DRAWING OR DRAW AND TELL STORIES
(excerpts from posts)
(If you want to retell any of the stories listed below, be sure to obtain permission from the copyright holder if the material is not in the public domain)

1) The Drawing stories you are asking about you will find in the Anne Pellowski books. She has lots of them.

• Drawing Stories from around the World and a Sampling of European Handkerchief Stories by Anne Pellowski. (2005 - Ages 9-12)
Review
The easy-to-follow drawings will enrich the repertoires of many librarians, teachers, and storytellers. The selections from the storyknifing tradition of native peoples of Alaska or the Chinese stories that correspond to the characters of their written language offer a great way to enhance the study of another culture. Pellowski offers suggestions for telling and notes when a version appears in a children's book. Some tales will also be fun for children to learn to draw themselves, especially the ekaki uta chants of Japanese children and those that feature numbers in the drawing. The European handkerchief, or "hanky panky," stories are delightful, though they take more practice and dexterity to present. This is a wonderful resource that clearly took many years of research and dedication to create. School Library Journal

A great addition to any professional collection just for the multiculturalism alone, this book is a gem because of the bonus handkerchief stories. Recommended.Library Media Connection

Although many tales here are intended for children, any audience would be taken with the storyteller who choses to execute a story in this unique way. Those with an interest in folklore will find it equally appealing. It is worth having on the shelf for the opportunities it offers to learn not only about storytelling around the world, but also about a particular untapped history of storytelling.VOYA

• Story Vine, The by Anne Pellowski with Lynn Sweat (illus). (1984 - Baby-Preschool)
Review by Gwyn Calvetti, Storyteller
Storytellers are always in need of short but engaging stories to round out a program. Anne Pellowski's THE STORY VINE will not disappoint anyone looking for these types of tales. There are stories using string, trouble dolls, thumb pianos and even sand! Pellowski, as a storyteller who travels all over the world for UNICEF, is uniquely qualified to write such a book. I've had the pleasure of hearing her and meeting her in person, and these stories can frame a multicultural story session nicely. She used a story from each of the ethnic groups to arrive in the area, starting with the Native Americans and ending with the southeast Asian refugees. The use of the props is not at all distracting, as they can be at times, but integral to the telling of each of these stories.
If you want some "quickie" stories, if you want unusual tales, or if you want to try to use props effectively in storytelling, this is what you want to see.

2) This is a great source.
http://www.drawandtell.com/hastoryvine.html

3) Aaron's Storybook ~ The Boy Who Drew Cats
http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/045.html

4) A Magic Paint Brush - A Chinese Folk Tale about Doing Good and about Greed - TOPICS Online Magazine
http://www.topics-mag.com/

5) The Magic Brush
http://www.civprod.com/storylady/stories/magicbrush.htm

6) There is a Japanese number story on p 58 in Anne Pellowski's Story Vine, The. It involves sixes, lazy eight and zeroes. Here are four books that have these types of stories:
a) Author MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-
Title Twenty tellable tales : audience participation folktales for the beginning storyteller by Margaret Read MacDonald.
Publisher Wilson, 1986.
Paging xvi, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes Bibliography: p. 213-220.

b) Author Pellowski, Anne.
Title Story Vine, The: a source book of unusual and easy-to-tell stories from around the world.
Anne Pellowski ; illustrated by Lynn Sweat.
Publisher Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, c1984.
Paging ix, 116 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographies.
Subjects Story-telling.
Tales. Children's stories.
Other Names Sweat, Lynn
Pellowski, Anne.
Family storytelling handbook : how to use st 1987

c) Author Bauer, Caroline Feller.
Uniform Title New handbook for storytellers
Title Caroline Feller Bauer's new handbook for storytellers : with stories, poems, magic, and more illustrations by Lynn Gates Bredeson.
Publisher American Library Association, c1993.
Paging xvii, 550 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects Storytelling Handbooks, manuals, etc.

d) Marsh, Valerie.
Mystery-fold : stories to tell, draw, and fold 1993

7) It's time for my annual plea for SOMEONE to come up with the drawing of a head - an old woman's with a bun on the back of her head made with the numbers 1-9. Any one???
Response: There is a Japanese drawing story using numbers (sort of like "She was an only child" and then you draw a one for her nose... "She had two cats" and then you draw a two's, etc.

8) Anne Pellowski has one in her Story Vine, The - it's not the one I remember MY teachers telling.

