Saturday, December 28, 2013

Slow and Steady: Stor e Telling October November December 2012

Hare and Tortoise
Children's Illustrations, 1880
I have penned the Stor E Telling column since January of 2002 and the articles from 2002-2006 are the publications page of my website found here http://tinyurl.com/llnn47y . I will be adding the columns from 2007 to 2012 to that page as well. However, I am in the process of checking what link URL's have changed or are now defunct. It is a time consuming process so I am taking the “slow and steady” approach via Aesop and will post the individual columns on my blog for now.

I will not be adding current columns until the following year, so if you want immediate access to the newest websites, consider becoming a member of the National Storytelling Network. Please feel free to comment on the blog and let me know if you find this useful.

October November December 2012                                                                       

Godfather Death – German
http://tinyurl.com/6pb84vy

The Red King and the Witch - Romanian
http://tinyurl.com/7re2vu7

Man’s First Grief – Inuit
http://tinyurl.com/82w4qht

Why Death is Like a Banana Tree – Madagascar
http://spiritoftrees.org/why-death-is-like-the-banana-tree

The Death of a Child – Six stories collected by D. L. Ashliman.   http://tinyurl.com/767y4tw

From the Learning to Give website.

Tiggak - Inuit
http://tinyurl.com/d2k96co

The Old Woman Who Was Kind to Insects - Inuit
http://tinyurl.com/c33uhrq

Learning to Give - Lesson plan to complement the two folktales above for grades 9-12.
http://tinyurl.com/cgu99td

Story-Lovers.com - Stories to help deal with grief and loss.
http://www.story-lovers.com/listsgriefstories.html

The Healing Story Alliance – This is one of the special interest groups of the National Storytelling Network. Recently, they have updated their website and added a number of new, valuable resources.
http://healingstory.org/rrr/resources


Miscellaneous Resources

Anecdote - A storytelling site from Australia offering a list of stories on dozens of topics.
My thanks to storyteller Cathryn Wellner for passing this site along.
Creative Commons – “A nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.”
http://creativecommons.org/

Embracing the Child – The perfect website when you are searching for age appropriate books. It offers a list of the Newbery, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Award winning books, suggestions based on themes such as fairytales and science, lesson plans and more.
http://www.embracingthechild.org/index.html

Ethiopian FolktalesOver 200 folktales “…many of which had never before been written down or translated into English. You can also listen to many of the original recordings in the voices of the narrators…” My thanks to Kit Rogers in the National Storytelling Network’s office for passing this website along.
http://www.ethiopianfolktales.com/

Full Books.com – Thousands of full text online books. The books are arranged by alphabetically by title and there is a Google search bar available.
http://www.fullbooks.com/

Public Domain Folktales, Fairytales, Myths and Legends – Recently I offered my fifth listing of public domain story collections. You will find a wide variety of stories from many cultures: Portugal, Poland, South Africa, Italy and more.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2012/07/public-domain-v-folktales-fairytales.html

Southern Thailand FolktalesSeven stories collected by university students in Thailand.
http://www.escati.com/7-southern-thailand-folk-tales/

Stories4u – A wide range of stories from India, fairy tales, folktales, animal Tales, Panchatantra, myths and legends. Settle in, you will be reading, laughing and learning for quite awhile.
http://stories4u.50webs.com/main.htm

Tis the Season – Christmas Stories from Around the WorldThe holiday season is upon us. Here are some stories to celebrate Christmas.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2011/11/tis-season-christmas-stories-from.html

Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches – A collaborative project of the BBC Scotland, School of Scottish Studies (University of Edinburgh) and the National Trust offering thousands of hours of Gaelic and Scots recordings. The project includes folklore, songs, music, history, poetry, traditions, stories and other information. A true treasure!
http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/

World of Stories – From the United Kingdom, a growing collection of short stories from around the world that include retold traditional tales and new short stories, available in  twenty-one  languages. The stories may be read and listened to online or downloaded for free. 
My thanks to Kate Dudding for sharing this site.
http://www.worldstories.org.uk/

And if you missed any of the previous “Slow and Steady…” blog posts here are the links to the series so far.

2007


2008

Summer 2008
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/08/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_25.html
Fall 2008
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/09/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html

2009


 2010

July August 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-july.html
September October 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling.html
November December 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html

2011

April May 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-april.html 
July August 2011
September October 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling.html
November December 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-november.html

2012

January, February, March 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-january.html
April May 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-april.html
June July 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-june.html
August September 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-august.html


Karen Chace 2013 ©

This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.

Friday, December 27, 2013

Slow and Steady: Stor e Telling August September 2012

Hare and Tortoise
Children's Illustrations, 1880
I have penned the Stor E Telling column since January of 2002 and the articles from 2002-2006 are the publications page of my website found here http://tinyurl.com/llnn47y . I will be adding the columns from 2007 to 2012 to that page as well. However, I am in the process of checking what link URL's have changed or are now defunct. It is a time consuming process so I am taking the “slow and steady” approach via Aesop and will post the individual columns on my blog for now.

