A guide to storytelling, with a selection of stories from around the world.

Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, Cardan was a faerie child with a heart of stone...and a wicked tongue. Born into a family overburdened with heirs, nourished on cat milk and contempt, perhaps it's no surprise he turned out the way he did. This is the story of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan-- and his visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West-- told wholly from Cardan's perspective.

A translation of the fourteenth-century tales recounted by young citizens of Florence who have fled the city to escape the plague.

A collection of twenty-five traditional stories explaining why an animal or plant or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Following each story are storytelling tips and short modern, scientific explanations for the subject of the story.

A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.

A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.

Readers help fill in the blanks in this story about a lion, told by a father at the request of his child.