Books with title Tell Me a Tattoo Story

Excerpt from Tell Me a StoryI had been knitting, but it had grown too dark even for that. I could not pretend to be busy. What could I say? I held up my hands in despair.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The children sat round me in the gloaming. There were several of them; from Madge, dear Madge with her thick fair hair and soft kind grey eyes, down to pretty little Sybil—Gipsy, we called her for fun,—whom you would hardly have guessed, from her brown face and bright dark eyes, to be Madge’s “own cousin.” They were mostly girls, the big ones at least, which is what one would expect, for it is not often that big boys care much about sitting still, and even less about anything so sentimental as sitting still in the twilight doing nothing. There were two or three little boys however, nice round-faced little fellows, who had not yet begun to look down upon “girls,” and were very much honoured at being admitted to a good game of romps with Madge and her troop. It was one of these—the rosiest and nicest of them all, little Ted—who pulled my dress and whispered, but loud enough for every one to hear, with his coaxingest voice—“Tell me a story, aunty.” And then it came all round in a regular buzz, in every voice, repeated again and again—“O aunty! do; dear, dear aunty, tell us a story.”

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Alexandra who asked her daddy, "Daddy, please tell me a stoooweee". Well this is my story on how I created thousands of children stories. These stories come from a world where animals of all kinds all talk and learn, like children, about life. Around the age of three my daughter got tired of me reading little kiddy stories and asked me "Daddy, please tell me a stoooweee". So every night I would make up a new short story. One day, when she was 7 years old, I decided to tape these stories so she could hear them over and over. Well that went on for 7 more years with over 110 hours and over 3,000 stories. There are so many stories that I will have to write many more volumes. So here we are, the first book is published and now kids all over the world can enjoy them as my daughter did for many years. The time you spend with your child is most rewarding. Never get tired of loving, kissing and hugging them, no matter how old they get.

A collection of three short stories which are fun for toddlers and preschoolers. The storylines are easy for them to understand and enjoy. These are stories which I have told to my own children and the ones that they have asked me to repeat over and over. Each story also teaches a lesson to help instill important values. Dippy Ducky learns the importance of always listening to his mommy even when tempted not to. Nicholas is sad by the way he is treated at the park until a girl named Ella arrives. A little bird in trouble finds a very kind boy to give him the help he needs to get well.

'Tell Me a Story' opens with a child on the lap of a lady, asking her to tell him a story- any story, any kind. Then the child goes on to tell the lady what kind of stories he likes, to make suggestions about stories the lady might tell and to ask questions about what the story might be. Some verses are: // Please tell me a story, any story, any kind. I love them all, I think you will find. / "Once upon a time," Could be how it starts and end with, "The End," and have all middle parts. / I like them all, both short and long. You can just say the words or sing me a song. / Say it or sing it, I'll listen either way. It can come from a book or how 'bout a play? / Long as a movie or a short nursery rhyme, I'll stay here and listen. I have the time. / So, can you think about what you could tell?I like true stories and made-up ones as well. / So, will it have animals? How about a pig? Or maybe an ant who wants to be big. / Or could it have a bug or a lake or buildings or rockets or just one snowflake? / Will it be about trains or a fish in a brook or a champion horse or a bank-robbing crook? / OK, I'm ready to hear your story, but, I'm kind of now wishing it isn't too gory. / I like stories about candy and ones that tell how to bake cookies because I'm sure hungry right now. / Gosh, I love stories. I can hardly wait for the tale you have chosen and to me, you'll relate. / Will this story be sad? I need to know. Should I get out my hanky for my nose to blow? / Will it make me laugh or maybe just giggle? Is it about worms and things that wiggle? // And this story continues. Will she get to tell HER story???

Tell Me a Story helps practitioners to build progression into a favourite part of the day for all children. Matched to the development stages of the EYFS. Each page features 'activity boxes' labelled for each age group showing how each area can be approached by children at different stages of development. The format makes it easy to select the level of activity appropriate for each child making these books ideal for groups of mixed ages. When returning to the same areas later the user can choose another activity to support progression and extend learning.