Storyteller "Big Joe" will be at SHAS on President's Day, February 20, 10:30 am

Please join us for Big Joe, the storyteller, on Monday, February 20, the beginning of vacation week. Big Joe's show appeals to preschool- and elementary-age children. Bring your friends - families from Sharon and beyond are welcome!

Admission: $5 per person/$20 family maximum.  Light refreshments are included with admission.

 

 

The Big Joe Story

People often ask me how I developed all the components of the Big Joe storytelling experience. Here is the story about how all the parts of me came to be...

The Name

During my first year as a preschool teacher, we had a boy named Joe. When the other teachers called "Joe" we would both turn around. To correct this, they started calling him "little Joe" and me "Big Joe." From that day on, everyone including teachers, parents, and kids started calling me "Big Joe." In fact, the name stuck for the rest of my preschool teaching career. When I became a storyteller, I was going to use my real name (Joe Pagliuca) but I thought it was too hard to pronounce and wasn't quite catchy enough. Then it hit me, the best name I could use was the one preschoolers had been calling me for years...BIG JOE!

 

The Style

People often describe my storytelling style as "exciting", "energetic", "animated", and "amazing". I have been called a "human cartoon", a "funny force of nature", and (from the Boston Herald) "The Robin Williams of the G-Rated set". Most of my storytelling style comes from my very extraverted personality and my over active imagination. A lot of my style also comes from watching lots of cartoons, a deep interest in Sesame Street, and a love of comic icons like the Marx Brothers, Three Stooges and Charlie Chaplin. Most importantly, much of who I am and how I perform comes from my mom who read me lots of books and told me lots of stories while I was growing up!