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Filled with provocative essays addressing the art and craft of storytelling, solo performance and story interpretation.

Recommended for storytellers and storytelling instructors.
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About Story
Filled with practical tips for telling and analyzing folk narratives. Recommended for storytellers and storytelling instructors.

"About Story includes the essentials for the understanding and learning of story dressed in elegant, but practical, prose."
–Gail de Vos, storyteller, author of Storytelling for Young Adults, lecturer on storytelling at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

"Ruth Stotter is an important writer in the field of contemporary storytelling. In her articles she shares her scholarship, psychological insights, and wealth of creative ideas for tellers. About Story is great fun to read."
–Judy Sierra, Ph.D., storyteller and author of Cinderella, Twice Upon a Tale, Multicultural Folktales, and Quests and Spells.

"Ruth Stotter is the finest teacher of storytelling I know."
–John Boe, Ph.D., storyteller, writer and lecturer at the University of California, UC Davis, and the Jungian Institute in San Francisco, CA.

You're On!
Designed for both beginning and experienced speakers, You're On!: 101 Tips to improve Your Public Speaking Skills provides creative and practical tips to help write and deliver oral presentations. Tips include how to add humor, suspense, the pause, repetition, getting audience participation, rehearsing, handling stage fright, using a microphone, and more. Stotter believes in the power of incorporating stories into speeches, and the book illustrates this by including mini-stories related to the speaking suggestions. A review in Storyline newsletter said that if you replaced "public speaking" with "storytelling" the book is completely applicable for preparing and presenting storytelling programs.

"You're On! is sprinkled throughout with wonderful little gems of stories, perfect for both beginning and experienced speakers."
–Robert Stevens Fish, professional speaker and author of The Woman Who Walked in Paaradise: Stories for Coping in a Chaotic World.

–Winner: Best Self- Improvement Book
from Bay Area Independent Publishers Association

The Golden Axe
The Golden Axe is an unusual anthology - a collection of the same folktale from thirty-three different countries. The texts are accompanied with interpretive notes. Teachers will appreciate the reader's theatre/puppet scripts, charts of protagonists, animals, foods, countries, and a classroom game related to the story.

–Barry A. Kaufman, former Ed.D. Dean of the School of Education, Dominican University (San Rafael, CA) wrote, "The Golden Axe is most appropriate for teachers interested in providing a multicultural context for their literacy and reading programs."

"We need this story in our schools! We need roads of understanding that teach experiential lessons of emotional intelligence. Rarely does one book encompass so many tale variants that are instantly beneficial and far-reaching for teachers, s tudents, parents and anyone knowing the importance of sstories in our children's lives."
–Laura Simms, storyteller and author