Tag: Therapeutic Storytelling

A Light for Little Gnome’s Lantern by Susan Perrow

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After The Little Gnome Who Had To Stay Home, a story written for young children coping with lockdown, author and Therapeutic Storyteller Susan Perrow has written another story to help young children at the end of this difficult year – A Light for Little Gnome’s Lantern.

Image taken from the official animation of The Little Gnome Who Had To Stay Home

The story sees Little Gnome reaching for the stars as he searches for a light for his lantern that is fading after a long, busy year.

You can download the story for free from Susan’s website.

A number of story videos and podcasts can now also be found on Susan’s website here.

Susan’s new book, Stories To Light The Night: A grief and loss collection for children, families and communities will be published by Hawthorn Press in February 2021.

Susan Perrow Story News

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The wonderful Susan Perrow, author of Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour and Therapeutic Storytelling, has recently been on a trip to China. She has this to say.

Australian – China Story Pathways

I have just returned from a five week trip to China where I was busy in four cities with book launches and therapeutic writing workshops

My third collection of children’s stories has just been released in Mandarin and the Beijing publisher surprised me with a box set of all three books. This third collection is markedly different from the previous two as almost every story in the 55 story collection has been illustrated by a wonderful Beijing artist called Wenlu.

Earlier this year, after the explosion in Tianjin, word apparently went round some schools in this city that some of my stories help children with anxieties, and there was an order in one week for 3000 books from ‘danddang.com‘, the biggest online book seller in China.

Wenlu

On my return I have had a meeting with Katie Grubb (www.mandarinpathways.com) and we will be co-ordinating some story work together for her next group of Chinese students who will be visiting the Byron Shire in February 2016.

My Australian-Chinese story work continues to grow!

For more information about Susan Perrow and the work she does, visit www.susanperrow.com

Susan Perrow in Chennai

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Hawthorn Press author Susan Perrow  was in Chennai in February as a visiting co–host of the Chennai Storytelling Festival which focussed on Storytelling and Healing. Sudha Umashanker from The Hindu newspaper spoke with her and  her colleagues Magdalene Jeyarathnam and Eric Miller.

When a six-year-old refused to sleep for days on end and was bent on forcing herself to stay active her mother was not only physically exhausted, she was clearly at her wit’s end. This was not just a case of sleep deprivation. The little girl’s father had died while she was asleep and ever since she simply kept awake through day and night.

What would you do help this child?  Susan Perrow crafted a beautiful story.