Another great storytelling resource from award-winning author, Margaret
Read MacDonald. When Margaret Read MacDonald published her book,
Three-Minute Tales in 2004, it received a warm reception from teachers,
youth leaders, clergy, and public speakers, all with an insatiable need
for positive, pithy stories to fill out brief amounts of presentation
time. Now MacDonald is back with more stories that can stretch anywhere
from one to five minutes in length, encourage audience participation,
and can be adapted for a wide range of settings. These riddles, fables,
origin stories, scary stories, trickster tales, and more come from
Thailand, the Republic of Georgia, Mexico, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia,
Korea, Zambia, Hungary, China, Egypt, the Ukraine, India, Russia,
Paraguay, and the Mayan, Jewish, native American, Basque, and
Africa-American traditions. These multicultural fables encourage
fairness, responsibility and trustworthiness. Award-winning author,
Margaret Read MacDonald has written multiple storytelling resource
books. Five Minute Tales combines public speaking with world folktales
and is a great way to get your students and children to participate in
the oral tradition of storytelling.