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Book Storyteller s Beads

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  • Author : Jane Kurtz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780605027848
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Storyteller s Beads written by Jane Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Storyteller s Beads

Download or read book The Storyteller s Beads written by Jane Kurtz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running for their lives to escape the political upheaval in Ethiopia, two young girls from different faiths form an unlikely friendship.

Book The Girl Who Smiled Beads

Download or read book The Girl Who Smiled Beads written by Clemantine Wamariya and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not—could not—live in that tale.” Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States; there, in Chicago, their lives diverged. Though their bond remained unbreakable, Claire, who had for so long protected and provided for Clemantine, was a single mother struggling to make ends meet, while Clemantine was taken in by a family who raised her as their own. She seemed to live the American dream: attending private school, taking up cheerleading, and, ultimately, graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human, of going hungry and seeing death, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old. In The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of “victim” and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful, and bracingly original, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms.

Book Interactive Storytelling

Download or read book Interactive Storytelling written by Frank Nack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2016, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in November 2016. The 26 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 9 posters, 4 workshop, and 3 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analyses and evaluation systems; brave new ideas; intelligent narrative technologies; theoretical foundations; and usage scenarios and applications.

Book Bead Bai

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  • Author : Sultan Somjee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781475126327
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bead Bai written by Sultan Somjee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakina is an embroidery artist growing up in the shanty town of Indian Nairobi, a railroad settlement in British East Africa in the early 1900s. At home there are many storytellers like her stepmother, grandfather and uncle whose stories blend into histories of India and East Africa that flare her child's imagination. In her tormented married life, while becoming a woman, Sakina finds comfort in the art of the beadwork of the Maasai.Bead Bai is one woman's story inspired by lives of Asian African women who sorted out, arranged and generally looked after huge quantities of ethnic beads in urban and isolated rural parts of the British East African Empire. The availability of wide varieties of beads and colours from the entrepreneurial Indian bead merchant reaching out to the most distant communities, heightened diverse vernacular expressions of body décor. Often it was the Bead Bai - the merchant's wife, mother and daughter, who handled beads that today comprise singularly the most significant material for maintenance of this feminine and indigenous art heritage of East Africa. This is a historical novel drawn from domestic and community lives evolving around women's art. Both are of considerable social and artistic values among two culturally unalike people living side by side as separate yet inter-reliant societies on the savannah. One object is the bandhani shawl of the Satpanth Ismailis, a trading settler Asian African community adhering austerely to a distinct faith tradition rooted in Sufism and Vedic beliefs that imbibed Sakina's spiritual life. The other is the emankeeki, a beaded neck to chest ornament of the Maasai, a pastoralist African people to whom the savannah is the ancestral home and source of their art, spirituality and well-being that Sakina came to value as a part her own life.Note: From the 1970s following the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, Satpanth Ismailis from East Africa began coming to the West, particularly to Canada, in large numbers. Many Bead Bais came with their families to the new country. Some lived through their senior years with their sons and daughters, and some died in nursing homes. Today their descendents live across the provinces of Canada and the greater Asian African diaspora.

Book Blessing s Bead

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  • Author : Debby Dahl Edwardson
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2009-11-10
  • ISBN : 1429946784
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Blessing s Bead written by Debby Dahl Edwardson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey, sailing from a small island off the coast of Alaska to the annual trade fair. There, a handsome young Siberian wearing a string of cobalt blue beads watches Aaluk "the way a wolf watches a caribou, never resting." Soon his actions—and other events more horrible than Nutaaq could ever imagine—threaten to shatter her I~nupiaq world. Seventy years later, Nutaaq's greatgranddaughter, Blessing, is on her own journey, running from the wreckage of her life in Anchorage to live in a remote Arctic village with a grandmother she barely remembers. In her new home, unfriendly girls whisper in a language she can't understand, and Blessing feels like an outsider among her own people. Until she finds a cobalt blue bead—Nutaaq's bead—in her grandmother's sewing tin. The events this discovery triggers reveal the power of family and heritage to heal, despite seemingly insurmountable odds. Two distinct teenage voices pull readers into the native world of northern Alaska in this beautifully crafted and compelling debut novel.

Book Terrific Connections with Authors  Illustrators  and Storytellers

Download or read book Terrific Connections with Authors Illustrators and Storytellers written by Toni Buzzeo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting, productive connections with authors, illustrators, and storytellers are at your fingertips with this resource. Unlike other author visit guides, this book goes beyond nuts-and-bolts planning to how to create the best possible encounters between students and authors. Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to connect with and create meaningful links between bookpeople and children. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, using e-mail to connect with bookpeople, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered. Lists of author/illustrator web pages and managed Internet sites for author interaction are included.

