Tell-A-Story

by Ravensburger

Product Features

• An imaginative memory & storytelling game!
• Each player tries to be first to collect all five story cards about a single character.
• Then players arrange the cards to tell a story of their choice.
• It's all in the cards - and how you decide to arrange them!
• Promotes imagination, creativity, logic, memory & communication.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.5 x 9 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001OHES
• Item model number: 00936
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 15 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,023 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Like well-illustrated books, Tell-A-Story offers worlds for children to enter. In this game, 50 picture cards teach memory, reading, and storytelling skills as children invent stories to match the pictures. Whenever a player collects five cards with the same character, he or she arranges the cards to create and tell a story. Parents may need to help little ones lay out the cards, but once they're launched, kids will want to return to the same story over and over again. --Lynne Sampson

Product Description

There are many stories waiting to be discovered and told. Little ones uses their memory skills to try to be the first player to collect all five story cards about a single character. Once all of the players have collected all of their story cards, they arrange their cards to tell a story of their choice. This game encourages children to develop their imagination and creativity, as well as logical thinking and language skills.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun game but not a lot of variety, February 21, 2010

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Francesca Noli (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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I loved the concept of having a game to tell a story. However, this is a little too basic for a 5 year old.
the game goes like this: you have about 30 cards with 6 stories. each story has 5 cards.
i.e. boy goes fishing, boy fishes a boot, boy fishes other boot, boy wears both boots.
and you can combine those five cards as you like. so you could take the previous story and do:
boy has new boots, boy throws them in the lake, boy goes get his fishing rod, boy fishes up boot.

however, the stories and the images are so simple that it is hard to build complex stories and at least my son loves to build pretty complex stories.

Overall, the game is OK but it is missing the potential to be a game you can play over and over and really play with your creativity.