By Mary Medlicott
(Featherstone Education, 14.95)
Reviewed by Miranda Walker, playwork trainer and owner of Playtime Out of School Club and ABC Day Nursery in Cullompton, Devon Mary Medlicott has 25 years of storytelling experience. In this book she shares her techniques and tips, along with specially prepared stories. Some are Mary's own original tales, while others are re-workings of traditional plots, ideas and themes.
The book states that stories can give children 'what they need to grow up healthy - food for the imagination, nourishment for the emotions and a chance to make sense of the world in which we live'. Consequently, it is written in the style of a recipe book.
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