At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time...
Storytelling
- Auteur:Chaucer, GeoffreySommaire:
- Auteur:Quiviger, PascaleSommaire:
This novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Pascale Quiviger is about the bonds of friendship; the ties between mothers and daughters; the act of creation itself. It's a magical, intricately wrought work of art that reveals layer upon...
- Auteur:Zusak, MarkusSommaire:
A young adult novel about how a young girl's love of books helps a community survive World War II and the Holocaust. It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical...
- Auteur:Fraillon, ZanaSommaire:
This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. This novel reminds us all of the importance of freedom, hope and the power of a story to speak for anyone...
- Auteur:DiCamillo, KateSommaire:
From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world. We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong....
- Auteur:Bissoondath, NeilSommaire:
Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of confession. Each time we tell a story, we...
- Auteur:Hart, LivySommaire:
I've got ninety-nine problems and my brother's snarky, smart-mouthed best friend Sam is tangled up in every last one of them. When it comes to firefighter Sam O'Shea, absence-and a regime of tactical avoidance-has been...
- Auteur:Clair, Peter J.Sommaire:
This novel tells the story of two Mi'kmaq individuals, two centuries apart. A girl named Taapoategl shows incredible faithfulness to culture and family in the most difficult of circumstances during the mid-18th century colonization by...
- Auteur:Denning, StephenSommaire:
Business leaders today face many challenges. They must create cooperation, share knowledge, and transmit a vision of the future. By using an appropriate story to illustrate a problem, leaders can draw their staff toward a fuller...
- Auteur:Kinsella, W. P.Sommaire:
Russian Dolls weaves in and out of the real and imaginary worlds of Wylie, a struggling author and self-proclaimed "unreliable narrator", as he finds and then loses his muse, Christie, in their shared home - aptly named the "...
- Auteur:Wooding, ChrisSommaire:
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the phairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself...
- Auteur:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSommaire:
Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the...
- Auteur:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSommaire:
Otter's Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in....
- Auteur:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSommaire:
Nine people get trapped in the basement of an Indian consulate after an earthquake hits their American city. Emotions run high as the building begins to flood and the chance of survival dwindles. In oder to set their minds at ease, one...
- Auteur:Choi, Ann Yu-KyungSommaire:
Yu-Rhee, a young Korean girl, wants to know how to tell time using a clock. Her mother tells her a tale from her childhood based on the traditional Korean practice of timekeeping, where the 12 animals of the zodiac are assigned to 2-...
- Auteur:Macomber, DebbieSommaire:
Argues that each individual's life is a never-ending story, and uses the elements of a story to show readers how to understand their lives better, showcasing the "big picture" God writes in each person's story.
- Auteur:Blue, BeatriceSommaire:
A charming story about kindness, friendship, and magic from a rising star picture book creator. How did dragons get their fire? It all began once upon a magical kingdom, where a fearsome dragon stalked the land. The dragon was mean and...
- Auteur:Anders, Charlie JaneSommaire:
From Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night , this is one of the most practical guides to storytelling that you will ever read. The world is on...
- Auteur:Lobel, ArnoldSommaire:
When Papa's seven little mouse boys ask for a bedtime story, Papa does even better than that—he tells seven stories, one for each boy! This Level Two I Can Read is geared toward kids who read on their own but still need a little help....
- Auteur:Jones, LloydSommaire:
Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel 'Great...