With these authoritative selections, you can:
-- Expand outreach to children with special needs and hard-to-reach public segments
-- Create multicultural collections and programming
-- Entertain children with top-notch programming material

Instructs, inspires, and entertains like no other resource of its kind. Bauer's workshops have shown librarians, teachers, and other storytellers how to effectively introduce sights, sounds, tastes, and creative activities into each story program. The New Handbook details countless innovative ideas using film, music, crafts, puppetry, magic, and more to illuminate audiences of all ages -- preschooler through senior citizen.

Bauer offers valuable information on U.S. storytelling festivals, updated booklists of stories for any and every occasion, sample programs to direct the novice storyteller, and extensive indexes.

Illustrated by: Lynn Bredeson