"What is your favorite story?" is the question children across the country often ask professional storyteller Pleasant DeSpain. As he attempts to answer, his list grows longer and longer, until he confesses he likes them all. An untiring researcher of oral traditions, DeSpain is known for his concise versions of world folktales specifically crafted for retelling. This new, digital recording of 10 stories is excerpted from DeSpain's 22 Splendid Tales to Tell from Around the World, Volume One. The accompanying music, original compositions for this recording by Jim Wolfe, reflects the styles of the featured cultures.
Simple, potent and direct to the heartstings, this mix of traditional and original tales draws the listener into a transformational journey of the soul...
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Mama believed the woman who dies with the most fabric scraps wins. She saved scraps from odd sewing jobs for neighbors....
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Storyteller Donald Davis had a very sensible mother. She had a pretty good idea of what boys would do, so she was always on the lookout....
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Two new Appalachian stories from the author of the award winning Listening for the Crack of Dawn; an ideal introduction to contemporary storytelling for adults....
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David Sedaris' new collection of essays including live recordings! tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speechtherapy classes...
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Scary stories help children face fear and master it, by portraying the elements of conflict in clear, goodversusevil terms with good triumphant in the end....
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then let Britain's bestloved storytellers take you through some of their funniest, strangest, and most embarrassing moments in this ribtickling collection....
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Traditional values abound in these hilarious stories from Appalachia: friendship, family, orderliness, humor, and delight in an especially inventive practical joke....
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Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a finetuned ear for digression....
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Kathryn Tucker Windham's mellifluous Southern voice guides us by words alone through a town where a parrot sings along with the doxology at church....
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Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a finetuned ear for digression....
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Audible by Alan Twigg
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