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Fairytales, Families & Forests is a sequel to Georgiana Keable's award-winning
Natural Storyteller: Wildlife Tales for Telling. In it we discover that we are all storytellers. Telling a fairytale, children will open their eyes wide and stare at us in wonder, but they will look through us and into a world of magic and mountains that connect them with nature.
This book is packed with stunning stories, singing games and rhymes of nature for ages 0-7 years. It is a perfect resource for parents of young children, preschools, nurseries, special needs, forest schools, and kindergartens. It builds confidence for storytelling and helps us create our own stories or find stories that help with problems.
Fairytales, Families & Forests is brimming with ideas for various celebrations and seasonal festivals and shows us how we can use storytelling to explore language development and comprehension. With stories of our connections with various animals and natural phenomena, children will join us to reclaim our forests and nurture our nature.
About the author
Georgiana Keable started out with the Storytelling Nursery in Reading, drawing on Steiner Waldorf early years education. She runs the multicultural Storyhuset in Oslo, tells stories to thousands of children in Norway, teaches at outdoor learning centres in Slovenia and at The Forest Schools Conference in the UK. She walked with her daughter from Oslo to the Lofoten Islands telling and collecting stories on the way. She toured North America with adult and children's shows, based on her first Hawthorn book,
The Natural Storyteller: Wildlife tales for telling.
Dawne McFarlane teaches storytelling across Canada, inspired by her storytelling Scottish grandfather. She has worked with world music and dance with choreographers, dancers, Sign Language Interpreters, musicians, and clowns. As a parent and Waldorf teacher, she has been storytelling and teaching around campfires, outdoor bread ovens, kitchen tables, and in classrooms for over thirty years. She performed at storytelling festivals in Toronto, Vancouver and Edinburgh. She was a faculty member at the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto for 8 years. She lives in Toronto.
Summary
Storytelling with young children. Fairytales, Families and Forests encourages parents and teachers of very young children to tell stories in their family or pre-school. There is a chapter for each year of the childs life from 0-7 years, with age specific stories, verses, games and how to use them, including the use of sign language and special needs. Each year will include ideas for celebrating the seasons, for participation, for harnessing rhythm and rhyme, puppets and crafts.
