Jenni's Recommended Books
Christina Baldwin, Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our lives through the Power
and Practice of Story, New World Library, Novato, 2005.
Adrian Beckingham, Stories that Crafted the Earth, Gothic Image Publications,
Glastonbury, 2005.
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantmant. Vintage Books, New York, April
1989 (About the value of folktales)
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales Introduction by Padraic Colum and Commentary by Joseph Campbell. Pantheon Books, New York, 1944, Random House 1972
Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Fontana Press, London, 1993.
“A brilliant examination through ancient hero myths, of man’s
eternal struggle for identity.” Time
Stephen Denning, The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
Nancy Mellon, Storytelling and the Art of Imagination, Element, Rockport,
1992.
“In this step-by-step guide, the author outlines the essential energies
of every good story and teaches us how to use visualisation and imagination
to evoke them.”
republished as The Art of Storytelling in 1998.
See also Storytelling with Children published by Hawthorn Press, Stroud,
UK, 2000. Her newest book explores how stories resonate with the whole human
body. She explores Chinese meridian theory, yogic practices, and the vital
links between the human organs, personality development, and storytelling.
imagination.
Loren Niemi and Elizabeth Ellis, Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult
Stories,
August House, Little Rock 2001.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman, Rider, London, 1992.
Kathleen Ragan, Fearless Girls, wise women and beloved sisters: heroines in folktales from around the world, Bantam Books, New York, 1998.
Ruth Sawyer , The Way of the Storyteller: a great storyteller shares her rich experience and joy in her art and tells eleven of her best-loves stories, Penguin New York, 1942.
Diana Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer, Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth, Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, Harper and Row, New York, 1983.
Also see heaps of great stuff by American writer Jack Zipes.