Postcard from High Valley
What a special moment. As I spoke the words in Journey to the West: “What did Monkey King find? To be concise, a paradise. A paradise on earth.” And at that moment, Jeff and I were looking at an Australian Paradise — the High Country. Share with friends and family:Tweet
Read MoreInanna, ahora en español
Atención, estimada público: The Mexican publisher Cien del Mundo (the imprint of Dirección de Publicaciones del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, in Cuauhtemoc) has finally published a new Spanish translation of the Diane Wolkstein/Samuel Noah Kramer book Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth — Inanna: Reina del Cielo y de la Tierra, to be exact. Elsa Cross is the translator we thank for making Diana’s book available to the Spanish–reading...
Read MoreThe Magic Orange Tree CD:
Storytelling World Award Winner!
Last year, Diane’s latest CD, The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales received the Fall of 2010’s only Parents’ Choice Gold Award medal in their Audio/Storytelling category. Today, we learned that the album has been declared one of the winning Storytelling Recordings of the 2011 Storytelling World Resource Awards (Category 6 in the list on their website). Learn more about the album and purchase your copy (as a physical CD or digital download) now! Share with friends and...
Read MoreMonkey King comes to Village Community School
Here are some scenes from Diane Wolkstein and Jeff Greene’s performance of the Monkey King Epic for the lower–grade students at Village Community School in New York City earlier today: All photographs by Mark Roberts. Share with friends and family:Tweet
Read MoreKorean edition of “Mother of the Waters” and Audio CD
Girl scrubbing the old woman’s back (from the Korean edition of “Mother of the Waters” Not only will “Mother of the Waters” (a story from the The Magic Orange Tree) now be available as a book in Korean, but it’s also simultaneously being re-released in audio format as a CD by The Great Books Foundation! The Korean books is published by Hansol Education and comes with beautful illustrations. Share with friends and...
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