In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force within storytelling and creative drama during the K-12 years.
For the past four years, Jack Zipes has worked with the Neighborhood Bridges Program of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, taking his storytelling techniques into inner-city schools. Speaking Out is...

Author Jack Zipes argues that, despite the consumerisation of children, children's literature, fairy tales and storytelling possess a uniquely powerful capacity to resist the relentless progress of negative trends in culture. He also argues that these tales risk losing their power if they are diluted by commercialism and merchandising.