Storytelling in Wilmington, Vermont

The most important part of The Kamishibai Project is its central feature- storytelling.  Storytelling is an art which brings people together.  The storyteller and her audience are sharing a space where meaning is created in a community setting.  The community can be an audience at a public library, in a middle school or elementary school, or a Family Night for celebrating the stories created by children.  For the brief period in time when the audience gathers to hear and see a kamishibai, they are joined in a common literacy and cultural experience.

This year's fourth grade in Wilmington Vermont, shown below, is such an audience.

For these children, making kamishibai in school is part of their social studies curriculum.  The Japanese kamishibai they are hearing are retellings of traditional Japanese folktales.  One student asks, "Why are there so many ogres in kamishibai?"  Oni- also known as ogres- had been featured in each of the kamishibai the class has heard over our storytelling and writing sessions.  I ask the fourth graders "Do we have ogres that appear in stories we're familiar with?"  "There's Shrek!"  replies one student.  "And the ogre in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff!'", says another student.  "No, that was a troll" objects someone.  "True", I moderate, "but the troll served the same function as the ogre in Issunboshi or in Momotaro." 

Here, storytelling is creating a vehicle for students to discuss cultural parallels between familiar Western folktales, some even dressed in modern movie garb like "Shrek", and the Japanese folktales they are learning about through kamishibai.

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