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Recordings by Rafe Martin
Storytelling with Rafe Martin
Audio Recordings
To find out more about the audiocassette versions of Rafe's stories, visit the website of Yellow Moon Press, where along with Rafe's stories you can find contemporary and traditional tapes, CDs, and books that explore history and breathe new life into the oral tradition. |
 Order Animal Dreaming audiotape from www.audible.com or from Yellowmoon.com |
Animal Dreaming: Encounters
"These seven extraordinary narratives are deeply moving and intensely
spiritual. In each, Rafe Martin explores the powerful connection between animals and humans, the experiencing of which can be personally transforming. These
stories are at once painful, haunting, and exhilarating. These are not spontaneous musings, nor do they flow spontaneously form the author's mouth; his reading is occasionally awkward, but nonetheless affecting. The message is that in encounters, such as these, with animals -- domestic and wild, caged and free -- we humans remember who and why we are. All who have pondered the mysteries of life will be deeply moved by these remarkable stories."
"The theme of earth-animal-human unity permeates each of these stories. Rafe Martin is a master at building suspense and using figurative language and imagery, qualities which will hold listeners spellbound. The audio quality is
excellent and the stories are separated by appropriate animal sounds. . . . Public and school libraries serving young adults will want to give this storytelling experience serious consideration. It will also be useful for high school ecology curriculum."
"Rafe Martin touches something transcendent."
"These stories are part of a conversation we all need to have. They challenge us to think personally about our own relation to animals and the natural world."
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Tales of Japan Audiotape Audio Cassette (60 min.), 1989 
his 1990 Parents' Choice Gold Award winner and American Library Association 1992 Best of the
Best for Children contains favorites that Rafe has been telling for years.
"The Boy Who Drew Cats" emphasizes the saving power of faith in
one's own creativity; "Urashima Taro" is a well-known tale in Japan
(in the Catskill mountains he would be Rip Van Winkle);"Ho-Ichi the
Earless" shows we have the power within to triumph over whatever evil
we may face; and "Kogi" is an original story based on an old tale
of a Buddhist priest-painter who dreams he becomes a fish.
"Rafe Martin's convincing delivery and excellent timing cast listeners under
the spell of Japan in these four unusual tales. Well worth the purchase
price."
"These tales and their tellings are eerie, authentic, and magical." |
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 Order Rafe Martin Tells His Children's Books audiotape from www.audible.com or from www.yellowmoon.com Parents'
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Rafe Martin Tells His Children's Books Audiotape
"This rare treat for all belongs in virtually every collection." |
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XXI Public Television of Rochester, N.Y., has just produced a superb video of Rafe doing an oral telling (not a reading or even a repetition of his book's text but a vivid performance) of his most well-known children's book The Rough-Face Girl --mysterious and beautiful. After that he goes on to tell a wild and outrageously funny original version of The Three Pigs. The video also includes a very well-done interview with Rafe on the power and meaning of stories and storytelling. It's highly recommended for the whole family and a great deal at $19.98, plus $2.50 for shipping and handling. Order direct from WXXI by phoning (585) 258-0369 with a credit card or by mailing a check to:
ellowmoon Press writes:"This is our second tape with Rafe, and one whose message
is timely. In clear and eloquent language, Rafe reacquaints us with something
we all know is true--our connection and kinship with the natural world
of animals, plants, and earth. The stories featured here come from times
in Rafe's life when he has felt linked to the natural world. They express
a deep yearning to reestablish our connection to our origins in nature,
and a sense of urgency—this connection will help us all survive. The stories
range from an encounter with two belugas at an aquarium, to a haunting
story of cows that scratch messages with their hooves, to a pet rat named
Lenny, lovingly remembered. If you believe that we are stewards of the
Earth, this marvelous tape is for you and your children."
or the first time, four of Rafe's acclaimed children's books, as actually
told by him, are available on one tape. This audio cassette which is a
Parent's Choice Gold Award -winner, features Rafe's original, oral versions
of The Rough-Face Girl, Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake, The
Boy Who Lived with the Seals, and The Boy Who Loved Mammoths.