Grapevine: World Tales Kids Can Read & Tell. August House, 2001.
Holt, David, ed. More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World. August House, 2000.
------. Ready-To-Tell Tales. August House,1994.
Hutchinson, Veronica. Candlelight Stories. Minton, Balch, 1926.
------. Chimney Corner Stories. Minton, Balch, 1925.
------. Fireside Stories. Minton, Balch, 1927
Ireland, Norma. Index to Fairy Tales, 1949-1972. Faxon, 1973.
------. Index to Fairy Tales, 1973-77. Scarecrow, 1985.
Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. Dover reprint of 1898 edition.
Jaffe, Nina. Patakin: World Tales of Drums and Drummers. Holt, 1994.
------. The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah. Scholastic, 1997.
Johnson, Edna, et al. Anthology of Children's Literature. Houghton, 1977.
Livo, Norma. Folk Stories of the Hmong. With Dia Cha. Libraries Unlimited, 1991.
------. Troubadour's Storybag: Musical Folktales of the World. Fulcrum, 1996.
Lurie, Alison. Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales. Crowell, 1980.
McBride-Smith, Barbara. Tell It Together: Foolproof Scripts for Story Theater. August House, 2001.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The Silver Treasure: Myths and Legends of the World. McElderry, 1977.
MacDonald, Margaret Read. Shake-It-Up Tales!: Stories to Sing, Dance, Drum, and Act Out. August House, 2000.
------. Twenty Tellable Tales. H.W. Wilson, 1988.
Martin, Rafe. The Hungry Tigress: Buddhist Legends and Jataka Tales. Parallax, 1990.
------. Mysterious Tales of Japan. Putnam, 1993.
Masterson, Elizabeth. Games for the Very Young. American Heritage, 1969.
Mayo, Margaret. Mythical Birds and Beasts of Many Lands. Dutton, 1997.
------. Magical Tales from Many Lands. Dutton, 1995.
Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Powers, Effie. Bag O' Tales. Dutton, 1934
Reneaux, J. J. Cajun Folktales. August House,1992.
------. Haunted Bayou and Other Cajun Ghost Stories. August House, 1994.
------. How Animals Saved the People: Animal Tales from the South. HarperCollins, 2001.
Rockwell, Anne. The Old Woman and Her Pig. Crowell, 1979.
------. The Three Bears and Fifteen Other Stories. Crowell, 1979.
Rugoff, Milton. Harvest of World Folktales. Viking, 1949.
Sherman, Josepha. Trickster Tales: Forty Folk Stories from Around the World. August House, 1996.
Sutherland, Zena and Myra Cohn Livingston. The Scott Foresman Anthology of Children's Literature. Scott Foresman, 1984.
Tashjian, Virginia. Juba This and Juba That. Little, Brown, 1969; 1995.
------. With a Deep Sea Smile. Little, Brown. 1974.
Thompson, Stith. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Indiana University Press, 1968.
Williamson, Duncan. The Broonie, Silkies & Fairies: Travellers' Tales of the Other World. Harmony Books, 1987.
------. Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children. Harmony Books, 1983.
------. Tales of the Seal People: Scottish Folk Tales. Interlink, 1998.
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales From Around the World. Pantheon, 1986.
------. Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from Around the World. Penguin, 1999.
------. Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folk Tales for Mothers and Daughters to Share. Viking, 2000.
