Tell Me a Story in the Dark

Name: Tell Me a Story in the Dark
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781939629586
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A Guide to Creating Magical Bedtime Stories for Young Children

By John Olive

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Tell Me a Story in the Dark by John Olive is a guide for parents and grandparents to transform bedtime into a magical storytelling experience. This book teaches you how to prepare and tell engaging stories, offers a collection of adaptable tales, and provides techniques to create your own. It highlights the benefits of oral storytelling, including enhancing vocabulary, fostering effective parenting moments, and ending bedtime struggles.
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Ideal for parents, grandparents, and anyone who loves children and wishes to enrich bedtime routines through storytelling. Also recommended for aspiring authors and educators interested in creating engaging children's stories.

Tell Me A Story In The Dark celebrates the bedtime story. The book provides readers with all the tools they need to create and tell magical bedtime stories. It also contains a treasure trove of stories that readers can adapt and tell their children.

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Tonight, don't read your child a story. Instead, dim the light, lie down, and create storytelling magic. Weave a spell that will enchant your child.

Written by an award-winning playwright, Tell Me a Story in the Dark provides you with every tool you need to tell great and entertaining stories. In a day when parents want to spend more quality time with their children, Tell Me a Story in the Dark:

Shows you how to prepare and tell a story.
Communicates the enormous benefits—ending the bedtime battle of wills, building vocabulary, making room for effective parenting moments.
Provides a treasure trove of stories that parents (and grandparents) can adapt for their children.
Teaches you how to make up and tell your own stories.

Anyone who loves children will love this book.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Louis Sachar, author of Holes, praises Olive's gentle and humorous writing style that revives the lost art of storytelling, especially valuable in today's technology-driven world. Midwest Book Review highly recommends this book as a useful instructional reference for both parenting and writers seeking to craft original children's stories. Minnesota Playlist notes the vivid, lively, and theatrical quality of Olive's retellings that differentiate them from reading stories silently. The book is also recognised for its practical, fun tips from a master storyteller.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781939629586

Publisher: Familius LLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 March 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Familius LLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 300

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About the Author

John is a widely produced and award-winning playwright. His plays include Minnesota Moon, Standing On My Knees, Killers, The Voice of the Prairie, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Clara's Play, The Summer Moon, God Fire, et al. Producing theaters have included: The Manhattan Theatre Cub, Wisdom Bridge, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Co., Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf, ACT/Seattle, and many others. John has won fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Summer Moon won the Kennedy Center Award for Drama. In the past twelve years, John has written many plays for young audiences including Sideways Stories From Wayside School, The Magic Bicycle, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Pharaoh Serket and The Lost Stone of Fire, Johnny Tremain, and others. Producing theaters have included Seattle Children's Theatre, South Coat Rep, The Arden, Nashville Children's, Oregon Children's, First Stage Milwaukee, et al. John's latest at Seattle Children's (his 6th), Art Dog, opened in April of 2014. John has also written YA novels, including Smartass and Deep River (in-progress, in collaboration with David Grant) and screenplays (Amblin' Entertainment, ShadowCatcher, etc). John is presently writing an immersive adaptation of Crime and Punishment, with Live Action Set. He writes theater reviews for HowWasTheShow.com and lives in Minneapolis with his wife Mary and their son Michael.