Course Materials for Elder College
1.  Brief Reminder of Image Order
2.  The Most Important Thing
3.  Beginners' Workshop Handout
4.  Strategies for Learning and Remembering
5.  Changing Traditional Tales
6.  Caring for your Instrument
7.  How to Pick a Story
8. Starting and Ending a Story
9. Ten Things to Take into Account When Telling Stories
10.  The ABCs of Storytelling

Suggested References

1.  Improving Your Storytelling by Doug Lipman
2.  The Storyteller's Start-up Book by Margaret Read MacDonald (there are three copies available in the Vancouver Island Regional Library)
3.  Inviting the Wolf In by Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis

If you are interested in writing your own stories, you will find these books to be very useful references.
1.  From Plot to Narrative by Elizabeth Ellis
2.  The Book of Plots by Lorne Niemi
3.  Telling Tales, Storytelling in the Family by Gail de Vos, Merle Harris, & Celia Barker Lottridge
4.  The Power of Personal Storytelling by Jack Maguire

Collections of Folktales
1.  Best-Loved Folktales of the World, selected by Joanna Cole
2.  Favorite Folktales from around the World, edited by Jane Yolen

Sample Stories

1.  Ah-Choo!
2.  Just Enough
3.  One Good Trick Deserves Another
4.  One Wish
5.  Starfish Becomes a Shining Light
6.  The Bell That Knew the Truth
7.  The Big, Wide-Mouth Frog
8.  The Border Guard
9. The Fox in the Garden
10. The Great Big Enormous Rock
11. The Lost Horse
12. The Ruby
13. The Secret of Happiness
14. The Strawberry
15. The Tail Trade
16. The Taxi Ride
17. The Thief Who Aimed to Please
18. The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking
19. Why Dogs Chase Cats
20. Wisest One of All
21. David and the Spider