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Brief Bio
Mark Binder is the author of numerous award-winning books and CDs. This year, he is releasing two new live story albums, "It was a dark and stormy night..." and "A Holiday Present!" As an author, his work falls into three categories: original and traditional folk-style tales, the “Chelm” series of books and stories, and autobiographical whoppers and lies. His novel, The Brothers Schlemiel was recently published in a beautifully illustrated hardcover edition. It Ate My Sister, is a favorite book for youngsters ages 10 and up (and adults with a sense of humor). His collection, The Bedtime Story Book was written for caregivers to share with their children, and has sold more than 60,000 copies in a dozen editions. He is an award-winning recording artist, the founder of the American Story Theater, and from time to time teaches a college course in "Telling Lies."
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To contact Mark Binder
Pembroke Villa
P.O. Box 2462
Providence, RI 02906
401-272-8707
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Works by Mark Binder include:
Audio Albums
A Holiday Present!
It was a dark and stormy night...
Classic Stories for Boys and Girls
Tall Tales, Whoppers and Lies
The Brothers Schlemiel from Birth to Bar Mitzvah
A Chanukkah Present
Books
It Ate My Sister
The Brothers Schlemiel
The Bed Time Story Book
A Hanukkah Present
Crumbs Don't Count -- The Rationalization Diet
The Everything Bedtime Story Book
More than 200 stories published in magazines including Cricket, The Forward, The Family, Bostonia, Conjure, and Pizza Today .
Awards and Grants
Storytelling World Honor Award
Children's Music Web Award
iParenting Media Award
Storytelling World Honor Award
US Department of Education Grant to Train School Librarians
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Literature
RI Department of Education Innovative Project Grant
Selected articles about Mark Binder and his work...
Storytime With
Mark Binder, Providence Storyteller
By Paul Pence, RI Roads.Com (4/04)
"Storytime With Mark Binder, Providence Storyteller By Paul
Pence The children sit on the floor, barely able to sit still
in their excitement over hearing the voice of baby bear squeek
"Someone's been eating my porriage and they ate it all up!"
Holiday story
session gives peace a chance
by Bryan Rourke, in The Providence Journal (12/03)
"Martial arts meets the holidays, and peace prevails..."
Binder Spins Yarns
About the Ocean State and Beyond
by Donna J. Ursillo (an awesome writer of articles!) (9/03)
"This is no tall tale: Storyteller Mark Binder gives his
audiences a good time..."
in the Rhode Island Parents
Paper
Online Novelist has lesson for Stephen King...
Don't threaten the readers... in Mass
High Tech Newspaper
Dickens For The 21st Century
(OSO.COM)
Audio Review - Wise Schlemiels, Providence Sunday Journal
...Providence author Mark Binder takes the Chelm tales and
gives them a spin, focusing on the adventures of identical twins
Abraham and Adam Schlemiel... Wise
Shlemiels
Cover Story - Providence Sunday Journal, Lifebeat
Section
"Who are the Brothers Schlemiel?... They are Abraham and
Adam, twins born to Jacob and Rebecca Schlemiel. They live in
Chelm... Schlemiels in
Cyberspace (pdf)
Cover Story - Providence Phoenix
"On weekday mornings, Mark Binder can usually be found
at 729 Hope, a cafe near his home on Providence's East Side, drinking
coffee and tapping out the latest chapter of his novel on a laptop.
Describing the foibles of the Schlemiel family, Binder writes
about a mythical 19th-century Polish village that has been a subject
for Isaac Bashevis Singer and other Jewish authors for more than
a century. But in contrast to the old-world setting of his novel,
Binder's finished chapters are distributed to readers in the most
contemporary of ways: via e-mail on the Internet..." Electric
Prose (Providence Phoenix)
Other Stuff
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