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With the limited amount of time that Dads spend with their kids each day, finding time to bond is very important. Storytelling is a great way to bond with your child and this book will help you easily learn to become a storyteller that your children will cherish.

Daddyteller showcases eight stories that Dads can share with their kids. Each story also comes with a guide that you can use to learn different expressions and movements that you can do during pivotal parts of the story. This helps you to become an engaged storyteller instead of just someone who is reading a story out of a book.

By using the step by step method and learning the stories in this book, you can tell your children memorable stories that will teach them the important lessons of life.

Kids love stories and creative Dads have been entertaining their children for centuries with stories. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw what Daddy Teller was about. It is a primer to help dads who may not be used to story telling to interact with their kids and tell them stories. This is a great way to spend quality time with kids and form that special father child bond. Even if you don't feel creative, the story suggestions and examples, will not only have you telling, not reading, stories to your kids, in no time. It will have you sharing valuable lessons as well. With a little help from this primer any dad will be a master story teller in no time.

The author has hit a home run with this highly accessible book. Great for skilled storytellers, yet also very usable for someone who is "just a dad" (OR a mom, or uncle or auntie or grandparent). He doesn't overwhelm you with a million stories- eight is a good number. But he gives you what you need to be able to actually learn the story: he tells it to you, gives you his "Brick-And-Mortar Story Reminder" outline with the high points, then he gives you his coaching notes. It is like having a master "story-helper" at your side as you are becoming familiar with a tale. He includes great hints for gestures and sound effects (the FUN stuff that real hams are happy to do, and others need a bit of encouragement to know if it is the RIGHT thing or not.)

I also love that the stories he picked are stories that, without hitting kids over the head, teach so many of the values that a good parent wants their kid to learn: the danger of greed, self-worth, and kindness, to name a few.

If you grew up hearing someone tell you stories and always wished you knew how to do that, buy this book....or buy it for someone you love. I ordered a copy for MY dad. He is going to love it. HE was my "DaddyTeller", and now tells stories to the grandkids. Thanks Sean! Write us some more.

The perfect unique and unexpected gift for my young nephews' dad. The stories are easy to tell, and the kids love them!

If you haven't yet downloaded this great Kindle book (or even if you have), I'd highly recommend you go to the author's website at [...] and watch his video. Two suggestions, though: First, don't be intimidated by thinking, "Oh, I could NEVER tell a story as well as he does!" Wrong. You could. You couldn't tell a story the SAME way he does - because he's who he is. But you are also who you are, and whatever you need to learn to be a better - even an awesome - storyteller is in this book.

Second, notice from his video the magic of enthusiasm. One of the great things about telling (or reading) stories to kids is that you get to let loose your "inner ham" - complete with lots of gesturing and voice modulating and drama.

I've told and read plenty of stories to kids in my lifetime. I've told stories in church ("children's storytime"), and I told a gazillion more to my own four kids as they grew up. But no matter if you're a storytelling novice or have years of experience, this book is a storyteller's college course. You will learn a ton about how to tell stories to kids - and tell them better. And by the way, though this book primarily targets dads, don't conclude it's ONLY for dads. Moms, aunts, uncles, grandparents - anyone who tells stories to kids will benefit.

The Product Description here summarizes well the book's contents, so I won't repeat that. Instead, just let me observe a couple other important thoughts. One, it's vital for parents and others who have the amazing privilege and responsibility of forming the values and character of children, to build carefully. Nothing works better in teaching moral lessons to kids and motivating them to make good choices, than do stories.

Two, both in writing and speaking, it's axiomatic that it's far more effective to show than to tell. Kids (and even maybe most adults) struggle with abstract concepts. But tell a story, and they "see" the concept immediately and clearly.

This book is a slam dunk to improve the storytelling skills of anybody who cares about kids. Don't lose time weighing and fussing about whether or not to get it. Just download it - and the kids who listen to you will be at least as thankful to you, as you will be to the author!