Mama Linda is co-author along with her husband, Clay Goss, of several books:
- The Baby Legend book and cassette tape (Bantam)
- It's Kwanzaa Time (Putnam)
- Jump Up and Say, an anthology of African-American Storytelling
- Talk that Talk - selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best paperbacks 1990
Mama Linda is the author of:
- The Frog Wanted to be a Singer (Orchard Books)
- "The Tree of Love", in I Hear a Symphony, Woods and Liddle (Anchor/Doubleday Books)
- "The Ghost Hunt" is in the anthology, The Ghost and I (Yellow Moon Press)
- "Rabbit at the Waterhole" is featured in Joining In, an anthology of audience participation stories (Yellow Moon Press).
Pennsylvania Humanities Council – Humanities on the Road
Mama Linda Goss and Papa Ed Stokes – “Can’t Tell a Lie Peach Cobbler Pie”
Through an uplifting, hand-clapping and foot-stomping participatory presentation, Linda Goss, accompanied by percussionist Ed Stokes, shares oral histories, family narratives, folktales, legends and play-party songs from the African American tradition. Goss demonstrates how chants and rhythms (many gathered from her rural Tennessee childhood) are used to enhance a story, while Stokes plays home-made stringed instruments. A variety of easy-to-play musical instruments are available for audience members to use. Participants also are encouraged to share a family tale, recall a favorite rhyme or join in a hand-clapping game.
1/4 "Peach Cobbler Pie"
2/4 "Peach Cobbler Pie"
3/4 "Peach Cobbler Pie"
4/4 "Peach Cobbler Pie"
Linda Goss' Butterfly
Other Resources:
Traditional Storytelling In Africa
African Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling Show
