Lisa Lipkin
Bringing the Story Home
The Complete Guide to Storytelling for Parents
Bring the magic of storytelling into your child's life, using the everyday world around you.
Bring the magic of storytelling into your child's life, using nothing more than the everyday world around you. With over 100 original ideas and activities for children aged three to ten, Lisa Lipkin shows you how to incorporate storytelling into your daily routine. Learn how to use storytelling to make household chores like washing dishes or taking out the garbage an adventure, to enliven the long empty stretches of a plane or car trip, even to help with doing homework. You will need no props, no tools, and no prolonged setup to put these ideas into practice and kindle your child's imagination. Lipkin also shows you how to make reading aloud to your child even more fun and dramatic, with suggestions for embellishing stories to make them more alive-including pointers on how to adjust scary stories to your child's age and make Halloween exciting, not terrifying.
Bringing the Story Home offers stories that you can use for a multitude of real-life situations, addressing issues like your child's fears, the feeling of being left out, or the birth of a new sibling. It includes stories that emphasize compassion, cooperation, and self-esteem. In addition to folklore from many cultures, it features a rich sampling of original story ideas from parents that will inspire you to invent your own.
Lisa Lipkin is a storyteller who has been entertaining audiences for years with her lively and original performances. She has toured across America and internationally, appearing in festivals, theaters, museums, and schools, and has been a featured artist on radio and television. Her articles and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Self, Spy, and Family Circle, as well as in her monthly column for the Jewish Daily Forward.
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