9) Richard Thompson (Annick Press Ltd. Toronto/New York) has two books:
a) There is a fun dragon story in the book Draw and Tell. It's a story about a princess who gets so fed up with all the knights boasting about how many dragons they've slain that she leaves home to find a dragon for herself

10) Richard Thompson also has another book Frogs Riddle and Other Draw and Tell Stories.

11) ) Story Vine, The by Anne Pellowski has several including "Wild Bird." I love telling audience that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about telling in to her classes.

12) Caroline Feller Bauer's books usually have sections on draw and tell.

13) Tim Jennings suggested something called "chalk talk. "Chalk talks are fun. I do The House That Jack Built that way, and the kids can chime in on every element. You don't have to be a great picture-drawer (as I explain) as long as you can tell what it's a picture of.

14) I've used Monkey Face by Frank Asch as a tell-and-draw story for library settings and it works well. Of course, it's under copyright. Works well with preschoolers and kids slightly older who catch the joke that the drawing does not look anything like his mom.

15) Pete Seeger used to sing "I had a rooster, my rooster loved me, I fed my rooster on green bark tea" as a chalk talk. Some he quite consciously did a bit at a time, letting the kids guess what it was-- one such image was "South end of a cow facing north." It's fun developing the chatter that fills the time it takes to draw the next image. Pictures that can change from one thing into another are always a hit, if you can figure out how to get one in without doing violence to the story. (We used to pass notes in school using some of these, but they wouldn't be suitable for a children's performer: one, I remember, was a light bulb that turned into a "fat lady putting on a girdle." I wonder if any child knows what that looks like anymore? And some folks say there's no such thing as progress!) Cumulative stories are good, because you can use the pictures to pull the kids into participating.

16) These are real gems worth borrowing on interlibrary loan. (Even I can do them!) They're all by the same person, but her name changes along the way. I'm not at work & our computerized catalog doesn't give ISBN information so let me know if you need more than this.
Margaret Jean Olson - Tell and Draw Stories - Minneapolis, Minn. : Creative Storytime Press, c1963 .
Margaret Jean Oldfield - More Tell and Draw Stories - Minneapolis : Creative Storytime, 1969, c1963.
Margaret Jean Oldfield - Lots More Tell and Draw Stories - Minneapolis, MN : Creative Storytime Press, c1973.
I would have said they're out of print, but I found them all listed as available on Amazon along with 4 others by other authors in print & 1 out of print when I put in the words "tell and draw stories." Sounds like this is an idea that has far more available than I would have expected.

17) As you may know I do just this. I am a cartoonist/storyteller my program Once Upon a Toon
http://www.onceuponatoon.com
blends storytelling with live cartoon illustration. Unlike traditional chalk talks I do up to 10 pages of illustration for a single story drawing as I tell. But I do have many one drawing tales. I have about 45 stories I tell illustrated, all original or adapted stories. I have also about 20 or so more that I use to teach illustration and storytelling. Those who have taken my workshop have seen my how to draw a rabbit story and drawing. I have been hoping to do a book on the subject myself. I just finished a how to video which I hope to have released in a few months. On it I do teach some of the story drawings. If it goes well I may do a whole instructional video of just how to draw stories. At any rate, I also have done a lot of research into the history of Chalk Talks and performing cartoonist and have some early footage of a chalk talk vaudeville performance. I would be glad to share some of the history with you, and the list if interested. My performance tends to be more complex drawings and illustration of the stories rather than the usual gimmick drawings, but I do certainly have a few of those I have developed too. My interest in Chalk Talks has grown as I began to realize I was really one of only a select few keeping alive the artform, and perhaps one of an even smaller group who tours nationwide. While my program is very different than those early Chalk Talks, I do view what I do as owing a great deal to early cartoonists who told stories. Most chalk talks were performed by cartoonists who also did a bit of patter with the toons. Rube Goldberg, Robert Ripley, Winsor McCay, all did some form of Chalk Talks.

18) Ann Pellowski has several books, Story Vine, The, Family Storytelling Handbook.The library should have them.I especially like the one, she calls it of Japanese origin where the children have to find the numbers 1-10 in the drawing after the story is told.

19) Kids Can Draw Ancient Egypt (Kids Can Draw series #16) by Philippe Legendre
A Child’s First Drawing Book
With this simple teaching method, every child can learn to draw!
Designed as a child’s first art series, Kids Can Draw will help any child learn the basics of drawing. It’s as easy as drawing a triangle, circle, or square. By starting with these basic shapes, your child can create a pyramid, pharoah, Egyptian god, or anything from ancient Egypt.
The Kids Can Draw method provided a fun, effective way for your child to learn basic drawing skills and achieve amazing results.
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