This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.

Joy is a little girl who lives with her mom and dad and loves to read. She named her favorite book “Storytime,” and Storytime is more than just a book to Joy. It is her best friend, and she takes Storytime everywhere. This year, Joy has one wish for Christmas: she wants a yellow Labrador puppy. The power of her holiday wish brings Storytime to life! Instead of reading from her favorite book, Joy is told a tale about a little girl and her puppy. Storytime teaches Joy that puppies have feelings and need to be cared for with love and kindness. A puppy will depend on Joy, and with Storybook’s help, Joy learns the right way to treat a pet. Now, will Joy’s Christmas wish come true? Author Eileen Wagner has compassion for all animals and desires to see them treated well. Adventures with Storytime was inspired by her daughter’s first puppy, a loveable Labrador, and the fun they had. These memories, combined with Eileen’s desire to promote kindness to all creatures, shaped this book.

Join the world of balloons, pancakes, and musical instruments—just a few items to help improve early literacy in the library, the classroom, and at home. Literacy-builders covered range from music and instruments to magnetic letters, alphabet beads, and food. Literacy is a popular topic of discussion among librarians. Especially important is "early literacy," what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. In this book, experienced librarians Kathy Barco and Melanie Borski-Howard share hands-on techniques that they have used to successfully promote early literacy and encourage family involvement. Storytime and Beyond teaches readers how to use "literacy doodads"—inexpensive props that add excitement to storytimes and can be used outside the library or classroom—to enhance the basic components of any early literacy program: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing. Many of the doodads can be created as family do-it-yourself projects, and some can be adapted to work with non-readers of any age. Instruments can also be a great way to get children's attention and teach literacy skills, whether it's a drum to beat while reading a story or a maraca for children to shake during a song, and lesson plans for musical storytimes address how to use rhythm, singing, and dancing to make early literacy fun.

What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter – but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, author and literary critic Jane Sullivan takes us from Wonderland to Narnia, Moomintroll to Mr Toad and from Winnie the Pooh to the Magic Pudding, to find out why her favourite childhood books were so vitally important, and how they shaped the woman she is today. This intimate, intense and emotional adventure down memory lane is much, much more than nostalgia. It is a surprising and sometimes disturbing voyage of self-discovery. As Jane relives old joys and faces old fears, she discovers that the books were not what she thought they were, and she was not the child she thought she was.

There is a place outside of time, there is a dimension beyond the realm of space. In this narrative, we embark on an imaginary journey to this place called heaven. Many have pondered, "What is it like?" Many heard of its existence and desired to eventually take up residence in this celestial city. During our adventure called Story Time in Heaven, we will see amazing places that fill us with wonder. We will meet some of heaven's citizens and hear incredible family stories and their accounts of dreams, choices, and covenants of love! We will begin to see magnificent, glorious sights that can only be seen through faith and we will learn eternal truths. All of this can only be accomplished in the spirit of our imagination. We will observe our family story and the story of mankind from heaven's perspective. When viewed in the light of eternity, we find even greater meaning in our lives here on earth. This imaginary journey takes us to: A place where a family has gathered and stories are told of amazing grace!

A practical guide to involving babies and children in all sorts of adventures, whether it be cycling, camping, paddling, hiking, swimming or outdoor holidays. As soon as Bex Band, founder of the UK's largest women's adventure community, Love Her Wild, announced she was pregnant with her first child, the sympathy began. 'Enjoy your adventures while you can', 'It's going to be a big shock not being able to travel as much', and 'Aren't you going to miss adventuring?'It seemed as though having children was a death sentence when you're an outdoor adventurer. But it really doesn't have to be that way. Yes, it's a scary prospect – how do you keep them safe? Where do they sleep? What equipment do you need? - but it's totally doable. When Bex's daughter was just a few weeks old, Bex and her husband took her camping. Now age 2, she's been wild camping on Dartmoor, cycling along the coast, swimming in rural lakes and even carried in a backpack on a multi-day Negev desert hike. Now, she shares her stories and insights in Family Adventures, a practical and inspirational guide to involving babies and children in outdoor adventures. This guide is full of useful information (such as what to pack when camping with an infant or how to keep children safe in open water), invaluable tips (family games you can play around a campfire or how to keep morale up in bad weather) and plenty of honesty around things going wrong (poo-explosion on a wild camp, anyone?). Experiences from adventuring families also provide a plethora of insights so that you're well equipped to make your family adventuring dreams a reality.

Sue’s Storytime delights ‘The alphabetical series’, are a mixture of educative and poetic stories for children of different age groups. There are 5 books to collect, with 26 adorable stories altogether. The stories in the series, are strategically written to complement each other alphabetically, from the English letters a-z. These books can be an enjoyable, useful learning tools for younger children learning to read. And for older children, the stories are equally as beautiful, for a fun delightful read, full of life’s little adventures!