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There are 33 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781910989548 | ISBN 10: 1910989541
In over thirty essays, written over twenty years, one of the world’s great storytellers meditates on storytelling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781256671 | ISBN 10: 1781256675
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth rec ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786693266 | ISBN 10: 1786693267
Reading a story to another person creates a bond between two people. It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the practice was once a common pleasure for adults too. The time has come to rediscover it. This simple yet powerful ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750987554 | ISBN 10: 0750987553
Where do stories come from, and how do we come to know them?
Daughters listen with wonder to their grandmothers’ tales. Journalists have their trusted sources. Writers of storybooks draw unconsciously from the works of their predecessors. ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786693259 | ISBN 10: 1786693259
Reading a story to another person creates a bond between two people. It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the practice was once a common pleasure for adults too. The time has come to rediscover it. This simple yet powerful ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781558619296 | ISBN 10: 1558619291
With tales from Japan, Norway, Scotland, and Sudan, Tatterhood brings readers twelve folk tales — and twelve women whose cunning, hard work, and physical strength are at the center of the story.  Three women teach a strong man how to wrestle, a gi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784740078 | ISBN 10: 1784740071
"O tell me the truth about love."(W.H. Auden)
Many of the most popular works in the English language celebrate love in all its forms: that heady first flush, the agony of heartbreak, joyful reunions, the love of a parent for a child... And wha ... more
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£3.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781905570768 | ISBN 10: 1905570767
‘In every moment, we are part of the infinite stories that the universe is telling us and that we are telling the universe.’
Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141395043 | ISBN 10: 0141395044
On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west ... more
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£0.80 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398167 | ISBN 10: 0141398167
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'
Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'
Introducing Little Black ... more
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£0.80 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141397863 | ISBN 10: 0141397861
'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences.
Introducing ... more
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£0.80 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398044 | ISBN 10: 0141398043
'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels'
Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the hearts of children and adults for their be ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846689901 | ISBN 10: 1846689902
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.
Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908577443 | ISBN 10: 1908577444
Brunt Boggart is a tapestry of folktales, myths and storytelling. The connecting thread follows Greychild, abandoned in the woods by his mother. Mistaken for a wolf, he is taken to Brunt Boggart, a village of primal energies where people live close t ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571314270 | ISBN 10: 0571314279
Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none more so than the youngest, whose name was Beauty.
Disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782064725 | ISBN 10: 1782064729
Two hundred years ago two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, collected together a large selection of folk and fairy tales and published them as Kinder - und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales). So successful was the first collection of 88 stories ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781571746979 | ISBN 10: 1571746978
Drawn from the archives of major Zen centers in America and interviews with some of the most seminal figures of American Zen, including Philip Kapleau, Bernie Glassman, Gary Snyder, and Walter Nowick, One Bird, One Stone presents the notable encounte ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846972461 | ISBN 10: 1846972469
In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching post. She was introduced to Haile Selassie, made a pilgrimage across the mountains on foot to the ancient city of Lalibela, hitched a ride on an oil tank ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141442228 | ISBN 10: 0141442220
In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.
From th ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780863159237 | ISBN 10: 0863159230
This practical and inspirational book introduces readers to the value of storytelling throughout life, discussing the importance of traditional tales, and how they can transform our lives from childhood through to old age.
Children develop ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781907773266 | ISBN 10: 1907773266
From village storytellers to nineteenth-century serialisations, from pub anecdotes to dramatic monologues, storytelling is an enduring art form. This collection of short stories reconnects storytelling with its oral and performative roots. There are ... more
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£12.50 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781591811725 | ISBN 10: 1591811724
Our Secret Territory is composed of revelations from the life of a world famous storyteller including extensive travel and projects spanning thirty years. It helps readers understand the power of storytelling as a profound and unique art form combini ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780701185633 | ISBN 10: 0701185635
We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health and happiness benefits. It stimulates thought an ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199537372 | ISBN 10: 0199537372
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often parado ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099588115 | ISBN 10: 0099588110
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. "Angela Carter has extended the ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781843107453 | ISBN 10: 1843107457
Molly Salans has been a storyteller for many years, visiting children in deprived areas who have depression, ADHD and behavioural problems caused by poverty, absent fathers, depressed mothers, run-down schools and violence. Describing her therapy ses ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781843100638 | ISBN 10: 1843100630
Children who experience difficult life events (for example, fostering, long-term illness or the traumatic death of a close adult) may need help in forming and expressing narrations of their experiences, which in turn aid the development of their iden ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781907359262 | ISBN 10: 1907359265
Telling stories awakens wonder and creates special occasions with children, whether it is bedtime, around the fire or on rainy days. Encouraging you to spin golden tales, Nancy Mellon shows how you can become a confident storyteller and enrich your f ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780140288322 | ISBN 10: 0140288325
Zen Buddhism conveys its profound truths through epigrams, parable and brief enigmatic and often amusing stories of the masters.
In addition to 101 Zen Stories, this volume contains 'The Gateless Gate', a collection of koans or puzzles and ... more
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£12.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780399525469 | ISBN 10: 0399525467
In the Americas, the oral tradition has created one of the oldest surviving bodies of literature on earth. Native American storytelling, in particular, stands out for its distinctive honoring of womanly power and the female forces of the universe.
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£14.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780571190997 | ISBN 10: 0571190995
A new book by the author of Impro, the classic text on improvisation using techniques which specialise in releasing an individual's potential within the context of group work. ... more
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£1.99 paperback (1993) - ISBN 13: 9781853261015 | ISBN 10: 1853261017
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds.
This selection of their folk tales was ... more
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£16.95 paperback (1991) - ISBN 13: 9780674080317 | ISBN 10: 0674080319
How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fan ... more
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