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A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales: From Angry Ant to Zestless Zebra

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Susan Perrow Australian author

  • A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales

144 pages
Interest Age: 3 to 9
2017
ISBN: 9781907359866

This must-have collection of behaviour tales offers story medicine as a creative strategy for parenting, teaching and counselling. Telling the right story at the right time can help children face challenges and change behaviour.

All 42 stories begin with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation. Then, through metaphor and an imaginative story journey, they lead to a more desirable resolution. The stories also have the potential to nurture positive values.

Following the alphabet from A to Z, each behaviour is identified in the story title: angry, anxious, bullying, demanding, fussy, greedy, jealous, loud, obnoxious, quibbling, uncooperative, and so on.

The stories, some humorous, some serious, are especially relevant for children aged three to nine years – and the child in every adult! They are for telling and adapting: turn them into home-made picture books or puppet shows, or even create new tales from them. A pencil illustration by Allmut ffrench accompanies each story.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Introduction: Story Medicine

  • A Angry Ant
  • A Anxious Roo and Anything New
  • B Billy Bully Wind
  • B Bored Baboon
  • B Bossy Bula
  • C Clanging Crashing Clock
  • C Cranky Cockatoo
  • D Demanding Dodo
  • D Destructive Dana
  • D Dishonest Dingo
  • E Over-eager Elephant
  • F Fussy Foo-Foo
  • G Greedy Garden Spade
  • H Hurting biting hippo
  • I Intolerant Irises
  • J Jealous Jewel
  • J Jumpity Juju
  • K Kicking Kanga
  • K Klingy Koala
  • L Lazy Lizzie
  • L Loud Lyrebird
  • M Messy Mermaid
  • N Noisy Gnomes
  • N No-No Nobby
  • O Obnoxious Octopus
  • P Perfectionist Pat
  • P Pesky Pelican
  • P Procrastinating Pudden
  • Q Quibbling Queen
  • R Restless Red Pony
  • R Reticent Robot
  • S Scaredy Sun Bear
  • S Strawberry Shy and Raspberry Wild
  • S Swickity Snickity Swearing Snake;T Tearful Tida
  • U Untidy Ursula
  • U Unco-operative Umbrella
  • V Vain Velvet
  • W Whingeing Whistler
  • X Xtremely Dominant Xylophone
  • Y Yellow Mellow Yacht
  • Z Zestless Zebra

Ways to use Story Medicine

"Susan is a trailblazer for the movement for healing stories… The playfulness of this book makes it clear to you, the reader, that you can adapt Susan’s tales for your own situation or even create your own. I hope you enjoy this delicious story medicine!"
- Georgiana Keable, Storytelling teacher, founder of Fortellerhuset (the Storytelling House) and The Norwegian Storytelling festival, and author of The Natural Storyteller, from the foreword