Publications

Books:

• Folktales from the Japanese Countryside, a collection of 46 of Hiroko Fujita's traditional stories edited by Fran Stallings. The book includes a brief summary of Japanese history by emeritus professor Harold Wright, an overview of Japanese storytelling by Miki Sakurai, and a section of games, recipes, and crafts as well as facinating background notes on the stories.
• Look At That Mouse! Diversions and Stories with a Mouse Puppet by Fran Stallings with Ken Oguss. 6 fingerplays, 13 stories with instructions on how to animate a mouse fingerpuppet, always handy for emergencies. A white or brown minimouse puppet is included! Prairie-Fire Productions, 2002.
• Stories to Play With: Kids' Tales Told with Puppets, Paper, Toys, and Imagination by Hiroko Fujita, adapted & edited by Fran Stallings. Little Rock AR: August House, 1999. ISBN 0-87483-553-4. A valuable handbook for folks who work with smallfry or ESL kids, or who train beginning tellers.
• Hiroko Fujita's FAVORITE STORIES Volume 1 by Hiroko Fujita, adapted & edited by Fran Stallings. Ten stories beloved by American preschoolers and young children during Fujita-san's spring tours of the U.S. -- translated into English, with patterns and directions for making some of her glove puppets.
• Hiroko Fujita's FAVORITE STORIES Volume 2 by Hiroko Fujita, adapted & edited by Fran Stallings. Eleven tales beloved by American adults and older students during Fujita-san's spring tours of the U.S. -- translated into English.
• Stories for Beginners #1 & 2. Each book has 7 easy-to-tell stories, many including simple songs for audience participation. Bilingual stories (English and Japanese) plus Fran's supplement translating the Japanese notes and comments. Tokyo: Isseisha Press, 1999. ISBN 4-87077-154-3 and 4-87077-157-8.
• World Tales 15 easy, short stories and audience participation activities printed in Japanese with English story text in an enclosed pamphlet. Tokyo: Isseisha Press, 2001. ISBN 4-87077-166-7.

(You can mailorder books from Fran)

Fran has contributed stories to the following collections:

• "Stories from the Earthteller," a regular column in The Environmentor, a publication of the Oklahoma Association for Environmental Education, from 2003 to 2006. The columns are reprinted HERE
• "Orosu" Fran edited the translation of this long, poignant, romantic Japanese tale for the Spirit of Trees website.
• "The Story of Paper Flower" in Joining In: An Anthology of Audience Participation Stories & How to Tell Them compiled by Teresa Miller, edited by Norma Livo. Cambridge MA: Yellow Moon Press, 1988. ISBN 0-938756-21-4.
• "The Giant Pumpkin" and "Three Apprentices" in The Ghost & I: Scary Stories for Participatory Telling edited by Jennifer Justice. Cambridge MA: Yellow Moon Press, 1992. ISBN 0-938756-37-0.
• "The Brazilian Beetle" in We Like Kids: A Multicultural Storybook Glenview IL: GoodYearBooks (Scot Foresman), 1995. Tape and storytext book set, ISBN 0-673-36167-5.
• "Shingebiss and the North Wind" (text only) in Best Stories from the Texas Storytelling Festival edited by Finley Stewart. Little Rock: August House Publishers, 1995. ISBN 0-87483-405-8. NOTE: another version of this story is posted HERE with an MP3 file of the chant.
• "1890: The Year of the Turnip in Oklahoma" in Many Voices: True Tales From America's Past edited by Mary Weaver. Jonesborough TN: National Storytelling Press, 1995 with a teacher's guide. ISBN 1-879991-17-9

Articles about storytelling:

• "Storytelling in the Classroom: Following-Up with Bloom's Taxonomy" The National Storytelling Journal, Fall 1986, pp 12-15.
• "The Web of Silence: Storytelling's Power to Hypnotize" The National Storytelling Journal, Spring/Summer 1988, pp 6-19. NOTE: article text is posted HERE
• "In Celebration of Her Story (Women's History)" Storytelling Magazine Winter 1991 pp30-31.
• "Honesty, Respect, Compassion: strengthening character through storytelling" in Storytelling Magazine, January 1997.
• "Leaping the Language Barrier" (with Hiroko Fujita), pp10-11 in Storytelling Magazine March/April 2000.
• "From Folk Tale to 'Fact-Tale': Teaching Science in the Shape of a Story" pp32-34 in Storytelling Magazine, May/June 2002.
• "Crafting Science Stories" (with story "The Demons of Mali") pp 39-41 in Storytelling Magazine, May/June 2005.
• Numerous reviews of storytelling resources in The National Storytelling Journal, Storytelling Magazine, and Territorial Tattler.