Nancy Schimmel

Nancy Schimmel started telling and reading stories as a summer camp counselor when she was in high school and college. She became a children’s librarian and then took her favorite part of that job and became a traveling storyteller. She was a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee. Her how-to book, Just Enough to Make a Story: A Sourcebook for Storytelling, is in its third edition. While on the road, she started to write songs, as her mother, Malvina Reynolds of “Magic Penny” and “Little Boxes” fame, had done. Her 1992 album for children, All in This Together, won a Parents’ Choice Award, and another, Head First and Belly Down, was an American Library Association notable recording. Nancy is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.