Storytelling with Kids

Swan Lake Musical Sound Book (story by Lesley Sims, illustrations by Anna Luraschi) I didn't get into listening to classical music until I was old... er 😅 and I think it was a bit of a miss in my education as a child. That's why I'm especially passionate about including music (any music! But especially classical music) in early childhood education of my own kids, and of course also in our story circles. In the BBC Music Magazine article "How can I get my child into classical music?" Hannah Nepilova explores best ways to make children interested in and introduced to the classical music. According to Nepilova, one of the best ways to do that is to listen to music while telling a story. This makes a lot of sense since typically, as caregives and educators, we already have a habit of telling stories with our kids, so adding a habit of playing music while telling a story is really easy, especially if we have a good sound book handy. Many class

Summer is in full swing in our part of the world, and it's a great opportunity to tell stories about the seasons, the changing weather and summer activities. "Summer" is a picture book by German artist and illustrator  Rotraut Susanne Berner . It's a part of the series called "All Around Bustletown" - or simply "Wimmelbuch" in Berner's native German . Wimmelbuch , or  Wimmelbilderbuch literally translates from German as a "book abound with pictures". German philologist Cornelia Rémi describes Wimmelbooks as "a type of wordless picture books which display a series of panoramas teeming with an immense amount of characters and details". According to Rémi, Wimmelbooks have "the potential to accompany children ... along their path to literacy and introduce them to different strategies of coping with the world and of telling stories". Indeed, in our story circle focused on  Berner's  Summer,