The Natural Storyteller Wildlife Tales for Telling by Georgiana Keable
272 pp.
7 3/8" x 9"
Illustrations: b/w throughout
Hawthorn Press
Paperback
Published: November 2017
The Natural Storyteller is full of
dynamic story seeds. When you open the book and read a story seed, you
plant it in yourself, unleashing courage, creativity, and love of nature
through true stories of environmental heroes and botanical tales of
living trees. These are stories gleaned from the treasures of world
traditions, but re-visioned for today’s child and told with great energy
and panache, including adventures among birds, animals, and people;.
fairytales from the forest and true tales of sea, earth, and sky.
Readers will want to retell these stories immediately, whether at
bedtime or around the campfire under the stars. These stories inspire
wonder and service for Mother Earth.
This is a handbook for the
nature storyteller, with story maps, brain-teasing riddles, story
skeletons, and adventures to make a tale your own. Here is a vibrant
invitation to embrace a world of stories about nature, animals, and
plants and our relationship with them.
Georgiana Keable
shows—through a range of techniques and the power of stories—how to
interpret, retell, and pass these stories on for the future. This
diverse collection of stories will nurture active literacy skills and
help children form essential bonds with nature.
“[The Natural Storyteller]
is life affirming. All of its stories are about taking delight in
creation. It is a journey into storytelling as well as story.” —Hugh Lupton, award-winning storyteller