Fairytales, Families & Forests Storytelling with Young Children by Georgiana Keable and Dawne McFarlane

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.       C O N T E N T S:
Introduction by 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