Description
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
“Storytelling is the daisy chain that connects the generations of the human family. It anchors the child by firing the imagination and building the adult. The art of storytelling found in Fairytales, Families and Forests is a guidebook for every parent to explore.”
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees
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
“Thank you for your contribution to the tradition of storytelling. I have just ready ‘Fairytales, Families and Forests’ and I really enjoyed the tales and the way they are told. I keep telling my wife who teaches young children that FFF is one of my favourites. I love, among others Little Mikki and the birthday story.”
A reader in Spain
The Authors
Georgiana Keable lives on Opsal farm. She founded ‘Fortellerhuset’ (The Storytelling House), the Norwegian Storytelling Festival and received Oslo’s Artists Prize for outstanding contribution to cultural life. Her award-winning book The Natural Storyteller is also published by Hawthorn Press.
Dawne McFarlane’s Scottish grandfather gave the gift of storytelling to her. She lives in Canada, or Turtle Island. A mother, performing artist, Waldorf teacher and mentor, Dawne is engaged with global storytelling communities and deeply committed to honouring tradition bearers.
Illustrator
Araiz Mesanza is an illustrator from the Basque region of Spain and studied illustration in Barcelona. She is currently based in Oslo, Norway.
