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Betty Ann’s amusing and delightful characters will stretch students’ imaginations, attention spans and verbal skills in these highly participatory storytelling programs designed to encourage a love of books and reading.

Choose from the following:

Mother Goose

Mother Goose and her puppet Goosey Loosey share nursery rhymes, songs and stories and offer an intriguing glimpse into the origins of this beloved literary character.

Scatty Scarecrow

Leave the city and come to the country for stories and songs about farm life and forest animals. You’ll encounter scarecrows, possums, bears and foxes and a “Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.”

Mother Nature

Pollution. Global warming. Crazy weather. Mother Nature could certainly use some help caring for her offspring. It’s not “easy being green,” but, after listening to Mother Nature’s stories, students will be eager to try.

Merry Christmas Mouse or Christmas Fairy Godmother

When the winter holidays roll around, invite either of these adorable “ladies” to share the gift of stories—sacred or secular—about Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

Betty Ann Wylie

Born into the storytelling tradition of the Deep South, Betty Ann Wylie was entertained and nurtured by the captivating stories of her parents and grandparents. Read to by her mother from early childhood, she developed a life-long love of books, oral tradition, and storytelling of all kinds.

A founding member of the Southern Order of Storytellers, Wylie is acclaimed for performances filled with stories, poetry, songs, and audience participation. She has performed extensively at festivals, schools, universities, in corporate settings, for civic and religious groups, and in libraries and museums. She mesmerizes audiences with tales beguilingly related, but with the dramatic gestures and voice changes of a born actress.

In 2000, she received the Outstanding Alumna Award for Distinguished Career from the Agnes Scott College Alumnae Association. She has also recorded two CDs of stories, the Parents' Choice award-winning "Mother Goose from Morning Till Night" and the newly-released "Pass It On: A Storyteller's Journey."