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Overview
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.Synopsis
Jack Zipes is a master storyteller who cares deeply about his craft. Long a champion of folk tales, he is among those who have reinvigorated storytelling as a highly successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers.
In Creative Storytelling, Zipes argues in a lively and thought-provoking manner for storytelling as animation, intervention, subversion and self-discovery. Encouraging storytellers, elementary school teachers and public librarians to play an active part in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that has the power to create and strengthen a sense of community for students, teachers and parents.
This practical, down-to-earth manual does not prescribe any one storytelling method, but rather shares existing and proven methods with guidelines for both use and adaptation. Zipes encourages storytellers to play with models, ethical principles, canons of literature and social standards to test if they are worthy of the children's respect or are useful in their particular community.
Zipes focuses on storytelling to children between the ages of 6 and 10, but his ideas have relevance for all age groups including pre-schoolers and adults. His storytelling program spans three months and includes stories to work with--introducing various literary genres such as fantasy, legend and science fiction to children in an active "hands-on" manner so that their writing, reading, acting and drawing skills are animated.
This inspiring guide to storytelling transforms learning in places as disparate as schools and youth centers and libraries. It is a vital handbook for all who include storytelling as part of their particular recipe for changing the face of education today.
Publishers Weekly
Storytelling at all grade levels delights both children and their teachers, and this manual will undoubtedly be useful to teachers. Zipes describes his own ventures in classroom storytelling and outlines the process for teachers to follow. Particularly interesting are the variations of fairy tales that Zipes has researched. Without being overly scholarly, he whets the appetite, allowing teachers to develop their material according to time and interest. Zipes also includes useful material on the structure of fairy tales, as well as other types of stories such as the utopian tale and the myth. His final chapter gives suggestions for further reading that will extend the teacher's understanding of storytelling. A good "Notes and Sources" section and an extensive bibliography complete this concise and very useful aid to storytelling at all levels of the classroom. For academic collections.Nancy E. Zuwiyya, Binghamton City Sch. Dist., N.Y.