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Holiday Stories All Year Round Violet Teresa deBarba Miller

Holiday Stories All Year Round By Violet Teresa deBarba Miller

Holiday Stories All Year Round by Violet Teresa deBarba Miller


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Share stories about popular holidays, from New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and President's Day, to Indian Heritage Month, Christmas, and Kwanzaa with stories from some of our most renowned and beloved storytellers-Laura Simms, Diane Wolkstein, Ruth Stotter, Joseph Bruchac, Margaret Read MacDonald, and many others.

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Holiday Stories All Year Round: Audience Participation Stories and More by Violet Teresa deBarba Miller

Share stories about popular holidays, from New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and President's Day, to Indian Heritage Month, Christmas, and Kwanzaa with stories from some of our most renowned and beloved storytellers-Laura Simms, Diane Wolkstein, Ruth Stotter, Joseph Bruchac, Margaret Read MacDonald, and many others. These stories, presented chronologically according to the holidays, come with instructions for how to get your audience involved, plus reading connections, activity ideas and holiday background information. This collection will help educators, librarians, and storytellers create holiday-based story programs from January to December; and it is a wonderful resource for enhancing learning units, filling in empty moments, and loosening up an audience. Most of all, it gives you some great ways to share important times together.

Holiday Stories All Year Round Reviews

The 30 stories contained in this volume include contributions from such luminaries as Diane Wolkstein, Peninnah Schram, Laura Simms, and Joseph Bruchac, as well as others who have devoted their lives to bringing story to others through the powerful medium of oral narration. The selections themselves cover a broad range of holidays, including those that might be expected-New Year's Day, the Fourth of July, etc.-as well as lesser-known celebrations, such as the Thai New Year. Ways for the audience to participate in the tellings are included with each tale, with uneven success. A stirring refrain or even a brief brainstorming session may indeed provide the kind of 'mutual ownership' Miller describes in her introduction, but random questions interjected into a story often serve only to interrupt the narrative flow or break a mood that otherwise might have been created. There are a great many selections about peace, a good thing in and of itself, but most of them are so message driven that they don't always stand as stories. There is useful background information at the end of each tale, but suggestions for Internet sites rely heavily on Wikipedia. Activities suggested are unexceptional, often relying on mundane cut and paste. Still, storytellers in need of material specifically related to holidays should find sufficient fodder here to warrant purchase. - School Library Journal

About Violet Teresa deBarba Miller

Violet Teresa deBarba Miller tells stories as Teresa Miller. She compiled Joining In: An Anthology of Audience Participation Stories and How to Tell Them, with assistance from Anne Pellowski, edited by Norma Livo, Introduction by Laura Simms.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Laura Simms Introduction January Horace the Horrible (New Year's Day) by Arlean Hale Lambert A Different Kind of New Year's Celebration: Hogmanay (New Year's Day) by Norma McKissick Livo The Caterpillar Blues (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) by Linda Goss and Gretchen Shannon February The Great Groundhog-Day Get Together (Groundhog's Day) by Larry Johnson and Elaine Wynne Oni Wa Soto (Setsubon, Japanese New Year) by Cathy Spagnoli White Wave (Valentine's Day) by Diane Wolkstein March The Musical Leprechaun and St. Patrick (St. Patrick's Day) by Gail N. Herman April The Legend of Songkran (Thai New Year) by Margaret Read MacDonald and Supaporn Vathanaprida A Blessing in Disguise (Passover) by Peninnah Schram The Earth Dreamers (Earth Day) by Regina Ress Why the Evergreens Keep their Leaves in Winter (Arbor Day) by Ruth Stotter May The Garden Rainbow (May Day) by Linda Marchisio Kelly's Memorial Day Parade (Memorial Day) by V.J. Richey The Buddha's Birthday in Thailand (Buddha's Birthday) by Wajuppa Tossa June The Freedom Flag (Flag Day) by Gay Merrill Gross July Fourth of July Holiday (Fourth of July) by Teresa Miller & Andrea Bielecki September Charity (Ramadan) by Cathy Spagnoli El Grito de Dolores (Cry of the City of Dolores) (Mexican Independence Day) by Norma Cantu The Constitution Jive (National Constitution Day) by Linda Marchisio The Boy Who Called the King a Fool (International Peace Day) by Ruthilde Kronberg October The Magic Paint Box (United Nations Day) by Gerald Fierst The Halloween Pumpkin (Halloween) by Stephanie Mita November Gluskonba and the Maple Tree (American Indian Heritage Month) by Joseph Bruchac Eleven Bells (Veterans Day) by Larry Johnson Rabbit, Bobcat, and the Wild Turkeys (Thanksgiving Day) by Fran Stallings December Reisele's Hannukah Dream (Hannukah) by Ruthilde Kronberg Silent Night 1914, or the Peace Message of Christmas (Christmas Eve) by Charles David Kleymeyer How the Squirrel Got Its Stripes (Christmas Day) by Laura Simms Feasts-a-Plenty (Kwanzaa) by Kathy Culmer Partial Glossary by Ruth Stotter Bibliography of Holiday Books

Additional information

CIN1591586755G
9781591586753
1591586755
Holiday Stories All Year Round: Audience Participation Stories and More by Violet Teresa deBarba Miller
Used - Good
Paperback
ABC-CLIO
2008-10-30
256
Winner of 2010 Storytelling World Award - Winner, Storytelling Collection 2009 (United States)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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