ABSTRACT

Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that creates and strengthens a sense of community for students, teachers and parents while extolling storytelling as animation, subversion, and self-discovery.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

Storytelling in Schools

part |72 pages

Setting the Scene with Fairy Tales

chapter 1|13 pages

The Initial Encounter

Little Red Riding Hood

chapter 2|20 pages

Mixing It Up with Salad Games and Acrostics

The Frog King and Cinderella

chapter 3|19 pages

Playing with Fortune

Rumpelstiltskin and Spinning Tales

chapter 4|16 pages

In Celebration of Peace

Soldiers, Strong Men, and Knights

part |123 pages

Exploring Genres

chapter 5|23 pages

The Wisdom of the Beasts

Animal Tales and Fables

chapter 7|14 pages

Mythmaking

chapter 8|13 pages

Tall Tales

chapter 9|19 pages

Somewhere over the Rainbow

Utopia and Wishing Tales

chapter 10|16 pages

Strange Encounters with Science Fiction

part |9 pages

Storytelling in Context

chapter 12|7 pages

On the Use and Abuse of Storytelling