Tell Me a Fairy Tale: A Parent's Guide to Telling Magical and Mythical Stories

By Bill Adler Jr.

Book Overview

Is your three-year-old getting tired of hearing Goldilocks every evening? Are you getting tired of telling it? Do you wish you knew another fairy tale? And do you wish you had a quick and easy way to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452271746
• ISBN13: 9780452271746
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book for parents who tell their children stories

Excellent summaries, tips for narrating the tale and interacting with the listener. It helps makes story time magical and bonds children and parents.

The "Clif Notes" of storytelling for beginning storytellers

This book is helpful to those trying to find stories to tell orally to children. It contains the skeleton of many familiar folk and fairy tales that will help to remind parents and beginning storytellers of stories they may have heard as children and want to retell in their own words. Each story contains the summary, the characters, and the plot outline of stories, together with suggestions on how they might be told.