AESOP The Storyteller by Leo Conrad

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you @LeonConradStory #AesoptheStoryteller @LiterallyPR for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Aesop the Storyteller is a collection of fable that are retold in verses. I loved the illustrations, they work very well with the verses. I read this book in an hour and I enjoyed the tales a lot . The verse are well written, and I like that they are about animals. They are catchy stories that are for everyone. They are beautifully written and engaging. Each verse/ stories that are not very long, but these are stories you can keep coming back to and read them with your children. I had some favourites The fox and the Grapes, the fox and the crow and the fox and the ground bird. A great book 5 stars. Blurb Will the stag escape the hunters? Did the lion eat the mouse? And why exactly did the fox invite the stork round to share a meal? Find your own answers to these questions as you engage with the stories retold here by Leon Conrad in the rich oral storytelling tradition. The layout of this book is specially designed to encourage reading aloud. The fables are perfectly complemented by Alessandro Scafi’s charming illustrations. Leon’s virtuosic readings of the poems are also available as an audio book. Bio Leon Conrad is a Story Structure Consultant, Storyteller, and Writer, based in London, UK. He is Founder and Lead Tutor at The Traditional Tutor (www.traditionaltutor.co.uk), Co-Founder and Lead Trainer at The Academy of Oratory (www.academyoforatory.com), Independent Researcher, and is Orator in Residence at the Next Society Institute (www.nextsocietyinstitute.com). As a specialist in historic needlework techniques he teaches and publishes through his embroidery business, Leon Conrad Designs (www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeonConradDesigns). His book, 'Story and Structure: A complete guide' was the ​IPNE Book of the Year winner 2022; IPNE Informational Nonfiction Book Award winner 2022, Storytelling World Award winner 2022; Firebird Award winner; ​​NAA Gold Award winner; Readers' Choice Book Awards Bronze Award Winner; ​IAN Book of t​​he Year Award Finalist; ​​Honourable Mention in the South Carolina Book Festival Awards; and was shortlisted for The People's Book Prize. Votes open from October 2022 to April 2023 at https://peoplesbookprize.com/oct-2022/story-and-structure/. Find out more about Leon at www.leonconrad.com. Leon has run training courses in voice-centred communication skills for business for over 20 years. In 2007, he was poet-in-residence at the first Edinburgh Food Festival and was invited back to be poet-in-residence at the Pleasance Dome the following year. He has written and produced shows combining traditional storytelling and performance poetry which have been performed in Edinburgh and London, the most recent being 'Under The Arabian Moon', a retelling of stories from The Arabian Nights at The Roundhouse in 2009. He is fluent in five languages (English, French, Italian, Russian and Arabic) and can train in all five. He has published several articles in academic journals and trade magazines on the subject of effective communication, and been interviewed on BBC Breakfast television as an expert in the subject. In 2012, he co-hosted 'The Talking Shop', a series of radio shows with Giles Abbott, about different aspects of storytelling. His approach to education stems from his passion for reviving the integrated approach to teaching the classical liberal arts, in particular the word-based Trivium of logic, grammar and rhetoric, as well as taking a combined historical and modern approach to the number-based Quadrivium. He offers tutoring in this approach to students and was a regular columnist for Flight Line Magazine for speakers of English as a second or other language in Russia and the CIS. Leon studied voice with The British Voice Association and at Princeton University. He holds a Master's Degree in the History of Design and Material Culture of the Renaissance from the Royal College of Art, and a graduate diploma from the Trinity College of Music in London. He is a City and Guilds Adult and Further Education Qualified Trainer. Since 2013, Leon has been exploring the links between mathematics, language and logic with polymath Professor George Spencer-Brown, author of Laws of Form. (https://vimeo.com/359954407) He has given a TEDx talk with marimba player Aristel Skribic about The Magic of Words (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYit3MYAoqM) Leon studied blackwork embroidery techniques with master embroiderer Jack Robinson, and has taught for various branches of The Embroiderers’ Guild (UK), The Historic Needlework Guild (USA), The Knitting and Stitching Shows and Madeira Embroidery Shows (UK), A Sampler Gathering (USA), Ackworth School Sampler Guild (UK), The V&A Museum, The National Maritime Museum, The National Trust and English Heritage. He was the first person in 400 years to successfully decode Plaited Braid Stitch.

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