NSN Storyteller Profile ... Barbara Chamberlain

A storyteller for thirty years as an elementary school librarian, Barbara enjoys working with children and introducing them to good literature. She has also done writing and storytelling workshops for adults. She performs adapted Armenian folktales such as "The Donkey Egg," and "Brave Nazar."
During the holidays she helps out Santa by doing storytimes as Mrs. Claus.
"Ride the West Wind" and "The Prisoners Sword" were named recommended reading by the National Council of Teachers of English and sold 50,000 copies. She has also written numerous short stories that have been published in Teens Today, Straight, Jack and Jill, Pacific Press Publications, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Barbara received her masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and her bachelors from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She was named Outstanding Woman of Santa Cruz. Besides being a school librarian, she has worked as a reference librarian at Harrison Memorial Library in Carmel, California, and Monterey City Library in Monterey, Calfornia

Armenian folktales, folktales, myths, tall tales, storytelling for elementary children, Holiday stor

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Pajaro Valley Unified School District, California, can apply to others.

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