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