

Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola
Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola

1. Tales Around the Table
2. Where Do You Get Ideas?
3. What's a Story?
4. Stories for Myself
5. Food as Storytelling
6. That's a Story?!
7. Getting Started
8. Character
9. Setting
10. Point of View
11. Performance as Storytelling
12. Every Picture Tells a Story
13. Making Sense of Our World Through Stories
14. Taking a Chance
15. Finding Your Audience
16. Funny
17. Scary
18. Moods: Happy/Sad
19. History
20. Music
21. Make Believe Stories
22. Real Stories
23. More Than One Way to Tell a Tale - Versions
24. More Than One Way to Tell a Tale - Techniques
25. Putting Heart Into Your Story
26. Collaboration
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The show featured children's book author Tomie dePaola and his Muppet friend Gabe the squirrel, encouraging children to make their own stories in a variety of media. In each episode, Tomie told a story featuring his storybook characters Strega Nona, Big Anthony and Bambolona. Gabe visited The Animal Band, a group of woodland creatures, including a rabbit on drums, a weasel on guitar, a penguin on bass, and a raccoon on keytar. Each episode also featured a visit with a guest storyteller or two (often people connected to the Jim Henson Company). The final segment of each episode included a child actor playing Tomie enacting stories from his book "26 Fairmount Avenue."