Book Story Beads

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Story Beads written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara A. Barry.

Book A Practical Guide to Storytelling

Download or read book A Practical Guide to Storytelling written by Helen Velikans and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to be a practical source of ideas and materials to support those wishing to provide educational, recreational and exciting storytelling sessions for 0 - 5 years olds. Included is information on storytelling programs for a range of age/stage appropriate material and practical examples and theme ideas for regular sessions, special events and indoor or outdoor presentations. Storytelling should be enjoyed by everyone, so relax and have fun.

Book Beads  Bodies  and Trash

Download or read book Beads Bodies and Trash written by David Redmon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will increase students’ capacity to think critically about and question everyday objects that circulate around the globe: where do objects come from, how do they emerge, where do they end up, what are their properties, what assemblages do they form, and what are the consequences (both beneficial and harmful) of those properties on the environment and human bodies? This book also asks students to confront how the beads can contradictorily be implicated in fun, sexist, unequal, and toxic relationships of production, consumption, and disposal. With a companion documentary, Mardi Gras Made in China, this book introduces students to recording technologies as possible research tools.

Book Youth Ministry Strategies

Download or read book Youth Ministry Strategies written by Michael Theisen and published by Saint Mary's Press. This book was released on 2000-09-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-five field-tested, creative activities complement the Horizons core curriculum and minicourses. Ideas for community-building activities and games, prayer experiences and rituals, liturgical celebrations, and service projects center around six thematic sections. Engage your youth to make Christ's teachings relevant and fun!

Book This Sacred Earth

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  • Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-11-07
  • ISBN : 1136915397
  • Pages : 783 pages

Download or read book This Sacred Earth written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.

Book Martial Arts Collection  Notorious Bandit

Download or read book Martial Arts Collection Notorious Bandit written by Zhixin Lin and published by Zhixin Lin. This book was released on with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Through Children s Books

Download or read book The World Through Children s Books written by Susan Stan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World through Children's Books is a valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others who seek to promote international understanding through children's literature. The annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, contains nearly 700 books representing 73 countries. Sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).

Book A STRING OF AMBER BEADS

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  • Author : HOLDEN MARTHA EVERTS
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-11-01
  • ISBN : 9359953733
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book A STRING OF AMBER BEADS written by HOLDEN MARTHA EVERTS and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A String of Amber Beads" by Martha Everts Holden is a masterpiece of writing that indicates how well the writer can combine ancient detail with exciting story telling. A lot of people assume this is Holden's nice work, and it does a beautiful task of displaying how people join across time. The story is about within the past and follows a thrilling string of amber beads thru generations, representing a hyperlink among human beings and times. Holden skillfully weaves the beads into a tale that spans a few years and offers readers a deep know-how of ways people enjoys lifestyles. Holden's talent as a storyteller is obvious inside the way she will craft a tale that is each stylish and smooth to recognize. The books no longer most effective appears at the beyond, but it also helps readers connect to and recognize the complex matters that took place inside the past. Holden takes his readers on an adventure through the exclusive components of human existence through poetry and prose which can be each creative and passionate. In "A String of Amber Beads," Martha Everts Holden shall we readers travel through time and deal with commonplace issues like love, loss, and power.

Book Storytelling

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  • Author : Ellin Greene
  • Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Storytelling written by Ellin Greene and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook on the art of storytelling, including instructions for selection, preparation, presentation, and planning.

Book Lost Storytellers

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Pendygraft
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2022-09-27
  • ISBN : 0813072328
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Lost Storytellers written by John Pendygraft and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community journalism in the era of clickbait An incisive and firsthand look at the landscape of community news today, Lost Storytellers argues that the decline of local journalism threatens the future of democracy. Award-winning photojournalist John Pendygraft asks: How did Americans lose trust in the media, and how can their local newsrooms earn it back? Pendygraft uses his own experiences at Florida’s largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, to illustrate why trusted local reporting matters more than ever in the era of “fake news,” clickbait, conspiracy theories, and social media. Through interviews with his colleagues, the history of his own paper, journeys into the evolutionary psychology of storytelling, and examples of the ways multinational media conglomerates hook readers on news cycles of chaos and crisis, Pendygraft argues that community journalists can reclaim their roles as local storytellers—and that the public good demands that they try. Lost Storytellers offers insights for all who feel confused about the media, politics, and the well-being of their communities in the information age.