Voice and auto-harp/dulcimer duets. Lively, playful fare. Fun to expand into singing, dancing, creative drama. Includes the picture book stories, Fat Cat (Denmark) [Listen to sample] and Mabela the Clever (Limba, Sierra Leone), as well as several stories from Shake-it-up Tales: "Little Old Woman Who Hated Housework" (Scotland); "Conejito" (Panama); "Little Boy Frog and Little Boy Snake"(Ekoi); "Miera, Miera, Meow" (France) and "Telesik" (Ukraine).

Fat Cat and Friends

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Performance by Margaret Read MacDonald and Richard Scholtz

Voice and auto-harp/dulcimer duets. Lively, playful fare. Fun to expand into singing, dancing, creative drama. Includes the picture book stories, Fat Cat (Denmark) [Listen to sample] and Mabela the Clever (Limba, Sierra Leone), as well as several stories from Shake-it-up Tales: "Little Old Woman Who Hated Housework" (Scotland); "Conejito" (Panama); "Little Boy Frog and Little Boy Snake"(Ekoi); "Miera, Miera, Meow" (France) and "Telesik" (Ukraine).

Editions

Audio: CD

2002

August House

0-87483-682-4

Quotes

Margaret Read MacDonald joins forces with musician Richard Scholtz to tell seven folktales from seven countries with verve and enthusiasm

School Library Journal

Author and storyteller Margaret Read MacDonald, accompanied by Richard Scholtz on dulcimer and autoharp animatedly reads seven international folktales. ...A solid addition to storytelling collections.

Booklist

The soft strumming of an autoharp played by Richard Scholtz and the lilting, melodic voice of Margaret MacDonald combine to provide an engaging media for storytelling. ... Sure to become a family favorite.

KLIATT

MacDonald's ...rhyming refrains, combined with Sholtz's lively, lilting music, leave the listener humming long after the CD has stopped playing.

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