My Ever-expanding List:
Stories I Tell
(Divided into Programs)
 

Tales for Around the World:

Catskin by the Brothers Grimm (German)
On To Widecombe Fair: an English folk tale
Battle Song of the Giants: Emily Ivanoff Brown, ed. (Inuit)
The Elfin Knight: a Scottish folk tale
The Seal Catcher and the Selkie: a Scottish folk tale
Thomas the Rhymer: a Scottish folk tale (in progress)
How Orion Became the Star Warrior: a Greek myth
A Tale of Two Sisters: The Dawn and the Moon. A Greek myth.
Talk: a folk tale (Africa)
Wicked John: a North Carolina folk tale
How Thor Got His Hammer: a Norse myth
Odin and the Mead of Poetry: a Norse myth
Loki's Revenge and Punishment: a Norse myth
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: a German folk tale
The Cowherd and the Girl-Weaver: a Chinese folk tale
The First and Only Crab: a folk tale
Hans Joseph's Gift (The Apple): German folk tale adapted by Ruth Sawyer(?)
Little Chu and Old Master Li: a tale of ancient China
Water Man Comes to Dinner
Jack and the Merrow: an Irish tale
The Child Cuchulain: a Celtic tale
 

Strange Things May Happen There:
Tales of the Fair Folk of Scotland, and Other Beings...

The Elfin Knight: a Scottish folk tale
The Seal Catcher and the Selkie: a Scottish folk tale
Thomas the Rhymer: a Scottish folk tale (in progress)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: a German folk tale
Oh, the Czar of the Forest: a Cossack fairy tale
TailyPo: a North Carolina folk tale
Jack and the Merrow: an Irish tale
 

The Tales of Storyweaver:
My Own Stories, Prepared or Invented on the Spot

The Mice and the Wind-Cat (my own invention.)
Of Carpenters and Kings (my own invention)
How Fox Saved his People (my own invention)
The Courtly Lover (my own invention)
The Song of the World Tree (my own invention)
 

Literary Tales:
Stories by Well-Known, and Not So Well-Known, Authors

The Onions by Lionel Basney
Star Mother's Youngest Child by Louise Moeri
Little Lost Angel by Janet Heath
How the Elephant Got his Trunk by Rudyard Kipling
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in progress)
The Apple adapted by Ruth Sawyer(?)
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
 

For the Half-Pints

The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids by the Brothers Grimm
The Old Woman and the Piggy: a folk tale
Little Bunny FooFoo: a children's story (thanks to Brian Sturm)
The First and Only Crab: a folk tale
How Fox Saved his People (my own invention)
How Orion Became the Star Warrior: a Greek myth
Talk: an African folk tale
Water Man Comes to Dinner
 

Holiday Tales

TailyPo: a North Carolina folk tale
The Purple Ribbon: a scary tale
Once in a Wood (song)
The Worms Crawl In (song)
The Big Big Feet: a scary tale
Wait for Marvin: a scary tale
Miss Riney's Eyes: a scary tale
Star Mother's Youngest Child by Louise Moeri
Little Lost Angel by Janet Heath
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
The Year Red Disappeared from Christmas by Claire Basney
Hans Joseph's Giftretold by Ruth Sawyer(?)
 

Tales of Faith
Rahab of Jericho: a Bible story, retold
The Wedding: a Bible story, retold
Jesus and the Samaritan: a Bible story, retold
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
 
 

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