With a simple envelope, or a paper cup, even a cereal box, you too can lead kids to literature through puppetry. Best-selling author Caroline Feller Bauer returns with more creative techniques to turn kids on to reading and storytelling through simple visual presentations and short, stimulating literary selections.
In Leading Kids to Books Through Puppets, the celebrated Bauer style once again means maximum fun for kids with minimum training, preparation, and cost. Bauer selects lively short stories, poems, and plays to perform and offers scores of recommended books for further reading. With easy step-by-step instructions, she demonstrates how to create puppets from catalogs, sticks, your own feet, animal crackers, shadows, and much more. She even outlines ideas for setting up a puppet stage.
Complementing Bauer's expert detail are the delightful illustrations of series artist Richard Laurent, whose whimsical work brings these puppets and props to life.

Leading Kids to Books Through Puppets (Mighty Easy Motivators/Caroline Feller Bauer)

Feller Bauer, Caroline

Children's Books

ALA Editions

Ideal for both beginners and more experienced storytellers, this exhaustive primer includes everything adults need to start sharing the wonder of stories with children, from babies to tweens. The lively text imparts easy-to-follow guidelines and practical advice on how, when, where, and why to tell stories. Each chapter incorporates a wealth of delectable folktales to read and tell, plus the authors hand-selected, annotated lists containing hundreds of classic and cutting edge children s books, professional books, and relevant websites. Demonstrating the joy of stories and storytelling, this book
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<li>Provides an overview of the history and types of storytelling</li>
<li>Shows how to select, learn, prepare, and tell stories</li>
<li>Begins with more than two dozen easy-to-learn stories that adults can read today and tell to children tomorrow</li>
<li>Looks at the major types of folk and fairy tales, including many sample stories and booklists</li>
<li>Offers a comprehensive list of stories reworked, reimagined, reinvented, parodied, satirized or recreated from folk and fairy tales</li>
<li>Includes Favorite Stories to Tell, a compendium of more than 500 suggested tales, easily accessible by subject and theme, from which tellers can find the perfect stories to fit every occasion and begin to build their own repertoire of wonderful tales to tell</li>
<li>Provides tips for publicizing and promoting storytelling programs</li>
</ul>This handbook instructs, inspires, and entertains like no other resource of its kind.

The Handbook for Storytellers

Politics & Social Sciences

Freeman, Judy

Social Sciences

Librarians, teachers, parents, and caregivers can energize storytimes and curricula with this informative and entertaining resource filled with engaging and creative ways to integrate storytelling and story-related materials into programs for children, ages birth-12. Readers will find a treasure trove of tales, books, songs, and poems to share, plus a host of exciting and easily adaptable children's literature-based activities. This handbook provides
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<li>Descriptions of a variety of programs for young children, from lap times for babies to programs for toddlers and nursery school age children, on up to grade 2</li>
<li>A "quicklist" of 150 thematic program-starters for children ages 1-7, on popular topics such as animals, the natural world, families, vehicles, and holidays</li>
<li>Story jokes, think stories, convoluted logic puzzlers, scary tales, funny stories, and dozens of other thematic program-starters for tweens</li>
<li>Methods for telling stories using pictures, objects, crafts, puppetry, songs, creative drama, and magic</li>
<li>Materials such as story scripts, songs, wordplay, poems, annotated booklists, and non-narrative sources for storytelling</li>
<li>Guidance to help story programmers pull together cohesive themed programs and story hours</li>
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No storytelling programmer will want to be without this expansive and instantly useful handbook.

The Handbook for Storytime Programs

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