Dianne De Las Casas

Spooktacular Tales

25 Just Scary Enough Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a popular performer and well-known storyteller, this entertaining compendium reveals the secrets for suspenseful storytelling and features 25 spooky stories for audiences of all ages. Experienced performer and artist Dianne de Las Casas coaches students and adults in the art of telling scary stories. The book details de Las Casas's process for becoming a master storyteller and offers ways you can establish trust with audiences, provides tips for telling spooky tales, and shares methods for managing audience participation. Each of the 25 included stories is accompanied by one of various identifying icons, with selections ranging from suspenseful to comical to thrilling-foregoing those stories that contain gore or the grotesque. A brief section explains the benefits of scary stories, such as providing a safe way to exercise and develop our fear system, strengthening our coping skills by desensitizing us to unpleasant things, and building caution for actual frightening situations. Each tale is illustrated with a "scare-o-meter," an icon that rates how frightening the story is and identifies the most appropriate audiences for its telling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781440836909
• ISBN-10: 1440836906
• Artikelnr.: 42090583

Autorenporträt

Dianne de Las Casas was a professional storyteller and author of four previous books for Libraries Unlimited and Teacher Ideas Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Why Tell a Scary Story? Various "Scarious" Jump Tales Legends
Urban Legends Ghost Stories The Gory Story Slightly Spooky How to Determine
Age Appropriateness of Your Story Selection Pre-K and K (Ages 3-5) Grades
1-3 (Ages 6-8) Grades 4-6 (Ages 9-12) Grades 7-12 (Ages 13-18) Establishing
an Environment of Trust Storytelling with Pacing, Timing, Pitch, and Tone
Pacing Timing Pitch Tone Thirteen Tips for Telling Spooky Stories The Scary
Stories The Spook-O-Meter Aaron Kelly's Bones Baba Yaga Bloody Mary Bone
Soup The Brown Suit The Call from the Grave Creak, Crack, Thump, Bump! The
Crying Baby The Curse of Pele The Ghost of John The Ghost with One Black
Eye Ginny Greenteeth The Graveyard Bone The Hairdo The Hook I'm Coming for
Your Soul! Irish Eyes It Floats! La Llorona (The Wailing Woman) Over in the
Graveyard Pulling the Pumpkin The Sack Filled with Treats Sneakers The
Tinker and the Ghost The White Satin Gown Source Notes Web Resources