Part 1. String stories: How to make good strings for use in telling string stories ; The mosquito ; The farmer and his yams ; Grandmother's candles ; Lizard and snake --
String stories bibliography (pages 45-46). --
Part 2. Picture-drawing stories: The black cat ; The wild bird ; Bō ga ippon = What will it be? ; Number story --
Sand stories: Instructions for making and using a sandbox for showing sand stories on an overhead projector ; The rainbow snake ; Why there is fire in wood --
Picture-drawing stories bibliography (pages 75-76). --
Part 3. Stories with dolls or figurines: Nesting dolls (matrioska): Naughty Marysia --
Trouble dolls: Nothing but trouble --
Why the years are named for animals --
Stories with dolls or figurines bibliography (pages 90-91). --
Part 4. Finger-play stories: To little ____* birds ; The pigs ; The owl and the mice ; The crab --
Finger-play stories bibliography (pages 98-99). --
Part 5. Riddling: A selection of African riddles --
Riddling bibliography (page 101). --
Part 6. Stories using musical instruments: African thumb piano stories: The lion on the path ; Rabbit and the hyena play the sanza --
Stories using musical instruments bibliography (pages 111-112). --
Some suggestions for storytellers --
Sources of stories (pages 115-116).
