IN-DEPTH BIOGRAPHY

Storyteller Cherie Karo Schwartz has been telling and teaching in Colorado, around the country, and abroad for over 27 years, sharing over 300 spirit-filled tales of wishes, wisdom, and wonder from throughout the ages and for all ages. Her specialities include worldwide folklore, Jewish tales, and riddle stories.

Cherie performs and teaches in schools, colleges, libraries, museums, synagogues, and for conferences. She provides artist-in-residence and guest author and artist programs, lectures, and keynote speaches. She offers storytelling and training for teachers and docents at the Denver Museum of Natural History, for the DPS Spellbinders (volunteer storytellers), for teachers, for librarians, and for many regional storytellers. Cherie is a founding co-coordinator of the international Jewish Storytelling Association.

She has proiduced five cassette tapes of Jewish stories, including WORLDWIDE JEWISH FOLKTALES OF WISHES AND WISDOM and MIRIAM'S TAMBOURINE. Her first book, MY LUCKY DREIDEL: HANUKKAH STORIES, SONGS, POEMS, CRAFTS, RECIPES, AND FUN FOR KIDS was a Jewish best-seller. Her second book THE KIDS' CATALOG OF PASSOVER: A WORLDWIDE CELEBRATION, co-written by Barbara Rush, wass published in 2000. CIRCLE SPINNING: JEWISH TURNING AND RETURNING TALES has just been published, more information here.