A Storytelling Audio Collection for the Classroom

Storytelling Audio Anthologies
Many Voices: Assorted Storytelling Artists
Heather Forest Storytelling Recordings

A Classroom listening library can include storytelling tapes. Currently, many storytelling artists have recorded audiotapes of their repertoires. To encourage listening skills, create a listening center in the classroom for students to visit and enjoy a tale in privacy with earphones or have a class time when everyone listens to recordings together.

Some Start-up Suggestions
Listening to storytelling anthologies that offer a sampling of storytelling artists is an enjoyable way for students to discover their favorite types of tellers and tales. The stories on the following anthology recordings are short and effective. Add audio recordings of individual artists to the listening library for further student exploration of particular tellers or styles.

Storytelling Anthologies from the National Storytelling Festival

• Performances Recorded Live:   Assorted Nationally Acclaimed Artists
  
• A Storytelling Treasury:   Tales Told at the 20th National Storytelling Festival (Five Tapes)
  
• Graveyard Tales
  
• Tales Of Humor & Wit
  
• Tales Of Fools and Wise Folk
  
• Homespun Tales
  
• Best-Loved Tales Told at the National Festival Vol. 1
  
• Best-Loved Tales Told at the National Festival Vol. 2
  

National Storytelling Press
PO Box 309
Jonesborough, TN 37659
1-800-525-4514

Many Voices:   A List of Favorite Storytelling Recordings for the Classroom
(for Young Adults Grades 4 and Up)

Here are examples of storytelling artists with a wide range of storytelling styles to inspire students to develop their own approach to storytelling.
Selected by Heather Forest

Donald Davis
Christmas At Grandma's
Listening For The Crack Of Dawn
Miss Daisy
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203

Jackie Torrence
Country Characters
Tales For Scary Times
Mountain Magic: Jack Tales 1
Earwig Music Company
1818 W. Pratt Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60626

Carol Birch
Careful What You Wish For
Happily Ever After Love Stories: More Or Less
Carol Birch
PO Box 32
Southbury, CT 06488

Heather Forest
Songspinner
Tales Of Womenfolk
Eye Of The Beholder
Story Arts
PO Box 354
Huntington, NY 11743

Derek Burrows
Once Upon A Time Tales From The Bahamas
Yellow Moon Press
PO Box 381316
Cambridge, MA 02230

Rosalind Hinman
Three Hairs From The Devil's Beard
American Melody
PO Box 270
Gullford, CT 06437

Dovie Thomason
Wopila: A Giveaway
Yellow Moon Press
PO Box 381316
Cambridge, MA 02230

Rafe Martin
Ghostly Tales Of Japan
Yellow Moon Press
PO Box 381316
Cambridge, MA 02230

Syd Lieberman
Joseph The Tailor and Other Jewish Tales
The Tell Tale Heart
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203

Elizabeth Ellis
Like Meat Loves Salt
I Will Not Talk
New Moon Rising
PO Box 64882
Dallas, TX 75206

David Holt
Hairy Man
Mostly Ghostly Stories
High Windy Audio
PO Box 553
Fairview, NC 28730

Jay O'Callahan
The Little Dragon and Other Stories
The Herring Shed
Village Heroes
Jay O'Callahan
PO Box 1054
Marshfield, MA 02050

Video Tape: A Master Class with Jay O'Callahan
Vinyard Video Production
Box 370
West Tisbury, MA 02575
800-664-6119

Lynn Moroney
The Feather Moon
Moroney
1944 NW 20th
Oklahoma City, OK 73106

Barbara McBride Smith
Greek Or Whut?
McBride Smith
704 N.Dryden Circle
Stillwater, OK 74075

Carmen Deedy
Raised Cuban In Decatur, Georgia
Peachtree Publishers
494 Armour Circle NE
Atlanta, GA 30324

Susan Klein
Through a Ruby Window
Ruby Window Productions
PO Box 214
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557

Diane Ferlatte
Favorite Stories
Diane Ferlatte
6531 Chabot Rd.
Oakland, CA 94618

Maggie Peirce
Maggie Peirce Live
Yellow Moon Press
PO Box 381316
Cambridge, MA 02230

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