Storytelling Made Easy with Puppets

by Jan Vanschuyver

Want to use puppets in storytelling but think you lack the confidence or talent? Then this is the book for you! Jan VanSchuyver explains how you can enliven storytelling and book sharing without fancy productions or complicated puppets. Her hands-in approach includes scripts and ideas for group activities accompanied by tried and true techniques for creating and using puppets to introduce books, lead songs, and tell stories. Problems with and solutions to working with children, whose reactions are often unpredictable, are an integral part of this resource.

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 1993

Reviews

[Kathleen H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book for any beginning children's librarian or beginning storyteller. Lots of great and simple ways to incorporate puppets into a storytime (puppet as helper, puppet to introduce a theme or song, puppet as storyteller, etc)