How to Tell Stories to Children - and Some Stories to Tell 12+

🔖 How Does a Storyteller Keep their Audience Spellbound - and Why Should Writers Learn This Craft?In the midst of the group stood a frail-looking woman with bright eyes. She was telling a story, a children's story, about a good and a bad little mouse.She had been asked to do that thing, for a purpose, and she did it, therefore. But it was easy to see from the expressions of the listeners how trivial a thing it seemed to them.That was at first. But presently the room grew quieter; and yet quieter. The faces relaxed into amused smiles, sobered in unconscious sympathy, finally broke in ripples of mirth. The story-teller had come to her own.Never, since the really old days, has story-telling so nearly reached a recognized level of dignity as a legitimate and general art of entertainment as now.(From the Introduction)Every writer needs this book available as a constant reference and reminder of their art.Get Your Copy Now.