Why read Moral of the Story?

Book cover of Moral of the Story: Folktales for Character Development

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To kids everywhere, in the hope that their elders will never stop telling stories.

Throughout history, traditional cultures have recognized the role of storytelling in teaching values to children. This user-friendly, hands-on guide to using storytelling and folktales in character education provides not only rationale for this approach, it includes…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Moral of the Story as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Margaret Read MacDonald

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This book contains twelve easily told tales that can be used to discuss character development. The Norfolks include suggestions for classroom use of the tales. I like to recommend this to the teachers in my storytelling classes as the advice comes from a teacher who has written several other books on using stories in the classroom.

From Margaret's list on The best books on storytelling for teachers.