Margaret Read MacDonald made her career as a Children’s Librarian in public libraries, where storytelling was her great love. She expanded on this work by earning a PhD. In Folklore from Indiana University, which led to adjunct professorships teaching storytelling at the University of Washington and Leslie University. Combining her folklore and children’s librarian backgrounds, she created over 76 publications…including folktale picture books, easy-to-tell folktale collections, how-to-tell guides, folktale indexes, scholarly works, and a series of edited folktale collections prepared in cooperation with tellers from several countries. Invited by Dr.Wajuppa Tossa to teach at Mahasarakham University in 1995, MRM began a longstanding relationship with Dr. Wajuppa and with other tellers in SE Asia, which led to sharing her “Playing
with Story” workshops throughout Asia.
MRM has also performed at festivals in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamica, and Mexico. And has shared stories in Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland, Tanzania; Middle Eastern countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia; Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Hungary, Luxemburg, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and…especially delightful…Iceland! She loves traveling to share stories and meet new tellers! But of course her favorite places to visit are the homes of the FEAST gang!!
MRM’s main mission is to encourage ALL teachers and librarians to start telling stories. To know more about her, visit
www.margaretreadmacdonald.com