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These
free information and ideas papers cover a variety of topics
relating to imagination and storytelling. We hope you will
find them useful.
Natural
Storytellers
This
paper explains some of the organizing ideas behind the Natural
Storytellers booklet series, particularly how each booklet reflects
and develops capacities for narrative making that seem to occur
naturally in human beings. It will be of interest to teachers,
workshop leaders, therapists, storytellers, story makers and
all who are interested in stories.
Imagination
What
is imagination and why should it never be taken for granted?
Some answers are included in this short paper.
Why
children need stories
Children
need stories for reasons more central and vital than improvement
in literacy or familiarity with literary traditions, important
though those can be. This paper lists some of those reasons.
Why children should tell storiesChildren
need not only to read and hear stories but also to tell them
themselves out loud in improvisational way. This paper explains
why.
StorytellingSome
vital information about storytelling, the storytelling scene
and the various different perspectives on the art and craft
of storytelling currently being explored.
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