I will not be adding current columns until the following year, so if you want immediate access to the newest websites, consider becoming a member of the National Storytelling Network. Please feel free to comment on the blog and let me know if you find this useful.

August September 2012       
                                                      
Below are some sites I researched for a blog post in August 2011, which complement this issue’s theme. For the complete list of resources go to
http://tinyurl.com/7slhh6y .

A Guide for Educators – Bullying, It’s Not Just Child’s Play from the University of Pennsylvania. Although this information was compiled and published in 2002 there is still useful information for educators and administrators.
http://tinyurl.com/85ugn69

Anti-Bias Lesson Plans and Resources for K-12 Educators: Words That Heal – Using Children’s Literature to Address Bullying - A good place to start if you are planning a program or lesson on anti-bullying. The site offers discussion guides, extension plans statistics and an annotated bibliography of children’s fiction.
http://tinyurl.com/66kyjp

COPS – Center for Problem-Oriented Policing by Rana Sampson – Bullying in Schools http://tinyurl.com/88h8wh7

Miscellaneous sites to whet your storytelling appetite.

Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Hall Chamberlain, 1888 - The Ainu are an ethnic minority in Japan, living primarily on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaidō.
http://tinyurl.com/899tr6s

English Fairy Tales Folklore and Legends, 1904; a collection of English, Scottish, and Irish folk-lore tales for the young.
http://tinyurl.com/6ravqrl 
 
Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane, 1885. In his preface Crane states, “The stories which, with but few exceptions…are given exactly as they were taken down from the mouths of the people.”  Within you will find fairy tales, legends, ghost stories and more.
http://tinyurl.com/cmvuuh8
 
Popular Tales of the West Highlands by J.F. Campbell, 1890. This link will lead you to Volume I but at the top of the page you will note links for volumes II, III and IV.
http://tinyurl.com/cr5363u

Round About Rambles by Frank StocktonWe are off on our rambles…we shall explore streets and houses that have been buried for centuries.” Within these pages you will discover sixty nine stories brought to you by way of 1910. Read about The Bootblack’s Dog, A Battle on Stilts, The Light in the Castle and more.
http://tinyurl.com/c5csepm

T
ales of Giants from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eells, 1918. Beast slayers, wicked giants and beautiful princesses’ await.
http://tinyurl.com/crm7b8v

Twenty-four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls by Anna Cogswell Tyler, 1921. A lovely collection of folktales, Christmas stories, Greek legends and Halloween tales to delight storytellers and children alike. http://tinyurl.com/bt52slm

Wonder Tales from Scottish Myths and Legends by Donald Alexander Mackenzie, 1917.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tsm/index.htm

School is just around the corner and I have categorized my curriculum resources on a variety of themes from my blog posts and newsletters from 2008 through October 2011. I hope they will add some spice to your storytelling in and beyond the classroom this year.

Fun in the Classroom with Folktales and Fairytales
http://tinyurl.com/d6hlk45

School Daze, School Daze
http://tinyurl.com/4xsaw5k

School Daze, School Daze II
http://tinyurl.com/7evm83j

Two Roads Diverged in the Woods…Public Domain and Copyright Resources.

The Public Domain Review: Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online
http://publicdomainreview.org/guide-to-finding-interesting-public-domain-works-online/
My thanks to Canadian storyteller Donna Dudinsky for sharing this site.

Copyright – To Steal or Not to Steal…Is That Really a Question?
Links to a blog post with copyright resources I shared in February of 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/bmn3jx8

And if you missed any of the previous “Slow and Steady…” blog posts here are the links to the series so far.

2007


2008

Summer 2008
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/08/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_25.html
Fall 2008
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/09/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html

 
2009


2010

July August 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-july.html
September October 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling.html
November December 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html

2011

April May 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-april.html 
July August 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-july.html
September October 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling.html
November December 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-november.html

2012

January, February, March 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-january.html
April May 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-april.html
June July 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-june.html

 

Karen Chace 2013 ©

This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Weight of a Snowflake

The Princess and the Dove
by
Edmund Dulac, 1922

To all of my family, friends and colleagues near and far, thank you for enriching my life. I wish you all light, love and a very joyous holiday.

I offer you a story for the season; may it guide our paths in the coming year.

The Weight of a Snowflake
~ Anon


"Tell me the weight of a snowflake." A mouse asked a wild dove. 


"Nothing more than nothing," the dove answered. 

"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the mouse said. "I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow, not heavily, not a raging blizzard, no just like in a dream without any violence. Since I had time, I counted the snowflakes setting on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952, when the next snowflake dropped onto the branch- "nothing more than nothing" as you say-the branch broke off."

Having said that the mouse went away. 
 
The dove, thought about the meaning of the story for a while and finally said to herself, "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come about in this world."



