Tales for Telling
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Cover Story
On the cover of this issue we feature a selection of illustrations from the Walker Books List. Can you identify the artists? (Answers below). We are grateful for the help from Walker Books in using this material.
1. Helen Oxenbury (First Picture Books).
2. Shirley Hughes (Nursery Collection).
3. John Burningham (First Words).
4. Patrick Benson (William Mayne's Hob Stories).
5. Kenneth Lilly (Large as Life).
6. Nicola Bayley (Copycats).
7. Philippe Dupasquier (Little Robert).
8. E. J. Taylor (Biscuits, Buttons and Pickles).
9. Jan Ormerod (Baby Books).
10. Colin McNaughton (Allan Ahlberg's Red Nose Readers).
11. Helen Craig (Susie and Alfred).
12. Peter Cross (David Lloyd's Dinosaur Days).
Titles are of the series, not individual books.
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Tales for Telling
Danuta Laskowska
A mistress of the storyteller's art selects seven tales which will be valuable for readaloud sessions. She generously gives some indication of their length and ranges wide in geographical origin. Her skill is in retaining the texture and individuality of the offerings: my favourite here, the Russian Turnip-Tales, catches the tones of growing and changing within the story. The two stories about Bouki from Haiti had a group of sixes and sevens researching the character, the country and Ms Berg's other stories. There are lessons for us all in her storytelling style: see the ways in which she gets her audience involved through shaping the climax of her tales. With valuable collections like this one, listeners soon become readers.
