Storytelling with Children

Storytelling with Children

In Storytelling with Children, Nancy Mellon offers a joyful and practical guide to becoming a confident storyteller at home and in the classroom.

Telling stories awakens wonder and creates meaningful moments — at bedtime, around the fire, or on rainy afternoons. Drawing from years of experience in Waldorf education and therapeutic storytelling, Mellon provides clear methods and encouragement for parents, teachers, and caregivers who wish to enrich children’s lives through spoken stories.

This book includes guidance on:

• Creating a listening space

• Using the rhythms of the day to inspire stories

• Transforming traditional tales and creating new ones

• Bringing personal and family stories to life

• Learning stories by heart through inner pictures and movement

• Finding the right tale for each child and occasion

Published in association with the Alliance for Childhood, this beloved guide emphasizes storytelling as a living art — one that strengthens imagination, deepens relationships, and nourishes the inner life of the child.

A treasured resource for families, Waldorf teachers, homeschoolers, and anyone wishing to rediscover the magic of oral storytelling.

C O N T E N T S:

Foreword by Thomas Moore
Introduction

1. Weaving a Storyteller’s Mantle
2. The Storyteller’s Trove of Treasure: Memory and Imagination
3. A Storyteller’s Trove of Treasure: Play
4. Stories for Growth and Change
5. Stories through the Seasons
6. Stories: Weaving Family and Community

Acknowledgments
Resources for Each Chapter

About the Author

Nancy Mellon is a storyteller who teaches the healing art of storytelling. She operates a School for Therapeutic Storytelling and lives in New Hampshire. Nancy has helped lead the rebirth of storytelling internationally since the 1980s and continues to pioneer storytelling in the healing arts movement. She is also the author of the classic Storytelling with Children. Healing Storytelling from Hawthorn Press.