The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators presents

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Words Take Wing: Adapting Old Tales for New Audiences
with Beauty and the Beast Storytellers, Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss

Time:   Saturday, April 12, 2008 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Place:    Tokyo Women’s Plaza, Conference Room 1
                      5-53-67 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
                      (by the Children’s Castle and United Nations University).
                      For a map see www.scbwi.jp/map.htm

Fee:     SCBWI Members 1,000 yen; nonmembers 1,500 yen

This event will be in English.

Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton will tell a few stories and explain how they take a folktale and bring it to life for today’s audiences. They will demonstrate the process they use to help tellers and writers find their own voices by having participants do an exercise called “Playing With the Story.” In addition, they will show the brief DVD that accompanies their book Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom.

Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss are a husband and wife team who have been telling stories together as ‘Beauty & the Beast Storytellers’ since 1980. As a result of their extensive experience in teaching students of all ages to tell stories, they have produced several award winning books and recordings including Children Tell Stories: Teaching and Using Storytelling in the Classroom. Their collections of world folktales for students to tell include How and Why Stories, Scared Witless, Noodlehead Stories, Stories in My Pocket, and Through the Grapevine. In the past few years they have also retold several folktales in picture book format including Priceless Gifts, The Ghost Catcher, and The Hidden Feast. Mitch and Martha live in Ithaca, New York, and have traveled the world sharing their passion for storytelling. For more information, see their website: www.beautyandthebeaststorytellers.com

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