The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book [antikvár]

Introduction Bedtime is a special time. It's a time for families to draw close together—a time to share, to talk about the day's events and to tell stories. When my children were small, it was important to find just the right kind of story to send them off to sleep. Sometimes that story climbed out of a book, and sometimes we just pieced it together ourselves—my daughter the princess and my son the prince, winging off on yet another night-time adventure. Wherever the stories came from, they usually had three traits in common— warmth, wit and wisdom. Bedtime stories, I think, need to have a good heart. They need to leave the listener with that safe, warm, happily-ever-after feeling. But that doesn't mean they have to be soft and sentimental—laughter is the perfect antidote for that. And, if, in the midst of the laughter and adventure a child can discover something about bravery or honesty, kindness or forgiveness, hope or love, then bedtime serves as an opportunity not only to share a story and cement a relationship, but also to shape a life. In my work as a storyteller I have gathered the stories in this collection from every part of the globe. Some of them may be familiar to you. But I hope that many more will be new—that you will share my delight in discovering them for the first time and also come to appreciate, as I did, how similar our dreams and values are, regardless of culture, nation or race. So prop up the pillows, let your child crawl under the covers, and let's journey together to far-away places and once upon a times. Because it's bedtime. That special time. Time for the most special kind of story