Let’s Tell a Story! Fairy Tale Adventure weaves as good as you can

When I was teaching English in Japan the constant bane of my classes was a simple one. “I’m fine thank you”, was their response when I asked them how they were doing. I created dozens of crudely illustrated review cards to help them be comfortable saying I’m hungry, sleepy, angry, tired, exhausted, or just OK that they were on that day. Let’s Tell a Story is a book series that does a similar thing, but it builds a story that kids can easily create and tell by themselves. Let’s Tell a Story Fairy Tale Adventures is also great because of the sheer variety of stories that kids will be able to build.

Fairy Tale Adventure starts off with two pages of directions. Normally directions in a children’s book would be a non-starter for some readers. However, here the directions are bright, in big font, and start asking the types of questions that you want kids to ask themselves as they go through the book. Note: you’ll also want kids to ask detailed, smart questions in life, but don’t tell them that this fun book is educational or paving the way for their future success.

How do you want your character to look? You could be a witch, black cat, puppet, bear, troll or any number of classic fairy tale characters. The 16 possible characters are all beautifully illustrated in a way that’s familiar to fairy tale fans, but not drawn in such a way that it’s babyish. On those same pages, after you’ve chosen your character and about to turn the page the book asks you two very important questions. What’s your name and do you have any special powers are what it asks. Those two questions do not play into the book’s narrative.

The power in those two questions is that it gets kids thinking, especially if they’re telling the story aloud in a narrative manner. As the pages turn we see options on how their characters can dress, where they want to go, what they can take on their trip, what route they want to go, which enemy they’ll encounter, and how the fairy tale ends, just to name a few.

Fairy Tale Adventure is interactive gold for those kids who like to talk, fantasize about stories, goof around and be silly. As kids are reading it the book will help kids realize and stretch their imagination. This will lead them to ask better questions, become more logic-based, and do better in school.

That last sentence I made up. It was made up just the way that you and your kid will make up umpteen number of stories as you play with this book.  Fairy Tale Adventure would work as a great good-night book, as long as your young storyteller doesn’t get too excited. It would also work as a read-along or choose your adventure style book in a classroom setting. Any way you look at it, as long as your young reader likes fairy tales and making up nonsensical stories they will love this book. This is a fun, interactive book that ages five through nine will really enjoy. Those older ages will enjoy it, with some prompting from adults, to fill in those advanced details and story-telling narratives that they’re reading or writing about in second through fourth grade.

Let’s Tell A Story! Fairy Tale Adventures is by Lily Murray with illustrations by Wesley Robins and on Wide Eyes Editions, an imprint of Quarto Knows.

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