Why Storytellers Lie , an Atlantic Monthly piece by Maura Kelly, highlights a new book by Jonathan Gotschall, called The Storytelling Anima...

Go to Sleep, Gecko! a Balinese folktale retold by Margaret Read MacDonald, has a message that is oft-quoted in our house: "Some things...

Why has it taken me so long to acquire a copy of Judy Sierra's The Flannel Board Storytelling Book ? Her stories are easy to tell and th...

I wrote a guest blog post on storytelling as part of the "Discovering Waldorf" series in The Magic Onions . You may find it here: ...

This blog post was written for Share a Story, Shape a Future 's Blog Literacy Tour 2010 and is part of day two of the tour by The Book C...

[Note to those reading this in RSS readers: this is the real blog post.] Five years ago, I started a storytelling blog. My daughter was no...

I'm so pleased that musical storyteller Bill Harley is coming to this part of the country. On Saturday, February 20, Harley will play a...

Versant Media created my promotional storytelling video and it's finally available for you to view! Here it is:

Last Tuesday, I attended the local SCBWI monthly meeting to hear the witty, warm poet and social-media maven Gregory Pinkus of GottaBook an...

Since reality television shows are prevalent in US culture, I’ve started some ideas for a program about competing storytellers. It’s called ...

Brer Possum’s Dilemma is an African-American folktale retold by Jackie Torrence. If you click on the link, you may read the story in its en...

I know, it's Friday. Between having my daughter with me all day long until French camp begins next week and preparing songs for French c...

Amish Guitar writes about how he spent Father's Day with his father. By the time I read the last paragraph, I had tears in my eyes: Wha...

A few weeks ago, Lucia wanted me to tell her a sad story. I spun out a story of a couple who wanted a child, couldn't have a child, and ...

Happy May Day! Alkelda is open for business. I've been working hard on getting the shop ready, and now I'm going to take a deep bre...

We finally have winners of the Children's Book Sequels contest ! The fabulous Minh Le and I will announce them next week, along with ho...

A month ago, I heard fellow storyteller Aarene Storms tell Richard Kennedy's "Come Again in the Spring" on her Global Griot S...

Photo by Mamaroots. Used with permission. During a recent search for "Waldorf" and "nature table" on Etsy.com, I found S...

"Snegurochka" plate based on art by Boris Zworykin My daughter's assistant-kindergarten teacher told the story of The Snow ...

I'm working on some new stories and songs for my repertoire. One story is a variation of the Nasreddin/Nasr-ed-din Khoja story called ...