The stones hold the stories since ancient times. Below is a partial listing of the many stories that Taleypo tells. Some stories are new; some are old. Listen carefully and you will hear the wisdom passed down through the ages. Some of these stories were passed down through the oral tradition, others were read in books, and still other come from the wild imagining of...
Taleypo, the Storyteller.
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Around the World |
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Americana |
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Fractured Fairytales |
By Genres:
Folktales Personal Stories Original* and Literary
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Anansi and the Hat Shaking Dance (African) |
When Memories Come "Fourth" (Great Aunt Josie -1904 World's Fair) | The Paper Bag Princess (Munsch) |
| Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock (African) | Peaks and Valleys (Academy of Notre Dame Reunion) | The Mexican Jumping Beans (author?) |
| Baby Leopard (African) |
My Friend, Jane (Story about my good friend, Jane) |
Caps for Sale (Slobatkin) |
| Blue Faience Hippopotamus (Egyptian) | Sunday Visits (visiting my grandparents) | Harry and the Terrible Whatzit (Gackenbach) |
| Br'er Possum and Br'er Snake (American South) |
Class Act (my father) |
Pink and Green Silver Paper Toffee Paper (Barton) |
| Br'er Rabbit and Father Christmas (American South) | Remembering Adelia (my mom's story about her mother) | Jar of Rosemary (Adpt. from Maude Lindsay) |
| Chit-chat (African) | The Magic Orange Seed (my sister, Melissa) | Do Not Open (Brinton Turkle) |
| Clown of God (Italian) | Makin' Music (Storyelling, piano lessons) | Liza Lou and the Yellow Belly Swamp (Mercer Mayer) |
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Conjure Wives (American South) |
Who's My Neighbor (present- day Good Samaritan story) | The Rose Child (Jane Yolen) |
| Cough Drops Stops Coffin | 101 Uses of My Granpa's Cane (a story about my Grandpa Joe) | The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde) |
| Coyote and Bear (Wisha Hisha) | The Last Punch (grandpa and the Fairview Picnic) | Once a Good Man (Jane Yolen) |
| Coyote Dances with the Stars (Cherokee) | The Gift of the Hummingbird (sign from my mother) | The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Scieska) |
| Creaking Door (Puerto Rico) | My Charlie Doll Doll (a special doll at Christmas) | Millions of Cats (Wanda Gag) |
| Darby the Tailor (Ireland) | HolyCards! (fourth grade heroine) | Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 3 American bios) * |
| Dark, Dark Night | Storytellers Beware! We Are Becoming the Stories We Tell | Red Shoes for a Real Princess * |
| Face in the Window | The Great Crab Apple War of '56 (neighborhood story) | Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) |
| Foolish Man (Armenian) | My First Holy Communion | Nattie's Wild Hare* |
| Freedom Bird (India) | Angel of God (first grade and angels) | If You Say So, Claude (Nixon) |
| Grandmother Spider Brings the Light (Cherokee) | The Artist's Palette (Grandmother artist and storytelling) | Blue Silver (Carl Sandburg) |
| Horse Blankets | The Call of the Mourning Dove (Grandpa Joe and signals) | Middle Woman (Orson Scott Card) |
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How Porcupine Got His Quills (Seneca) |
Uh-oh! (vignettes about marriage) | Abiyoyo (Pete Seegar) |
| How Possum Got His Tail (Creek) | I Can Fly (based on a childhood book) | Monkey's Paw (Joseph Jacobs) |
| How the Animals Were Formed (Iroquois) |
Do You See the Lights (Christmas Story - Father's Death) |
Once a Good Man (Jane Yolen) |
| How Turtle Got His Cracked Shell (African) | Faces of Christmas Past and Present (a special ornament) | The Giant's Big Toe (Brock) |
| Hobyahs! (England) | TeenAngel (Teen Town) | The Chimes (Erma Bombeck) |
| Jack and the Haunted House (Appalachian) | Showtime! (Kindergaten Christmas Show) | Looking For Spring (Bethany Roberts) |
| Joheha and the Crayfish (Seneca) | Dance, Harlequin, Dance (a dancing doll at Christmas) | Wishing Star (Bethany Roberts) |
| Lazy Jack (Appalachian) | Tale of a Seventh-Grade Something Else - (7th grade shenanigans) | Sleeping Ugly (Jane Yolen) |
| Legend of the Blue Bonnet (Texas-Cheyenne) | Our Diamond in the Rough (Story for Rita's memorial service) | The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything (Williams) |
