Books by Elisa
Once Upon A Time: Storytelling to Teach Character and Prevent Bullying
Lessons from 99 Multicultural Folktales for grades K-8.
Winner of the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards for 2009!
Character Education Group, Chapel Hill, N.C.
To order from the publisher please visit or call: www.CharacterEducation.com (888) 262-0572 (Toll Free).
8-1/2 x 11, Soft cover, $27.95. (Retail)
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You can receive a signed and discounted copy from Elisa by mailing her $27.95 which includes shipping and handling.
This book features 99 folk tales from around the world addressing 12 character traits: Cooperation, courage, diversity appreciation, empathy, friendship, generosity, honesty, leadership, respect, responsibility, perseverance, self-control, and there is a chapter on bullying prevention. There are follow-up suggestions for teachers and parents after each story. There is also extensive information for teachers on how to tell stories effectively in the classroom and how to help your students to be effective storytellers.
Winner of the 2007 Storytelling World Honor Award in Specialty Categories.
"We use this book as the central text in our graduate degree class,
'Storytelling and Character Education', at Southern CT State University in New Haven, CT. It is a universally loved book by our students, mostly teachers and librarians getting advanced degree credits. They all report using the stories and activities from the book in their classroom and work situations, and many of them have said they have found it to be the most useful text of their entire graduate program.
The stories and activities are all laid out in a clear and easily accessible manner,
and all are directly on point to the subject at hand."
Barry Marshall of The StoryCrafters
"No K- 8 teacher - and no storyteller who performs
for that age group - should be without this book."
Storytelling Magazine, July 2006
Doorways to the Soul: Fifty-two Wisdom Tales from around the World
(1998) Formerly Pilgrim Press. Reprinted in 2007 by Wipf & Stock.
Winner of the 1999 Storytelling World Honor Award for Anthologies. (3rd Printing).
Doorways is an excellent resource for middle school teachers, librarians, families, religious educators, ministers, and anyone in the healing professions who wishes to use stories as an educational or therapeutic tool. While written for adults, many elementary and middle school teachers and parents report using the book regularly in their classrooms and homes.
Doorways to the Soul features 52 short wisdom tales (mostly folk tales), from many of the world's spiritual traditions and cultures. Following each story Elisa has written suggestions to help the reader to make a deep and lasting connection to the story. She suggests that readers take in the stories one at a time, reading one per week, to give it time to digest, and become a part of the psyche. Most readers report that they read the all the way through in a short time and then go back and do as she has suggested.
You can order from Elisa and pay the special price of $14.00 which includes shipping and handling.
Kudos for Doorways to the Soul
"A lovely collection of short tales from different spiritual traditions." The Living Church
"The more I work with this book the more I like it. I put it on a list of best books to use with teen telling. A charming gift for anyone who needs to learn the value of story." Margaret Read MacDonald Ph.D., Author, Librarian.