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The Junior Storyteller: (ISSN# 1087-7398) is a quarterly activity guide for young storytellers. Each issue contains a complete storytelling project, which includes a story, craft to help tell it, presentation tips, and suggestions for creating additional original stories.  
Subscriptions are available in black and white print edition distributed by mail or online in COLOR on a protected page. The online version is recommended for subscriptions outside the USA.
 
Subscription for 1 year (4 issues/Print Edition) is $15.95. Online Edition is 9.95. To order a subscription go to the Resources Page and print out the order form.
Author Guidelines: We do not publish general stories for young readers. All of our publications provide information on storytelling. The stories we use in our projects are  coordinated with our storytelling crafts and activities. Our audience includes libraries, classrooms, and youth organizations. The reading level is age 9-12.
     We are always interested in learning about local storytelling clubs, programs, and festivals or concerts for young storytellers. Nonfiction articles such as these are assigned. We appreciate a query before sending any material. We cannot accept unsolicited items.

Artist Guidelines: We do occasionally purchase artwork and contract for total units. The Junior Storyteller print issue uses only black and white line art. The online edition uses color.  Please contact us with a query and a sample of your work.

Read Sample Issues: The best way to learn about the material we may be interest in receiving a query about is to read through the list below of back issues. Obtain a sample copy or two. Read  our Fall 2007 Preview Online COLOR Issue  by using the above access codes. 

Thank you for considering our publishing company. Do not hesitate to contact us if you think you have, or would be interested in creating, appropriate material

Back Issues Available
Back issues now are available in a print edition and also as a PDF file attached to an email. Back issues are now $4 each and can be ordered on the Resources Page.

Spring, 1996 - Get Your Audience Into Your Act
Make paper or felt veggies for a special retelling of the Stone Soup story.

Winter, 1997 - Selkie Puppets
Make a selkie puppet ( a doll with a removable seal skin) to help you tell this selkie story.

Winter, 1998 - Telling Science Fiction with Overhead Projector
Photocopy science fiction characters onto overhead transparencies to tell a science fiction story. Make up a story to go with these characters.

Winter, 1999 Tradin' Tales with Grandparents
Learn about intergenerational storytelling and storytelling with paper dolls.

Spring, 1999 Tales of the Wee Folk
Learn how to make pipecleaner mini-folk to help you tell tales of fairies, pixies, leprechauns, elves, gnomes, brownies, nisse, menehune,  nunus and other wee folk.

Summer, 1999 Storytelling in the Car with Pencil Pal Puppets.
Learn how to make Pencil Pal Puppets with spool knitting to help you tell tales during car trips.

Fall, 1999 Tradin' True Horse Tales
Learn how to tell true stories with fiction characters and make feltboard Characters from computer clip art. 

Winter, 2000 – Tandem Telling:  Storytelling With a Friend
Read "A Twisted Tandem Tale." Create new tales from a game.

Spring, 2000 – Telling in Two Languages
Discover a secret for tandem telling in two languages so anyone can understand your tale. 
    

Summer, 2000 – Meet the Fuzzybodies in Draw & Tell
 
Create fingerprint Fuzzybodies for Draw & Tell Tales. Read "The Fuzzybodies Big Move." Create a hero for your own stories.

Winter, 2001 – Creating Diorama Dramas
Make a paper plate diorama. Move a character with magnet and paper clip wile telling the tale. Create more diorama stories.

Spring, 2001 – Storytelling with Portable Pictographs
Ancient people used petroglyphs and pictographs on cave and canyon walls to help tell stories. Create rock art on stones to tell your tales.

Summer, 2001 – Attend a Summer Storytelling Festival
Why keep a Festival Scrapbook? Read "The Best Festival Scrapbook." Print a Festival Scrapbook Page to start a record book.

Winter, 2002 – Friendship Boxes
Great Grandmother's magic box held a Readers' Theater script for two friends to read together.

Spring, 2002 – The Peace Puzzle
Read "The Missing Peace Puzzle Piece." Make a magnetic Peace puzzle. Adapt for younger kids.

Summer, 2002 – Storytelling with Paper Dolls
Read "Key Quest," story. Ct out a paper doll and her clothes. Learn to tell tales with paper dolls. Tips for creating your own quest stories.
     
Fall, 2002 The Magic Storytelling Stick 
Make a Magic Storytelling Stick. "Create Your Own Storytelling Badge" for your youth group.

Winter 2003 Fantasy Fun   
Tell tales with an overhead projector and two transparencies. Make a Sprite move across a scene or a photograph.

Spring 2003
Magic Hands     
Storytelling Gloves let your hands help tell your tales.

Fall 2003
Using a Storytelling Apron
"The Storytelling Apron" shows how to use this special apron. Craft instructions tell how to make one.

Winter 2004Take a Family History StoryQuest    
Create Magnetic Family Tree Cards and put your Family Tree Puzzle together. 

Spring 2004
Dollhouse Dramas
Read
"A Room of My Own." Make Pipe Cleaner Dollhouse Dolls to help tell tales with a dollhouse.

Summer 2004
Traveling with a Storytelling Pillow
Use a pattern story to create your tales. Make a felt Storytelling Pillow with a secret compartment to store the storytelling pieces.

Fall 2004
Group Storytelling with Pop-up Puppets
Turn "The Little Red Hen" into audience participation story with pop-up puppets you can make from a tube sock, Styrofoam ball, and paper cup.

Winter 2005
A StoryQuest for Peace
Collect Peace Pieces in story sentences for your StoryQuest Box. Read "The Peace Angel's Gift."

Spring 2005 Audience Participation With a Sock-Doll Marionette 
Make a simple sock-doll marionette and learn how to use it by playing Simon Says game.

Summer 2005 Convertible Puppets for Storytelling Mini-Clubs
Learn to make a simple hand puppet that can change its clothes to match the story you want to tell. Read "A Fantastic Summer." 

Fall 2005 Tabletop Telling with Storytelling Cards
Discover the fun of  working with storytelling cards. Make a practice set of Fuzzybody Cards.

Winter 2006 Teaching Your Dragon to Fly
Fold the special dragon paper airplane and teach it to fly as you tell a tale.

Spring 2006 Letting Your Audience  Help
Learn how your audience can help tell a Tooth Fairy Story with storytelling signs.

Summer 2006 Creating Today Tales from Ancient Stories
Learn how to use a doll as a puppet to tell modern versions of ancient tales. 

Fall 2006 What's Intergenerational Storytelling?
Read "Grandpa's Ghost: Secrets in the Attic." Make invitations/decorations for intergenerational storytelling party.

Winter 2007 Take a Bright Fantasy StoryQuest
Read "The Sprite's StoryQuest" and play the StoryQuest game on the World of Fantasy Map.

Spring 2007 The Fairy Garden Adventures 
Learn how to build a Fairy Garden and create a series of fairy adventure tales to go with it.

Summer 2007 Time Travel Tales: Creating Historical Fiction 
Learn how to create your own historical fiction stories. Cut out a mini Junior Storyteller.

Fall 2007 Create a Storytelling Slide Show
Learn how to create a slide show to present while telling your tale. Read "A Surprise Inside."
  

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