Karen Chace 2013 ©
This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.

 

Monday, December 23, 2013

Slow and Steady: Stor e Telling June July 2012

Hare and Tortoise
Children's Illustrations, 1880
I have penned the Stor E Telling column since January of 2002 and the articles from 2002-2006 are the publications page of my website found here http://tinyurl.com/llnn47y . I will be adding the columns from 2007 to 2012 to that page as well. However, I am in the process of checking what link URL's have changed or are now defunct. It is a time consuming process so I am taking the “slow and steady” approach via Aesop and will post the individual columns on my blog for now.

I will not be adding current columns until the following year, so if you want immediate access to the newest websites, consider becoming a member of the National Storytelling Network. Please feel free to comment on the blog and let me know if you find this useful.

June July 2012                                                                                                                                   

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland - From 1902 a wonderful antique book full of tales and information by Lady Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde.
http://tinyurl.com/7grhxfo

The Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats in 1893; he writes in the forward, “I have invented nothing but my own comments and one or two deceitful sentences that may keep some poor storytellers discourse with the devils and the angels….”
http://tinyurl.com/5yf4qz

Folk and Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W.B. Yeats, 1890: Fairies, Changelings, Pooka’s, Merrows and more.
http://tinyurl.com/bmtw6o

In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk lore by Seumas MacManus and Pamela Colman Smith, 1899. 
http://tinyurl.com/p7onf

Irish Fairy Tales - Brought to you by James Stephens all the way from 1920; beginning with The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill and ending with Mongan’s Frenzy.
http://tinyurl.com/co6kp2h

Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama – An astonishing collection of resources are found here, including specific works from famous Irish writers.
http://tinyurl.com/45lhl

Legends and Stories of Ireland by Samuel Lover, 1831, 1834 – Within these pages kings, fools, bishops and devils are ready to delight.
http://tinyurl.com/d7gs2x8

Sláinte mhaith! (Good health)  Visit my blog post to find Celtic stories for adults and children alike, along with some printables and a craft to share.
http://tinyurl.com/y85cgdm

Three articles to expand your knowledge of Irish literature.

A Guide to Irish Folktales by Marie McKewon
http://tinyurl.com/c9p69cy

Celtic Mythology: Myths of the Ancient World by Marie McKewon
http://tinyurl.com/7559er7

Forgotten Fairies of Irish Folklore by Marie McKeown
http://tinyurl.com/7qkh5fg

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Celebrate the special men in your life with story!

Folktales, Fathers and Fun
http://tinyurl.com/cyxgk4l

In Poland, the Summer Solstice is celebrated on June 23.  The most popular event in Krakow is called Wianki, when young girls throw wreaths into the Baltic Sea.  Here are some stories from Poland to help you join in the celebration.



Gypsy Folktales by Francis Hindes Groome chapter six is dedicated to Polish-Gypsy Stories.
http://tinyurl.com/74gufue

The Legend of Wanda
http://tinyurl.com/d9yyrh6

The Spellbook in the Forbidden Room
http://tinyurl.com/7yoauv3

The Three Princesses
http://tinyurl.com/6vqguk9

Ramadan in 2012 will begin on Saturday, July 21 and will continue for 30 days until the end of Ramadan on Sunday, August 19. * The Islamic calendar is lunar and the days begin at sunset, so there may be one-day error depending on when the New Moon is first seen. Ramadan is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and submissiveness to God. Below are some stories to celebrate Ramadan.

Patience

Helping Young Plants Grow - Taiwan
http://tinyurl.com/d978wpc

The Hidden One - Native American
http://tinyurl.com/c8ms28q

Patience-Stone and Patience-Knife – Turkey
http://tinyurl.com/c5yzxeo

The Tiger’s Whisker Korea
http://tinyurl.com/c4yomkn

Humility

Forty Fortunes Iran
http://tinyurl.com/bwbp9sm

The Magic Horse - Iran
http://tinyurl.com/2utybbx

The Magic of Muskil Gusha - Iran
http://tinyurl.com/cw7lu8s

Poverty and Humility Lead to Heaven - Germany
http://tinyurl.com/6m4vj3l

Wisdom Commons.org - Eight tales of humility from around the world.
http://tinyurl.com/cyl8cnt

Spirituality

The Singing Fir Tree - Switzerland
http://www.fairytalechannel.org/2008/03/singing-fir-tree.html

 

And if you missed any of the previous “Slow and Steady…” blog posts here are the links to the series so far.

2007


2008

Summer 2008
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/08/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_25.html
Fall 2008
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/09/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html

 
2009


 2010

July August 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-july.html
September October 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling.html
November December 2010
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html

2011

April May 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/11/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-april.html 
July August 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-july.html
September October 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling.html
November December 2011
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-november.html

2012

January, February, March 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-january.html
April May 2012
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/slow-and-steady-stor-e-telling-april.html

 

Karen Chace 2013 ©

This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.