Books with author Vivian Dubrovin

Join the storytelling fun! If you’ve ever wanted to try storytelling, Family Stories, Book #2 in the KidTeller Series, will show you how to get started in an informal, familiar environment.What are family stories? Are they…stories you tell to younger brothers, grandparents, aunts or uncles? stories you learn about your unique family history? family legends you create with your family while working together on a project? They are all of the above. But they all have one unique common characteristic. They are all informal stories, adapted for their specific listeners. They are not theatrical performances that are memorized and recited or acted out. They are tales that are learned and modified for each new telling. Just like writers are advised to “write what they know,” storytellers should “tell to who you know,” know your audience. And, since there’s no audience you know better than your family, you’ll find many beginner storytelling opportunities. Whether you’ve read KidTellers Book 1 Easy Beginner Tales or other beginning instruction, or are just getting started now, Family Stories can help you learn basic storytelling concepts, showing you how to speak to your audience and see their responses to you. You’ll learn how storytelling can be more like a conversation than like theater. As in all KidTellers Series books, you’ll find complete “TellerPaks,” each with example stories, step-by-step illustrated instructions for easy props to help tell them, fun activities and telling tips, and an “extra surprise” to help 9-12 year olds develop storytelling skills. With an active table of contents and links you can jump directly to each TellerPak and then navigate within each TellerPak to a favorite story or craft. The three Family Stories TellerPaks provide examples of different kinds of family stories:TellerPak #1: “Tote Bag Tales” shows how to use a tote bag full of props to help tell a tale. It presents one way to capture a young child’s interest with props and hold it while telling a tiny tale. Then it shows how to adapt the tale for senior citizens or other relatives. TellerPak #2: “Take a Family History StoryQuest” shows how to learn about events and people in your family’s past. Learn to make and put together a family history puzzle, get relatives to tell the tales behind the facts, and discover what makes you and your family unique. TellerPak #3: “The Fairy Garden Adventures” shows you one way to create stories with your family members while working on a family project together. Learn to create a series of stories that pass on family values, help solve problems, and teach about your family traditions. You can get started storytelling right now, with the people and stories you know best, your family! Let Family Stories help you find the amazing story treasures you already have right at home. Become a KidTeller today! (9-12 yr olds)

Series Description:StoryQuest Books are collections of stories for 12-15 year-olds to help inspire you to discover and create stories from your own life experiences. To write stores, first, read stories! Just as scientists and inventors read reports before experimenting or creating, storytellers also investigate before creating. Such StoryQuests can not only inspire story ideas but can also help you solve creative stumbling blocks by providing many options and patterns of complete short stories. They are not intended as perfect forms to analyze or copy; instead of rules of what must be done, examples show various possibilities to help you imagine your own unique stories. StoryQuest Books provide convenient samplings of the types of tales that might be found on a full StoryQuest, as a way to get started on such a creative journey, with tips of where to go next.E-book Description:In Birthday Lights, the first book of the StoryQuest Books Series, unique new stories are combined with adaptations of a few favorites to create a sampling of birthday-themed adventures of a variety of lengths and styles. Birthdays are a great way to start StoryQuesting because the familiar theme can provide many easy jumping-off points to discover similar tales from your life. Subjects range from the familiar--parties, gifts, and wishes--to the unexpected--unicorns and robots! Some stories, short and snappy, provide quick inspirations and are easy for younger readers. Others weave more complicated tales, for times when you want to curl up for a comfortable thoughtful hour of uplifting bright fiction. Read in any order, start with ones that interest you most, save others for later. At the end, find tips how to discover your own stories and where to go next to continue your birthday StoryQuest. Whether used to help celebrate a birthday, or as a creative aid, Birthday Lights will help shine a light on the many marvelous stories waiting hidden in your own life.

Whether you are a kid just beginning to tell stories or a young teller mastering the art, Storytellling Discoveries will show you how to have fun! Bring stories to life with marionettes and big backyard puppets. Draw and tell a series of stories or illustrate tales with an overhead projector. enhance tales with a handpuppets for a storytelling doll, lucky box, or rock art. Discover the secrets of creating original characters, adapting tales, and telling your own tales.

This book helps young storytellers find the right story to tell at campouts, slumber parties, workshops, and family gatherings. It tells kids how to create their own tales to use while traveling in the car or babysitting. Find tips to help learn, practice and tell stories. Get ideas for using costumes, puppets, music, and crafts. Discover the fun of storytelling parties. Learn how to start a storytelling club. Organize a junior storytelling festival.