Customer Reviews

The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book: World Folk Tales Especially for Reading Aloud

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This book contains 40 stories from all over the world -- and they are the perfect length to tell at bedtime, 2-4 pages each. There are selections from Africa, Java, Brazil, Japan, North America, France, Russia, Egypt, Spain, Norway, Wales, Austrailia, Scotland, Puerto Rico, Greece, England, Finland, Germany and India -- and one new selection by the author. However they are all great stories (there isn't even one that I wouldn't want to read to my daughter) with sweet illustrations. You could probably even read 2 or three stories a night in the same time it would take to read a regular story book.

These stories are timeless; they relate complex moral truths in a palatable symbolic form. They are well written for interesting and animated storytelling. They are not very long. In a nutshell, this book contains the perfect recipe for my active three-year-old! And you'll love the stories, too!

What adorable and likeable stories - my five year old can't get enough of them. Is it a good sign when Mom is sick of reading them because they've been requested so much? This book,and a book of quirky, local bedtime stories from Florida (Bob-Tales by Bob Morgan) are the only two Leslie will let me read to her at night! Buy them both now!!

We checked this book out of the library & I just HAD to get one of my own. I am reading it with my 5-year-old son for the second time through now - we both adore it. It is especially written to be read aloud & you can tell. Charming stories from all over the world give us a glimpse into those cultures. We are buying them for ALL the nieces, nephews and cousins for Christmas this year!!

Short stores to read in 10-15 minutes that are fun and intriguing. The stories have an international flavor that take the reader and listener to another time and place, far, far away. I enjoyed the morals of the stories too. Cute and fun book for all preschoolers.

This is one of our new favorite books! My 5 and 3 year old boys absolutely love it! It's enjoyable to read as a parent, too! Highly recommend it!

This is a family favorite. My children pick it up often, even if no one is reading to them and look through the pages. I like that some of the stories are old classics, but many are tales I've never read before. The variety is terrific.

We really love this book for bedtimes. It has a great multicultural focus and the stories are engaging and promote good lessons in character training. My kids love them and ask for them over and over again. Definately a keeper!

My daughter, age 6, loves this book. She is an avid reader, so she reads the stories on her own but loves them so much she begs me to read them to her as well. They are good, entertaining stories, and we like that the table of contents lists what country the stories originated. Also, the stories are pretty short so when your child begs for "one more story" before bed, you can actually say ok.

I am not sure why this book is touted as "world" folk tales. A few stories make vague references to another culture, but most do not give the impression of being anywhere in particular. Ninety-percent of the characters are animals - the most prevalent being a tiger and this or that animal. After reading a few, they all sound the same, with obscure end-of-story morals that most young children cannot comprehend. Some are even a little scary for a young child. Incidentally, a few of the stories mention God. Also, many of the stories are too long for bedtime.