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These videos showcase my storytelling from preschool to adult audiences.  Telling to a camera, is of course very different to telling to as live audience, but these will give some indication of my storytelling style.

Storytelling Videos 

Coyote and the Bird 

This my retelling of a Native American folktale. The video was commission by Playeum. 

Take a Little Walk Bear 

Grateful thanks to Margaret Read MacDonald for teaching me this story and to the American preschool teacher who created it and taught it to her.

 

Teaching Guide to Take a Little Walk Bear  

Senguttru 

This is my recrafting of the Javanese folktale Senguttru.

Teaching Guide for Senguttru

Melons  

This story comes from the Warring States period in China (c 475 to 221 BCE). In the original format it was about the State of Wei and the State of Chu. I recrafted it to be about two villages to make it more accessible to a modern audience.   

                                          

Teaching Guide for Melons

Rajah Suran 

This story  is recrafted from a story in the Sejarah Malayu (the Malay Annals). It has been published in four folktale anthologies; in UK, US, India and Singapore.

Teaching Guide to Rajah Suran

No Eyes to See 

My recrafting of  a true story that  took place in Singapore during the  racial riots of July 21 1964. My thanks to Mark Chin  for permission to  tell his story and to the late Goh Sin Tub in whose book I first read it. 

Storytelling Videos 

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