Links to Collections of Stories and Tales

 

Aesop's Foibles

http://www.onceuponatoon.com/aesop.html

Aesop's Foibles is the popular comic strip scene in every issue of Storytelling Magazine. At the site you can see every episode of the comic.

 

Bubbe's Back Porch

http://www.bubbe.com/

Abbe Don's Bubbe's Back Porch features stories about her family, other stories she enjoys, and provides you an opportunity to tell her a story.

 

Campfire Storyteller

http://JoeHerrington.com

Site contains information about the storyteller, his cowboy poetry, his Novel and his calendar.

 

Dancing Pony

http://www.dancingponyproductions.com/

Stories for all ages, including articles for teachers about weaving story telling into classroom work.

 

Dennis Trudell

http://www.dennistrudell.com

Dennis has recently retired from being an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin. His poems have been published in seven chapbooks and more than a dozen anthologies. He also writes fiction and has a story in a recent O. Henry Prize volume.

 

Folk Tales

http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edash/folktexts.html

Collection of folk tales

 

"Good Stories From All Over" told by Christopher Leebrick

http://www.allgoodstories.com

Offers a Cd/Cassette collection of world folktales told by professional storyteller Christopher Leebrick

 

iTales

http://www.iTales.com

iTales is an online storytelling community with downloadable mp3 stories for sale by Storytellers.  Storytellers receive a commission on each story sale.

 

Stories for Seasons

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~nilas/seasons/

This site is dedicated to offering seasonal nature stories together with an extensive bibliography for any storyteller, teacher, or general reader who is seeking stories and legends about animals, plants, and the land itself. "Stories for the Seasons" is sponsored by The Nature In Legend and Story Society (NILAS) and H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line.

 

Story Resources

http://www.storyresources.com

Enjoy the incredible value of a stories as a teaching tool.

 

Storybug

www.storybug.net

Storyteller Karen Chace offers a global feast of folktale websites and teaching resources, each with a short synopsis. In addition, there is a smorgasbord of sites focusing on Oral History, Crafts, Arts Education, Puppetry, Grants, and more.

 

The Moonlit Road

http://www.themoonlitroad.com

The Moonlit Road is a storytelling journey down the dark and mysterious back roads of the American South. Each month, this site features odd and spooky folktales from throughout the South (both text and streaming audio versions), told by some of the region's best storytellers. Each story also features a cultural background area where you can learn about where the story came from.