Creating a Family Storytelling Tradition

by Robin Moore

Creating a Family Storytelling Tradition focuses on telling stories at home with the family. Moore guides the reader through a series of voyages that help assemble a storyteller's tool kit from inner (memory, imagination, and visualization) and outer (voice, gesture, and movement) tools.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 1991

About the author

Robin Moore has made his living as an children's book author and traveling storyteller for more than thirty years. He grew up in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, where his Scots-Irish ancestors have lived for more than 200 years. He served as a combat soldier in Vietnam, earned a Journalism Degree from Pennsylvania State University and worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor. He was written more than a dozen books, published by the world's largest publishers and was named Author of the Year by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. He was presented more than 5,000 Storytelling programs and workshops and has told stories to more than one million people. He was named National Storyteller of the Year. Robin holds a Masters Degree in Oral Traditions and serves on the faculty of The Graduate Institute.

Reviews

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book to help you practice storytelling....with ideas to really internalize them. I personally didn't want to take the time to go through all the exercises. So I skimmed through it. But I liked some of the ideas. I also really liked the history timerope idea.