This author is one of the master storytellers SunRidge hosted at the last storytelling festival.  He was kind enough to send us two specially signed books.

KENDALL HAVEN is a nationally recognized master storyteller and the author of numerous books, including Marvels of Math, Write Right!, and Close Encounters with Deadly Dangers. A former research scientist, he is based in Fulton, Calif.

Crash Course in Storytelling

Storytelling can be easy, fun, and above all do-able, especially with the simple, easy-to-follow directions given by these two master storytellers. This book provides everything you need to become a master storyteller yourself. Simple examples and summary directions for exercises and games reinforce and demonstrate key concepts. Step-by-step plans help you choose a story, and learn it in preparation for presentation to an audience. Audience management, practice activities, and the authors' motivation exercises are offered as are techniques to guide you through any of the possible major telling problems. Storytelling extras (props to puppets including costumes) and lists of grade-appropriate, time- and teller-tested stories are provided.

That's Weird! Awesome Science Mysteries

Have you ever heard a strange noise at night and wondered if it were a ghost? Is time travel really possible? Do we actually share the universe with other beings? What really happened to the dinosaurs? Science is in the business of explaining phenomena through a process of rigorous, systematic, logical discovery. But what if science can't explain why things happen? Then you have a science mystery. Science mysteries stir the imagination and chill the blood. They make the heart race and the adrenaline pump. They conjure up images of wonders and terrors beyond our control, beyond our world, beyond our imagining. They hold a fascination for us and the scientists who try to solve them.