Three-Minute Tales: Stories from Around the World to Tell or Read When Time Is Short

Anyone who teaches, leads, or speaks in public has had the experience of needing to fill short amounts of time in order to hold the attention of the group. The challenge is familiar to Margaret Read MacDonald, who for thirty-five years told stories weekly to preschoolers. MacDonald has assembled 100 [...]
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Anyone who teaches, leads, or speaks in public has had the experience of needing to fill short amounts of time in order to hold the attention of the group. The challenge is familiar to Margaret Read MacDonald, who for thirty-five years told stories weekly to preschoolers. MacDonald has assembled 100 simple, short, pithy tales for all occasions--holidays, history or nature walks, public speaking and media appearances, and especially for the classroom. these traditional tales come from China, Paraguay, Indonesia, west Africa, Mexico, Japan. thailand, Turkey, Syria, Cuba, Mexico, the Ukraine, eastern Europe, and the Jewish, native American, and African-American traditions. Includes bibliography of additional sources of short tales.