Norah Dooley
Stories Nobody Told Me: Italian Folk tales
© 2003 Norah Dooley (634479348556)
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Wit wisdom and garlic - its a spicy blend from wise peasants and "paisans" or country people with attutude. Listen, laugh and learn.
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Stories Nobody Told Me:
"Italian" Folk tales for all seasons
Told by Norah Dooley
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Traditional Italian folk tales serve up common story motifs with a distinctive flavor. Despite a large extended Italian family in my background, I came to my cultural heritage through the back door of my enthusiastic but slapdash scholarship. The work of Italo Calvino, Bocaccio, Straparola and Basile inspired me to tell my versions of these timeless tales. As many European storytellers before me, I also found inspiration in the ancient Panchantantra texts and the old Buddhist Jataka tales. The Three Hens is my own fable. I have cooked up these nontraditional tales for you. The ingredients used to dish up these tales are very old, and the"recipes" and the seasonings come from Italy. Buon appetito!
Norah "La Tosca" Dooley, July 2002
Bio
Norah Dooley is a storyteller and children’ s author. She has published spoken word CDs including: Music of Angels (1999), Stories Nobody Told Me “Italian” Folk tales (2002) and Stories from the Neighborhood, World Folk tales (2002), Winter Tales (2006) and My Bad,Bad Dog and other Neighbors (2006). Norah’s published picture books, Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup and Everybody Brings Noodles, (Carolrhoda Books @ lernerbooks.com) are four titles in a series about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA.
Norah has been presenting workshops and stories throughout New England for people of all ages. She has performed as a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels in Cambridge and Boston MA, the Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival in NY.
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funny great car cd
author: JaniceMy 6 and 8 year old listened on the way to hilton head island. it was pretty funny and told really cute stories.