Tuesday Tales-Master of all Masters

SORRY on the quality...I tried to make it all fancy, but...you see what happened.

This is the book I signed out from the library all those years ago. It was loads of fun to tell this story then hold up the book and say to kids they too could go the library and find this book and others like it filled with great stories!

Um, not the actual actual book I should say this is what it looked like. I did return my copy, lol!






Master of all Masters-original and alternate re-tellings

Master of All Masters-Joseph Jacobs
The Master of All Masters
Master of All Masters audio recording from LibriVox.

Suggestions for learning and re-telling:

-remember the basics. don't try and memorize the story, just the bones. the maid and the man meet at the market because she is looking for a job as a housemaid. the man hires her, they go back to his house. he has special name for himself, for his bed, for his pants, his cat, the fire, the water, his house. you can learn what they are OR make up your own. this is a fun writing activity btw! in the end she wakes him up to tell him to get out of bed and put on his pants because the cat has a spark of fire on her and if they don't get some water on it the whole house will be on fire!

-as an activity for kids, create the characters for them. you need a man, a maid, pants, bed, cat, fireplace, water in a bucket, house. these can be put in an envelope or on sticks or make finger puppets out of them. on the back they can put the names for the things as the man described them or put their own made up names. great and fun way to remember and re-tell. Thanks for joining me on this adventure. I imagine my vlogging and how I do this series and other booktalks (see my first vlog here) will change over time. And yep...thinking a few less scarves and possibly not quite so close to my face when telling a story! Any other thoughts, tips, story requests, please let me know!