Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that creates and strengthens a sense of community for students, teachers and parents while extolling storytelling as animation, subversion, and self-discovery.
Introduction; Part 1 Setting the Scene with Fairy Tales; Chapter 1 The Initial Encounter; Chapter 2 Mixing It Up with Salad Games and Acrostics; Chapter 3 Playing with Fortune; Chapter 4 In Celebration of Peace; Part 2 Exploring Genres; Chapter 5 The Wisdom of the Beasts; Chapter 6 Paying the Piper, or How Legends Lead People On; Chapter 7 Mythmaking; Chapter 8 Tall Tales; Chapter 9 Somewhere over the Rainbow; Chapter 10 Strange Encounters with Science Fiction; Chapter 11 New Perspectives through Creative Dramatics and Video; Part 3 Storytelling in Context; Chapter 12 On the Use and Abuse of Storytelling;
