Margaret Read Macdonald Views

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A children's librarian and professional storyteller, Margaret Read MacDonald is best known for her books associated with folktales and the art of storytelling. While some of MacDonald's works focus on individual tales, such as her picture books, others collect tales that are centered around a particular theme or country. In many cases the author adds detailed notes for beginning storytellers on how to tell the folktale to an audience. Appreciated for her thorough research and vast knowledge of folklore, MacDonald is also credited for her gift of making stories easy to tell without sacrificing quality, noted School Library Journal reviewer Donna L. Scanlon. Cris Riedel, writing in School Library Journal, also had praise for the author, dubbing her a grande dame of storytelling.

In this unique collection of stories and personal interviews, folklorist Margaret Read MacDonald examines storytelling through the distinct voices of the tellers themselves. Ten Traditional Tellersoffers an intimate look at their lives and art as they discuss their reasons for telling, their uses of the stories, and the influence of their cultural heritage. Coming from places such as Ghana, Brazil, and Thailand, the tellers include colorful characters like Vi Hilbert--a member of the Upper Skagit tribe--who continues to work despite near blindness, and Rinjing Dorje, whose bawdy shepherds

By now I was touring doing workshops and keynotes in many places and I needed a collection of MRM [Margaret Read MacDonald] stories which was affordable. The H.W. Wilson books were wonderful but pricey. I had been connected with Ted and Liz Parkhurst through an American Folklore Society friend who suggested me as author for a Northwest volume in their regional ghostlore series. I contracted to write Ghost Stories From the Pacific Northwest (1995), then noticing that they were doing inexpensive paperback editions, I proposed a how-to book on storytelling for them. The Storyteller's Start-up Book (1993) resulted, a handy guide for beginners, with twelve good stories to cut their teeth. Note that sometimes book contracts slip past each other. Though the ghostlore book was contracted first with August House, the storytelling book, which was more fun to write and took less research, passed it by and was published first.

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