Local Storyteller to visit Taylor School Kindergarten

TROY, NY (05/17/2013)(readMedia)-- Local Storyteller Marni Gillard will be sharing her gift and passion for storytelling in school. She will talk with the Kindergarten class at the Susan Odell Taylor School in Troy.

Marni Gillard discovered storytelling while teaching middle school English in Niskayuna, New York. Then after almost 20 years of teaching, Marni left the classroom in 1991 to tell stories full time. Marni performs for all ages at schools and universities, libraries, museums, prison facilities, houses of worship, family gatherings, festivals, even at airport openings.

Marni's tales will inspire her listeners to find stories in themselves. She reminds us all that we have a storyteller alive within.

Her newest book, in progress, is Storytell Your Life.

Marni has written many articles beginning in the mid 1980s, and she co-edited Give a Listen: Stories of Storytelling in School published by the National Council of Teachers of English, a collection of essays by teachers using storytelling in their work.

Without a Splash: Diving into Childhood Memories, is Marni's coming of age double CD of five interlocking stories about a girl's life from age "4 and 3/4" to age 13 in a small town in upstate New York in the early 1960's. Teachers find it full of great models for student writers and storytellers.