Storytelling: General sites

National Storytelling Network: http://www.storynet.org/. The basic resource. 

Folktales: www.folktales.net The site of two storytellers who specialize in Asian and African stories, with updated information about multicultural storytelling, the 2001 Tellebration, and more. 

Storyteller: www.storyteller.net. Good information, links and stories, and an audio component that lets you listen to stories by a number of storytellers and hear the nuances and cadences of their tellings.

August House: http://www.augusthouse.com/. A major publisher of story-telling guides and folk tale anthologies. 

Yellow Moon Press: www.yellowmoon.com/. This site has very useful links to other sites and information.

Multicultural Storytelling Resources

Aaron Shepard's Storytelling Page: http://www.aaronshep.com/storytelling/index.html. Includes stories from Denmark, Korea and from the Islamic culture; provides grade level information and pronunciation for many of the words in the stories. There are also a number of helpful articles that address the validity of telling multicultural stories, researching stories and copyright information. 

Black Storytellers Alliance: www.blackstorytellers.com. A gateway to African oral tradition and folklore, with a great bibliography and annotated list of websources.

Federal Writers' Project: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam014.html. As part of the African-American mosaic, the Library of Congress includes some folk lore collected in the 1930s and 1940s. 

The Moonlit Road: http://www.themoonlitroad.com/. Devoted to ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South.

Native American Sites: http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/indians.html. Lisa Mitten, past president of the American Indian Library Association, maintains this important resource. 

Oyate: http://www.oyate.org/intro.html. Access to good resources on Native peoples, and warnings against some that could prove offensive. 

Sacred Voices: www.sacredvoices.com. Multicultural stories primarily focusing on ancient India. The site includes programs, events, book, video and audio reviews as well as many links to other sites.

Story Library: A Storytelling Bookshelf for Teachers: http://www.storyarts.org/store/bookshelf/. Provides an extensive book collection on the art of storytelling for use in the classroom and library. It lists articles, lesson plans and links to multicultural resources.

Storytelling: The Art of Knowledge. http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/fph/storytel/introeng.html#menu  From the Canadian Museum of Civilization, stories of the Algonquin, Abenaki,  Métis Cree, Mi'kmaq, Inuvialuit and Nisga'a peoples, with background. "Stories lose meaning when translated from their original language. Meaning is also lost to people of other cultures. There are images, suggestions and associations in these stories that mean nothing to the outsider but are apparent in the minds of the Cree...."

Storytelling in African Oral Traditions - Griot: http://africancultures.about.com/library/extras/griots/blstorytelling.htm?iam=dpile&terms=%2Bgriot. Dr. Austin Ogunsuyi introduces the praise singer tradition.   

Dealing with the imperfect

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908). Heath Anthology of American Literature. Contributing Editor, George Friedman. http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/harris.html Suggests classroom issues and strategies for the Uncle Remus stories. Links to sites for African American authors.