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STORYTELLING WITH CHILDREN. By Nancy Mellon.

By Nancy Mellon.

(Hawthorn Press, 8.99, 01453 757040).

Reviewed by Frances Binns, play consultant, Manchester Children's Hospitals Nancy Mellon, an American therapist and parent, demonstrates how storytelling is a healing art and she conveys a wonderful pleasure in the value of telling and reading stories. The book will be useful to both parents and childcarers who want to enhance their storytelling skills, and identifies how children's lives can be enriched through listening to stories.

The book gives positive guidance and reinforcement to help adults tell stories about real-life situations in order to address important issues in children's everyday lives. It shows how the art of storytelling can be used to address complex situations with young children including moral development, death, moving house, sickness and many others. The author writes with a deep understanding and awareness, highlighting some of the difficulties that parents and carers can find in telling stories.

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