More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World

By David Holt

Book Overview

Winner of Storytelling World Award & Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice AwardThis collection of world tales focuses on stories originating from nearly every continent. They are short, gripping stories that "kick in fast," including comedy, trickster, tall tales, and family themes for middle and young readers.When David Holt and Bill Mooney collaborated on their original Ready-to-Tell Tales in 1994, they knew they had a tiger by the tail. How do you top what School Library Journal called a "highly recommended...extraordinary collection"? With more terrific stories contributed by seasoned storytellers, and with a number of enhanced features, such as age-level and audience recommendations, an index of cultural stories, and profiles and photographs of the contributing storytellers. Forty-four of the world's finest storytellers contribute tales all the way from Senegal to Cuba. These tall tales about wise fools, tricksters and animals will teach readers the importance of caring, fairness and resourcefulness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874835836
• ISBN13: 9780874835830
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

More stories, more pleasure

This second book is small but interesting like the first.My two children song the chorus of " Sweet and sour berries"again and again. My younger rename this storie because he was so impressed by one of the characters. He said always this isthe black's man story.I very found of "The man who bought a dream". It's sound interesting and it is. Another storie with a strange title is "Deer and jaguar share a house". After i told this storie, one children was the deerand the other the jaguar. The "Little frog and centipede" is very good for the younger.The others stories are like these.Enjoy,Myriam

For this story collection, they should have six stars!

I loved the original (Ready-to-Tell Tales) that was published several years ago. Friends who are school librarians or storytellers have also recommended it without reservation. This new book is even better. It has more stories and costs less, always a good equation, and this one has new indexes that list the stories by culture of origin and by audience target age level. Parents, teachers, librarians, and storytellers of all descriptions will love this. Great for high school speech competitions, too!