Telling Tales: A Book About Story and Storytelling [Paperback]

Joseph Bruchac (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books (J) (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0152012680
• ISBN-13: 978-0152012687
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,930,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joseph Bruchac is a highly acclaimed Abenaki children's book author, poet, novelist and storyteller, as well as a scholar of Native American culture. Coauthor with Michael Caduto of the bestselling Keepers of the Earth series, Bruchac's poems, articles and stories have appeared in over 500 publications, from Akwesasne Notes and American Poetry Review to National Geographic and Parabola. He has authored more than 50 books for adults and children. For more information about Joseph, please visit his website www.josephbruchac.com.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enriching Your Life Through Storytelling, September 6, 2003

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F. Hamilton "[e-mail]" (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tell Me a Tale: A Book about Storytelling (Hardcover)

Bruchac's passion for storytelling reverberates through this guide aimed primarily at young people. Bruchac organizes his book around a "circle of learning" that he deems integral to life. The four components of his circle are listening, observing, remembering, and sharing. He includes activities to help people nurture each of these skills and includes fourteen stories, more than half of them from the Native American tradition. Bruchac, whose voice quietly exudes wisdom, emphasizes the importance of knowing stories from one's own family, heritage, locale, and life.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Full of wisdom, May 6, 2009

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A. K. Beltaine "UU Seminary Student" (Ithaca, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tell Me a Tale: A Book about Storytelling (Hardcover)

Written for the teen-age audience this will also be rewarding for the adult wishing to expand their horizons. Includes personal perspectives and stories from the author and wide range of exercises for the reader to perform. Many were exercises that I have done in the past (at age 45, I've done a few things) but many were very rewarding experiences.