Giant and the Squirrel

Chain stories are as popular with adult audiences as with children.
This delightful Swedish tale (ATU 2028) is from my translation of Per Gustavsson’s The Magic Pisspot: Swedish folk tales.

Hallo, Schüler:innen in Magdeburg!
Es freut sehr mich, dass Ihr meine Geschichten hört.
Bittet Eure Lehrer:in mir eine Mail zu schreiben.
Ich würde gerne mehr darüber lernen, wie Ihr storytelling im Unterricht verwendet, damit ich mein Angebot noch verbessern kann. Z.B. seid Ihr im Klassenzimmer oder im home-schooling

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The recording was made at in October 2017 at Café Extra, Büttelborn.


Disclaimer

The video clips here are all amateur quality, shot in various theatres.

Their intention is just to show the range of my storytelling and give a flavour of a live performance.

Permission is granted for use in non-commercial educational contexts.

The videos are © Richard Martin.

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For those who are teachers: Telling stories in the classroom: basing language teaching on storytelling