| Mary Culhane and the Dead Man (Ireland) | Shards of Memory (prosem - Academy of Notre Dame) | Polar Express (VanAllsburg) |
| Mr. Fox (England) | Little Things Make a Big Difference (story for Aunt Ethel's memorial) | McGoogan Moves the Mighty Rock (Gackenbach) |
| Old Woman and the Red Pumpkin (Bangladesh) | Journey of the White Horse (memiors of trip to England) | Let the Little Children Come Unto Me * |
| Ole Bill (Series of Mississippi River Stories) | The Day the Angels Sang - my mom's story | St. Francis as I Live and Breathe * |
| Rumpelstiltskin (Germany) | A Bottled Up Memory - my brother and a broken milk bottle | Tiger Who Lost His Stripes (Paul) |
| The Salt that Spoiled the Preachin' (American) | Hold On! - Larry and his father | Pigs! (Munsch) |
| Skunny Wundy and the Stone Giant (Iroquois) | Oh, On This Day, Oh Beautiful Mother - 6th grade memoir | Purple, Green, and Yellow (Munsch) |
| Sody Salliratus (American South) | The Family Tree - A Hodgepodge of Christmas Memories | This Little Light of Mine * |
| Stackalee (St.Louis - American) | A Touch of Christmas | The Demon Goat* (fractured Bill Grogan's Goat) |
| Tailypo (American Legend) | How Did You Know John? Memoir to John White | The Frog Prince* (fractured Frog Prince) |
| The Hairy Man (American South) | On Butterfly Wings Memoir to Jackie Torrence | A Star at Christmas (version of apple story) |
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The Piasa (Illinois Legend) |
A Round Way to Get To It - a tongue and cheek tale about my story journey | The Gingerbread Man Taleypo's original Christmas version |
| The Schnook Family (American South) | SS Admiral, I Salute You - yearly excursions on the SS Admiral in St. Louis | A Bed Fit for a King * An original Christmas Story |
| The Three Wishes (Swiss) | A Real Yankee Doodle Dandy - a memorial tribute to my brother, Bill | Black Bubble Gum - adapted |
| Tiki -Piki Boom-Boom (Jamaica) | The Wife's Story Ursala L' Guin | |
| The Vampire Skeleton (Iroquois) | Phantamagicorical by Richard Thompson | |
| Whistling Tsonqua's (NW Coast) | Too Much Noise on Halloween Night - adapted from The Noisy House | |
| Why the Leaves Change Colors NE Native American) | Santa's Noisy Christmas- adapted from The Noisy House | |
| Wicked John and the Devil (Drama Choir) (American South) | Teeny Tiny Witch Looking for Halloween - adapted story from Bethany Roberts | |
| Zomo the Rabbit (Africa) | The Empty Pot by Demi | |
| Vanishing Hitchhiker of Sunset Hills (Local urban legend) | The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland |
| The Devil's Bridge (localized version of French Folktale) | The Legend of the Poinsettia | |
| Anansi Brings the Stories (Africa) | Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter | |
| Rabbit the Arrow Maker based on Lakota legend | Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni | |
| Coyote Brings the Light California Indians | Fables by Arnold Lobel | |
| The Hairy Toe - American | The Little Engine That Could by Waddy Piper | |
| The Magic Brush Chinese | The Gunniwolf by Wilhemina Harpter | |
| The Legend of the First Jack-o-Lantern | Baby Rattlesnake as told by Lynne Maroney | |
| Clancy and Lady Death - Celtic | Rebeccah * - Story told from Bible on "Let the Little Children Come unto Me" | |
| Timpingee - Haiti | The Blue Rose my adaptation of a folktale from China | |
| How Groundhog Lost His Tail | ||
| How Chipmunk Got His Stripe - collected by Joe Bruchac | ||
| Why There are Phases of the Moon | ||
| Coyote and the Constellations | ||
| Fritz, Franz, and Frederick - German Christmas story | ||
| The Christmas Apple - German Christmas story | ||
| The Cracked Pot | ||
| The Precious Ruby | ||
| Lady Truth | ||
| Little Red Riding Hood | ||
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears | ||
| Hansel and Gretel | ||
| Jack and the Beanstalk | ||
| The Gingerbread Man | ||
| The Turnip | ||
| The Little Red Hen |
| Chicken Little | ||
| The Mitten Ukrainian | ||
| The Wide-Mouth Frog | ||
| Sandy the Toad Frogs Southern | ||
| Stone Soup | ||
| The Three Billy Goats Gruff Norwegian | ||
| The Three Little Pigs | ||
| Sweet or Sour? India | ||
| No News | ||
| The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg | ||
| The First Rainbow from Stories the California Indians Told | ||
| Legend of the Cedar Tree Cherokee | ||
| Little Eight John American South (drama choir) | ||