Creative Storytelling: Choosing, Inventing, and Sharing Tales for Children

by Jack Maguire

Book Overview

One of the best and most comprehensive books on storytelling, newly expanded and beautifully illustrated. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070395128
• ISBN13: 9780070395121
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great tool for creating, developing, and telling stories

This is absolutely the best book I've found on storytelling for parents. The content makes logical sense, and is more of a "How-to" guide than any other book I've seen on the subject. If you are an aspiring storyteller with a small child (or children), this book will help you tell and/or create stories. Engaging your children in stories is also a great way to avoid the zombie tube.

A wonderful book for those who work with children.

Children NEED to hear stories, and not just from books. They especially need their parents to spend time with them, and storytelling is a wonderful way to do this.This book is full of good information, including some of the history of storytelling. Among others, there is a chapter on learning stories to tell, and another to help with creating your own stories. There is also an ?afterward? that addresses storytelling in relation to environmentalism.Creative Storytelling is a book intended for parents, teachers, day care providers and librarians. It would also be a worthy read for camp counselors. I would recommend it to people in any of these positions.

Excellent source book for anyone interested in storytelling

As a resource for families, teachers, and librarians, this book is readable and reliable. The stories and suggestions about how to tell stories are especially useful. I have used the book for over 8 years in my work as a storyteller in the classroom.