Winner of the Storytelling World Award Have you ever played the game
"Telephone" (or "Gossip"), where one person whispers a sentence to
another and that person whispers it to the next? If you have, you know
that by the time the sentence gets around a circle of people, it has
almost always changed, sometimes drastically. In the same way, stories
are passed "through the grapevine," they grow and change and take on
many forms. The stories in this book show just how powerful the
grapevine can be. Most of them have been making rounds for hundreds of
years. Many of them are found in slightly (or very) different forms in
countries thousands of miles apart. All of them are fun to read out
loud, and especially fun to tell. Each story has tips for telling the
story without the book, and the authors encourage budding tellers to
"take these stories and make them your own." These multicultural stories
will teach readers the importance of caring, fairness and respect.