Handmade Tales: Stories to Make and Take

by Dianne de Las Casas

Targeted for elementary teachers, librarians, and drama teachers, Handmade Tales offers more than 25 original tales from around the world that use hands as an active way to tell the stories.

112 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2007

About the author

Dianne de Las Casas was an award-winning author, storyteller, and founder of Picture Book Month. Her performances, dubbed “revved-up storytelling” were full of energetic audience participation. The author of 24 books, Dianne was the International Reading Association LEADER 2014 Poet Laureate, and the 2014 recipient of the Ann Martin Book Mark award. Her children’s titles include The Cajun Cornbread Boy, There’s a Dragon in the Library, The Little “Read” Hen, The House That Santa Built, and Cinderellaphant. She was also the mom of Kid Chef Eliana, a 14-year-old award-winning chef, cookbook author, and radio show host. Visit her website at diannedelascasas.com. Visit Picture Book Month at PictureBookMonth.com. Twitter & Instagram: @AuthorDianneDLC Facebook: fanofdianne

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book but it literally is more geared towards a classroom or homeschool opportunity as almost all of the crafts are geared towards ONE child, not a group....the activities are simple enough that they only take about 20 minutes or so to do, but there were none that really stood out to me...I know it doesn't take a lot to impress or instill creativity within a child, but SERIOUSLY....

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clever stories to tell with simple props except I would never be able to remember them all - which is why I am a book reader and not a professional storyteller (poor memory!). However, I could see someone using this book for storytime work.

[Debbie Hoskins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the book I would want to write, except I want to do my own illustrations. A lot of the stories are standard children's librarian stuff, like sniggle and snaggle, but I want to have all these stories be part of my repertoire.