Teller McCaffrey creates and collects tales, fables, and parables for children of all ages that express the best of human values.

I tell both religious and non-religious stories, whichever is appropriate for the venue I am performing at.

For religious stories, I create and collect stories following two principles of St. Ignatius of Loyola:

(1) “Enter through their door but be sure to leave through your door.” For example, in The Greatest Christmas Toy Ever, children listeners enter into a toy store in which all the toys compete with each other to see who is the greatest (their door) and at the end of the story all the toys are genuflecting in front of a wind-up Nativity scene because they understand who really is the greatest (your door).

(2) Finding God in all things. For example, in Connecting the Stars, young Timmy loves connect-the-dots books because they reveal a picture at the end. When Timmy tries to connect all the stars in the sky in the right order, he gets just a glimpse of what the Face of God might be like and how amazing it is.