This newest series of e-books from Storycraft Publishing was created to provide quick and easy immediate information to help young storytellers become KidTellers.

Each e-booklet in the New KidTellers Series includes one-to three TellerPaks per booklet. Each TellerPak includes a story, a craft to help tell the story, tips for telling, and an extra surprise. Booklets currently in production include topics such as Easy Beginner Tales, Family Storytelling, and Puppet-Pal Voices. Additional titles will be released as they become available.

Easy Beginner Tales by Vivian Dubrovin Illustrated by Barbara Dubrovin $3.95 The first e-booklet, Easy Beginner Tales, presents a very simple way for 9-12 year-olds to start learning storytelling skills. It includes TellerPaks on Tabletop Telling, Mistakes and Discoveries, and audience Participation with a Marionette.   “From basic acting tips to insights on how to remember key components of the story, Easy Beginner Tales is quite simply a 'must' for any who would become a storyteller.” -- Diane Donovan, eBook Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

Finding Fun In Storytelling by Vivian Dubrovin Illustrated by Barbara Dubrovin $1.95 Includes the Magic Storytelling Stick Sample TellerPak, reprinted from the Junior Storyteller ISSN#1087-7398, Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall 2002 in a new downloadable electronic format. Read about Mandy's Second Storytelling Stick. Learn to Make a Storytelling Stick, and discover how to “Create Your Own Storytelling Badge.”

What Are TellerPaks?

      TellerPaks are similar to kits. They help young people learn to become storytellers. Each TellerPak includes:

• an original sample story
• instructions for a craft that you can make to help tell it
• tips for telling it an
• extra surprise (this could be an idea for making the story easier for you to tell or an idea for creating a new story of your own.)

Where Did TellerPaks Come From?

      For a little more than 17 years the Junior Storyteller quarterly publication printed one TellerPak (a story, a craft to help tell it, and tips for telling) in each issue. Beginning in 1996, the Kids' Storytelling Club website began to publish bimonthly TellerPaks on its website. Some of these TellerPaks were collected in books, some of them just got filed away as back issues of the Junior Storyteller, and some of them never got published.

      When the Junior Storyteller published its last issue in July, 2010, young storytellers across the United States, their parents, teachers, and youth group leaders began asking where they could continue to get storytelling ideas for classes, workshops, and club meetings. And how could they get them quickly?

      Storycraft Publishing began to go through its files of back issues of the Junior Storyteller and all those great ideas that never got a chance to get published to find the most popular, fun, and interesting projects. They put one, two, or three TellerPaks into Downloadable Booklets to make some of the best youth storytelling ideas from Storycraft's long history available to more people as quickly as possible.