Deborah Strahorn
(404) 758-3262
e-mail kayhorn@juno.com

Recording History, Letting You Dream, Helping you fly,
"Storytelling that brings stories to life"

Deborah Strahorn has worked as a professional storyteller since the late 1990s. She specializes in participatory stories for all ages with emphasis on Teeny Tiny Tales for Tots. Since 1995 Deborah has worked with children as a family child care provider, teaching early literacy to infants and toddlers with her interactive storytelling style.

Creating a story experience that engages the audience she uses rhythm, rhyme and repetition to make books come alive and to enhance the spoken word. Convinced that storytelling is the Voice of Literacy, she supports the youth teller movement and is committed to elevating storytelling as an educational tool to help children sharpen their oral, auditory, thinking and memory skills. Audiences are invited to engage in multicultural stories through the use of song, sound, motion and props.

Making Stories come Alive! - Workshops for teachers, young adults and parents that demonstrate techniques that make stories come to life. Participants learn different methods of storytelling to engage listeners, and to enhance literacy and the spoken word.

She has appeared at the Festival of Trees, Perimeter Mall's Family Fun Days, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, libraries, family reunions, birthday parties and schools; her travels have taken her around the state of Georgia to Albany, Wrightsville, Newnan, & Blakely.

Deborah holds a B.A. in Communications, from Northern Illinois University, with minors in art and theater; as well as a CDA Credential and NAFCC Accreditation for Family Childcare.

She is currently working on her first children's book We Went For a Walk.

"Stories that enhance literacy, facilitate learning and enrich the spirit."