Suddenly They Heard Footsteps : Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century

Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii Suddenly They Heard Footsteps 1(15) Frankie and the Firebird 16(13) The Storm Fool's Tale 29(22) Annals of Hosting 51(16) Stories for the Crossroads 67(13) Lives of the Storytellers 80(14) Speaking Story 94(12) Hunting and Gathering 106(16) Thunder over the Library 122(14) Old Patterns, New Yarns 136(12) Letting the Story Through 148(13) Emergency Storytelling 161(13) Dreaming a New Myth 174(12) Stories Why All Tongues Are Red 186(5) Rich and Poor 191(10) Strange Voices 201(8) The Devil's Noodles 209(11) The Devil in Don Mills 220(10) Mr. Globus and Laughing Boy 230(21) The Storyteller at Fault 251(42) Afterword 293(1) Appendix: Storytelling Resources 294(10) Annotated Bibliography 304(13) Permissions 317