Tree with Golden Apples: Botanical & Agricultural Wisdom in World Myths

Tree With Golden Apples is a collection of twelve evocative stories drawn from world myths that reveal both the beauty and truth offered to humans by the plant kingdom. Susan Strauss, a renowned professional storyteller, and educator, begins each section with insights and ideas to help new and established storytellers tell stories in the best way possible. Following each story, the scientific significance of the story is explained, providing a depth of content and connection for the storyteller and the audience. These stories help us connect the rich oral tradition to the world around us.

Susan Strauss is a storyteller, visiting children’s author, natural history author, keynote speaker, creator of The Passionate Fact Interpretive Training Workshop (TM) on Storytelling Science, Natural History & Cultural Information, an environmental educator, natural history interpreter, and studying eurythmist. She is recognized internationally as a storyteller of natural history performances, combining mythic/traditional story with personal anecdote and scientific information to provoke an experience of natural archetypes, including: water, wolves, weather, coyotes, plants, marine life, landscapes, trees, bears, birds, and other creatures, as well as telling fool stories, hero myths, and traditional stories of feminine and masculine archetypes. She gives storytelling performances and storytelling training workshops at cultural centers, museums, aquariums, botanical gardens, National Parks & Forests, interpretive centers, and for conferences of interpreters, soil scientists, sylvaculture scientists, wolf biologists, birds lovers, environmental educators, fine art museum docents, zoo & botanical garden curators, reading and literacy teachers, educators, and visiting author school assemblies throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia.