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Fairytales, Families & Forests
Storytelling with young children
Georgiana Keable & Dawne McFarlane
Illustrated by Araiz Mesanza
The sequel to the award-winning Natural Storyteller: Wildlife tales for telling, by Georgiana Keable.
“This superb resource and inspiration will empower parents, teachers and storytellers.” Renata Allen, The Story Museum, Oxford
You will discover that you are a storyteller. As you tell your fairytale, your children will open their eyes wide and stare at you in wonder. But they won’t see you. They will look through you to a world of magic and mountains connecting them with nature.
This book is:
- Jam-packed with stunning stories, singing games and rhymes of nature for ages 0–7 years
- A perfect resource for parents, pre-school, nursery, infant, special needs, forest school and kindergarten educators
- Confidence building, helping you to create your own stories and find stories to meet and deal with problems
- Brimming with ideas for celebrating birthdays and the seasons
- Exploring language development and comprehension using our story tree
- Full of stories of kinship to wolf cub, elf, bat, sun and moon
- Tales to reclaim our forests and nurture our nature
“… [O]pens the gates of wonder in ways that everyone can understand and share across the generations.”
Donald Smith, Director, Scottish International Storytelling Festival
“What a magical and enriching book, filled with wisdom, knowledge and love.”
Danyah Miller, storyteller
Contents
- Introduction, Dr Sebastian Suggate
- The Authors
- Storytelling and language development
- The Oral tradition
- Storytelling with your growing child
- Stories of Outside, Stories for Inside
- Festival Story Year
- Building creativity and confidence
- Storytelling with groups
- Starting a family storytelling circle
- Research on Stories and Education
- Index of Stories
- References and resources
