Carol McCormick's Storytelling Programs
Helping Imaginations Fly!
For Schools, Families and Adult Audiences
Ears perk up, eyes widen, and imaginations spark when Carol McCormick shares stories! She has a large and always growing repertoire of tales and can create a special program for your event, conference, venue, or Library Summer Reading Program. Carol's colorful seasonal costumes include a variety of engaging characters.
Carol McCormick has dedicated her life to helping imaginations take flight. Her stories empower audiences to see themselves as creative, brave, and blessed.
Through her engaging programs, Carol stretches the mind, offers new perspectives, encourages laughter, and sparks imagination. She believes that language and creativity are not only essential but must be provoked and practiced.
For Carol, storytelling is more than performance - it is connection, transformation, and a vital part of life itself.
Program Options:
✨ Customized Storytelling
Carol will create a unique performance tailored to your venue, event, conference, festival, fair, and community celebration, including Library Summer Reading Programs.
🎭 Costumed Characters
Bring extra fun and magic to your event with Carol’s costumed characters (Seasonal & Holiday).
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The Snow Queen
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Mrs. Claus
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Ms. Val N. Tine
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Shamrock O'Toole
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Wanda the Witch
⏱ Program Length: 20-60 minutes (45 minute average)
👥 Audience: Tailored to the age and setting
🦋 Featured Programs
❄️ Winter Tales
Heartwarming stories and songs celebrating winter and the coming of spring. Holiday versions inspire generosity and kindness. Winter stories inspire generosity and kindness.
All ages
🌍 We Are All One Family
Interactive multicultural stories and songs with animals, heroes, tricksters, and monsters that highlight our shared humanity.
All ages (specific cultures available by request)
☮️ Making Peace
Stories and songs that inspire empathy and compassion through tales and songs with themes of withholding judgement, accepting ourselves and others, choosing hope, using creativity, and working for justice.
All ages
🌱 Make Every Day Earth Day
Stories of caring for Mother Earth, spiced with songs and a little eco-rap fun!
All ages
📚 I Love to Read!
Inspiring tales that celebrate books and reading. Perfect for book fairs and literacy events.
Preschool–Grade 6
🧚 Once Upon a Time
Adventuresome folk and fairy tales to delight, inspire, and ignite imaginations.
All ages
🐢 Tales of Tails
Multicultural call-and-response stories and sing-alongs featuring animals, fish, birds, turtles, and dinosaurs.
Audience: Preschool–Grade 3
💖 What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Explores love’s many paths—lasting, lost, or hard-won—through lessons learned.
Ages 16 to Adult
👩 HERstory
Stories and songs of women who shaped history as Agents of Change. Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Grade 6–Adult
🍎 Modern Snow White
Carol’s personal story of living with depression, sharing strategies for healing and hope.
Adults
🎃 Facing Fear
Spine-tingling stories for all ages. A family-friendly format allows younger children to enjoy lighter tales before crafts and games, while older kids and adults stay for more chilling stories.
Preschool–Adult
🕰 Wisdom of the Ages
Thought-provoking and humorous stories to inspire reflection and laughter.
Grade 4–Adult
Booking Information
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Length: 20–60 minutes (most programs ~45 minutes)
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Audience: Preschool through Adult (see age ranges above)
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Customization: Programs can be adapted to specific themes, cultures, or events.
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Availability: Schools, libraries, churches, festivals, conferences, corporate training, and family events.
📩 Contact Carol to book your next event.
🛠️ Storytelling Workshops
Carol also leads interactive workshops to help participants
use storytelling as a tool for connection, leadership, and creativity.
🤲 Weave Us Together: Storytelling to Build Community and Create a Better Future
Turbulent times require empathy and teamwork. Learn to craft stories that connect, heal, and inspire collective action. Includes handouts with short stories designed to nurture empathy.
Format: In-person or Zoom
Audience: Adults
Duration: 90 minutes
Next Session: Saturday, November 15, 2025 · 2–3:30 pm CDT
Cost: $90 per person | $30 Limited Means | $135 VIP (includes two 20-minute coaching sessions)
🌟 Lead with a Story
Take your stories froom good to GREAT! Learn how great leaders use stories to motivate, inspire, and instill values. Transform everyday conversations into meaningful moments with, “That reminds me of a story...” Give the gift o discovering the answer for themselves
Format: In-person or Zoom
Duration: 90 minutes – 3 hours
Audience: Adults
🎤 Be a Storyteller!
Learn and practice techniques for telling compelling tales to entertain, educate, and inspire. Includes handouts with sample stories.
Format: In-person
Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: Grade 4–Adult