She has witnessed or experienced a book's worth of tellable tales, tall or otherwise.
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I get this feeling that our own stories aren't always tellable, but they catch a ride, they hitchhike.
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There's a downstairs sitting room—"If musicians want to take a break," Clark emphasized—with a stocked bar, William Scott busts of Janet Jackson and CeCe Winans, and some show-and-tellable mementos.
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After we met her, we realized that telling her story wouldn't just be better in V.R. It was only wholly tellable in V.R. We were able to tell not only her own unique story, but Liberia's as well.
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In 1998, it won the "Tellable" Stories for Ages 4–7 Award (Storytelling World) and in 1999, the Colorado Children's Book Award."Tedd Arnold." Children's Authors. Answers Corporation, 2006.
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Telling the story of another person or community can be tellable, so long as it is not done to speak for them but rather to reflect on the speaker and to show what they gain from looking at these narratives.
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Tellability is quality for which a story is told and examined as remarkable with its constructed merit. Ochs and Capps examine tellability as the reason a narrative is told. Namely speakers can transform any instance into a meaningful narrative, but most are tellable due to how they deviate from everyday happenings and the prototypical.Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps.
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Margaret Read MacDonald (born January 21, 1940) is an American storyteller, folklorist, and prolific author of children's books. She has published more than 65 books, of stories and about storytelling, which have been translated into many languages. She has performed internationally as a storyteller, and is considered a "master storyteller" and the "grand dame of storytelling". She focuses on creating "tellable" folktale renditions, which enable readers to share folktales with children easily.
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MacDonald combined experience from 35 years as a children's librarian (San Francisco Public; Oahu bookmobiles; Singapore American School; Mountain-Valley Library System; Montgomery County Maryland; King County Library System) with her degree in folklore (Ph.D. Indiana University Folklore Institute 1979) to create tellable folktale collections and picture books "so rhythmic and conversational even a first- time storyteller will be successful." Her folktale picture books, such as Fat Cat and Party Croc! are known for their rhythmic quality and easy readability.
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Kirkus Review notes the patterned text as contributing to MacDonald's trademark style, and encouraging audience participation. In 1995-96 MacDonald was a Fulbright Scholar in Mahasarakham, Thailand, working with Wajuppa Tossa. The project encouraged students to learn and continue to use their local dialects, as storytellers, as well as preserving little-known tales by translating them into English. Stories were translated from the local languages into English, refined as tellable stories, and then translated back into the local language and checked for cultural gaffes.
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The tellability of a story is influenced by the search for truth within the narrative, and this largely changes the story to reflect that truth to the audience. For a story to be tellable it must be believable to those listening. People are more willing to accept stories as true when they are more factual and not discouraging to their sense of security and comfort. Because of this speakers often have to reframe their narratives in order to have other people believe them, especially in different socio-political circumstances.
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