Stories and Storytelling

Camino Santiago, 2019...The Beginning

In April 2019, my sister Mary-Lou and I, undertook a pilgrimage called the Camino Santiago to Compostela Del Santiago in Galicia, Spain....

Books and Love...Sant Jordi and World Book Day

In 2019, I was leaving Barcelona for Cordoba, when I heard about the most wonderful tradition that was to take place the next day, April...

Easter Nostalgia

I love the traditions attached to festivals because they offer opportunities to share stories. . The stories in some homes may be...

World Storytelling Day...a Celebration with Stories about Stories.

“Story, as it turns out, was crucial to our evolution -- more so than opposable thumbs. Opposable thumbs let us hang on; story told us...

Story making and Storytelling in the Library

One of the joys of childhood is an uninhibitied imagination. But how long are we able to hold on to this? How quickly we get jaded, often...

FOOD is...sitting around the table telling STORIES

Taking on from my previous post about food and families, when I think of families sitting around a table, I think about them sharing food...

Question!! A Story of a Teacher

"Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau...

A Cup of Noon Chai and a Library of Stories.

Give me a book about stories and I’m happy. Give me a book about stories and family connections...and I’m thrilled! Give me a book about...

Stories from Orissa and the connections my students made.

While I’ve been posting about all kinds of books, our Indian Folk Tale theme has been continuing at the school library. Last week we were...

Why I call myself a Story Educator.

The joy of spring cleaning. ....notes from the first storytelling workshop I attended. 24 August, 2002 with the most wonderful...

Story Fun

25th March 2021 My students thoroughly enjoy participatory activities in the school library. With online fatigue rather strong, the fun...

Jewels under the saddle...a story.

As an old Irish saying goes.... "Three apples fell from the tree. One for he who tells the story, one for he who reads/listens to the...