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Three-Minute Tales

Three-Minute Tales

by MacDonald, Margaret Read
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Anyone who teaches, lead, or speaks in public has had the experience of needing to fill short amounts of time in order to hold the audience's attention. The challenge is familiar to Margaret Read MacDonald, who for thirty-five years told stories to preschoolers every week.

Here are more than eighty simple, short, pithy tales for many occasions: holidays, museum tours, history or nature walks, public speaking, media appearances, school visits, curriculum boosters. These traditional tales come from China, west Africa, Mexico, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, Syria, Cuba, the Ukraine, India, eastern Europe, and the Jewish, native American, and African-American traditions.

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BrandAugust House
Pub dateDec 15, 2005
ISBN-100874837294
ISBN-139780874837292
Paperback160.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions9.9 × 0.43 × 6.96 in
Weight1 lb
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