Holiday Draw and Tell Stories, Volume 5 in the multi-volume Draw Me a Story series, contains ten fun " draw and tell stories " to help you celebrate various holidays and entertain children. You'll find Christmas draw and tell stories, Halloween draw and tell stories, Easter draw and tell stories, Hanukkah draw and tell stories, Valentine's Day draw and tell stories, and Saint Patrick's Day draw and tell stories. There's even a Fourth of July draw and tell story, plus a birthday draw and tell story. As a bonus, this holiday draw and tell story volume also includes amusing and inventive holiday themed action rhymes to help children get their wiggles out during storytelling and other programs. As with all of Barbara's other draw and tell story collections, this holiday story collection includes clear instructions and traceable drawings, plus an informative guide to using the lively and time-honored draw and tell storytelling technique. Draw and tell stories are simple stories for young children. These drawing tales are very easy to use and require no special materials or experience. As each draw and tell story is told, its characters and objects are sketched onto a single sheet of paper, while children look on. These simple elements build up on the drawing until, by the time the story ends, a composite picture representing the subject of the story has emerged, much to the children's delight. The draw and tell form of storytelling is great for parents, teachers and children's librarians. Author Barbara Freedman-De Vito has been creating and using draw and tell stories for many years in her work as a children's librarian, freelance storyteller, teacher, and workshop leader. Please do an AMAZON SEARCH for " Barbara Freedman-De Vito " to find all of Barbara's collections of Draw and Tell stories, plus her illustrated picture books for children. Also, you can visit her website: www.babybirdproductions.com to see samples from Barbara's stories, plus clothing and gift items decorated with her designs, informative articles for parents, and more.
About the Author: Barbara Freedman-De Vito has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, certification as an art teacher and as an English teacher, and a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has spent many years as a children's librarian in the U.S.A., as a free-lance storyteller and puppeteer in the U.S. and in Europe, and as a teacher and as a workshop leader on the arts of storytelling, puppetry and prop design. She also writes and illustrates her own children's stories and draw and tell stories and creates art prints, plus fun clothing and gift items decorated with her artwork, all available on her website: Baby Bird Productions http: //www.babybirdproductions.com