The C-U Storytelling Guild presents The Teller’s Art: Storytelling for Adults

Wednesday, September 5, 2007 • 7 PM
The Iron Post • 120 S. Race, Urbana
$5

Featured teller
Jenifer Strauss

with
Patricia Hruby Powell

Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved

Patricia's new picture book -
bilingual in Navajo and English

Published by Salina Bookshelf;
illustrated by Kendrick Benally.

"...a stunning work." -- School Library Journal

Available at Amazon.com.

More about Zinnia

Zinnia is a Land of Enchantment Children's Book
2006-07.

Spur Storyteller Finalist Award for Frog Brings Rain. Click to see the 2007 Spur Awards.

Frog Brings Rain wins an Aesop Accolade Award for 2006 granted by the American Folklore Society. Click for details.

Patricia's new picture book - bilingual in Navajo and English

Published by Salina Bookshelf; illustrated by Kendrick Benally.

Click here to purchase Frog Brings Rain at Amazon.

New CD of adult stories: MOVING

Click here to purchase Moving at CDBaby.

Three chapters from a dancing life: Mythical realism, magical realism, and realist realism

In Search of Olympus deftly populates a Greek island with gods, goddesses and nymphs sprung full-blown from the teenaged head of the author as she experiences life there with sailors, fishermen, farmers and her sister dancers. In The Treasure Ms. Hruby relates the magical story of her odyssey into an international career as a dancer in pursuit of the golden fleece of success and the no less elusive funds for it that magically appear, disappear and …. One World returns us to earth with the joy and wonder of nature in stories much like those of Virgil in The Georgics.

Ms. Hruby hilariously relates this myth, magic and reality in a voice that moves with the grace, energy and surprise of dance.

New CD of adult stories: Out of Control

• Corn Relish (for my father and brother) - a story about the difficulty of giving the right gift
• Out of Control - a story about crying and laughing
• Body Hair (for my mom) - a story about my legs, Thor & Esmerelda
• Driving - a story about marriage

Click here to purchase Out of Control at CDBaby.