Introduction : the need for story / Anne Haas Dyson, Celia Genishi
Connections between story, self, and others : why do we tell stories? Multiculturalism, community, and the arts / Maxine Greene
Life as narrative / Jerome Bruner
The power of personal storytelling in families and kindergartens / Peggy J. Miller, Robert A. Mehler
Ways with stories : whose stories are told? Whose stories are heard? Multicultural literature for children : towards a clarification of the concept / Mingshui Cai, Rudine Sims Bishop
What is sharing time for? / Courtney B. Cazden
"The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice" : African American student writers / Geneva Smitherman
Gender differences and symbolic imagination in the stories of four-year-olds / Ageliki Nicolopoulou, Barbara Scales, Jeff Weintraub
"And they lived happily ever after" : cultural storylines and the construction of gender / Pam Gilbert
Weaving communities through story : who are we? Princess Annabella and the black girls / Vivian Gussin Paley
"I'm gonna express myself" : the politics of story in the children's world / Anne Haas Dyson
"All the things that mattered" : stories written by teachers for children / Sal Vascellaro, Celia Genishi
The contribution of the preschool to a native American community / Susan J. Britsch
Stories as ways of acting together / Shirley Brice Heath
Writing as a foundation for transformative community in the Tenderloin / Carol E. Heller
Conclusion : fulfilling the need for story / Celia Genishi, Anne Haas Dyson.
