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Desperate to be believed about Rairarubia, Molly recruits her best frind and confidante, Netty Parmet, to accompany her there and take part in the continuing story. Together, the girls learn invaluable lessons in loyalty and truthfulness, while helping Romey and Sam in their hour of greatest need.

Maybe it's because his mother was a teacher. Or maybe it's because he has spent most of his life in classrooms as a wide-eyed first grader, a naA_ve college student, a seminarian, and now as a visiting writer in residencies across the country. But there's something about school that infuses the work of Donald Davis. Collected here are Davis's all-time favorite school stories. Whether we're traveling around the world with Miss Daisy, the fourth...

Anyone who has watched a master storyteller mesmerize an audience has wondered "how do they do that?" This book gives the answers. Here are 40 of America's most popular storytellers, each of them sharing a story guaranteed to work in front of the most demanding audience. In addition to the story, each teller gives tips for telling it in a performance.

Nostalgia for lapsed, wounded, and recovering Catholics, and those who are "still Catholic after all these fears" are wrapped in an all encompassing faith recounted with affection, great timing, and just the right dash of bittersweet as a gifted storyteller recalls the rites of passage of a more innocent time--raised Catholic in the 1950s.

Containing simple truths, common sense, and the promise that people can benefit from past generations' experience, this book is a collection of 50 metaphorical folk tales and parables selected with a global perspective and retold by a professional storyteller. Includes traditional stories reflecting the cumulative wisdom of Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American cultures.

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A surprisingly reverent collection of religious humor clean enough to be used in the pulpit. St. Peter jokes, mock sermons, church bulletin misprints and age-old denominational rivalries are all here. Illustrated.

People of all ages love to watch the escapades of tricksters. In modern times, we watch Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote even Ace Ventura and Bart Simpson. But these contemporary characters have roots in antiquity. The trickster is a universal archetype, found in every culture: Anansi among the African people, Coyote in the American Southwest, Raven in the Pacific Northwest, Rabbit in the American South, the leprechaun in Ireland, Fo...

Two hungry travelers arrive at a village expecting to find a household that will share a bit of food, as had been the custom along their journey. To their surprise, villager after villager refuses to share. This cumulative retelling of an ancient legend shows that when each person makes a small contribution, the collective impact can be huge. Illustrations.

A young boy's snacktime is interrupted by a visit from an elephant. As soon as he moves over to make room, they are joined by a tiger ... and a hippo ... and a big blue whale ... and soon a full menagerie, each insisting there's room for one more.

The 46 stories in this collection are as varied as their origins--Poland, Morocco, Yemen, and Spain, to name a few--yet all possess a unifying element: a uniquely Jewish flavor, "an emphasis on doing the right thing, on surviving by cleverness and kindness--and the need for keeping a good sense of humor".

Tales of outlaws and desperados are one of the few types of folklore that are peculiarly American. The myths and legends surrounding such characters as Belle Starr, Frank and Jesse James, and Wild Bill Hickok grip the national imagination just as tightly as they did a century ago. This well researched book highlightes tales both thrilling and humorous about hangings and burials, shootouts and practical jokes, the Hole in the Wall and Boothill ...

Young or old, playful or terrifying, clad in the brocades of the 16th century or the jeans of today, the phantoms of these tales vary as much as the places they haunt. 50 ghosts are featured.

Forty-four of the finest storytellers performing today present stories from around the world that anyone can tell--adapted for oral performance and enhanced with telling tips, information about the stories, and recommended audiences and age levels.

The founders of the Festival of Appalachian Humor now present an enoyable sequel to their popular Laughter in Appalachia--which continues to sell 7, 000 copies annually. Jones and Wheeler have also collaborated on Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule and Hometown Humor, U.S.A.

Storytellers Holt and Mooney follow up their "Spiders in the Hairdo" with a whole new collection of modern urban legends. Includes an outline for conducting a classroom storytelling workshop based on urban legends. Illustrations.

The changing face of the world solidly impacts the nature of mission. Donal Dorr demonstrates why engagement with other religions and cultures demands that missionaries understand the importance of dialogue and also forces issues such as inculturation, the struggle for liberation of the poor and oppressed, and the need for reconciliation in conflict-torn regions.

This book presents a comprehensive articulation of New Testament teachings on mission from a contemporary American evangelical standpoint. Mission in the New Testament contributes a fresh statement of the biblical foundations of mission, serving as a catalyst for completion of the church's universal mission in this generation.After investigating the historical background of the idea of mission in the Hebrew Scriptures, inter-testamental Judais...

Oh what a pity, what a pity pity pity! With this refrain, the old woman in the vinegar bottle complains until she gets a cottage ... then a row house ... then a mansion ... How far will she move up before she's satisfied? Storyteller and children's librarian Margaret Read MacDonald pairs a whiny old woman with a no-nonsense fairy in a comical tale of ever-expanding greed and its natural result. Nancy Dunaway Fowlkes's expansive India ink and w...

Mexican-Americans of today are richly nourished by the folkways of three cultures Indian, Spanish, and Mexican. This comprehensive look at the Mexican-American world includes proverbs, riddles, and folksongs