Storytelling passes down traditions and values while preserving languages and serving as a natural site for linguistic innovation and creativity. This article describes an approach to creating multilingual, multimodal stories that were developed for an after-school club at a rural Tanzanian secondary school. Club members told stories, wrote picture books, and created dramas, all based on the traditional stories their families had told them as children. They conducted these activities in two or three languages each, learning English while reinforcing their skills in their national and tribal languages. The author's hope is that teachers around the world will be able to use these same techniques to connect to their students' cultures and develop literacy skills, and that these activities will support their students' identities as multicompetent multilinguals.