If you need help with the nuts and bolts of dreaming up compelling stories for your kids, this is the book for you. Nancy Mellon truly guides and inspires. $18.98
(From the back cover)
Storytelling with Children will help you to:
-develop a regular storytime for everyday, birthdays, holidays
and festivals
-create your own stories using family memories, experiences
and daily events
-explore traditional fairytales, folktales and legends
-use story to help your child deal with illness, bereavement
and other challenging situations
-learn stories by heart using pictures, inner theatre,
and walk about
-incorporate song, music, finger games, puppetry
and story aprons
'Here is a treasure-trove for professionals and beginners - a book borne of years of experience, written from the heart and stirring to the soul. Reading it, I feel the urge to pull my own children close, to light a candle, to begin.... Nancy Mellon inspires us all to be storytellers....'
-Katrina Kenison, editor, Best American Short Stories