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

Customer Reviews

Great for bedtime

2008-09-22
These stories are a great length for my 4 year olds bedtime routine. I used to get bogged down in extra long stories, but now I can zip through our routine and he's satisfied. The stories are great. There was some repetition in the tiger stories, but beyond that I have no complaints.

A Great Book!

2008-09-05
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!

Great stories, shipping a little slow

2008-07-23
These are great international stories with good values. The shipping took forever (3 months?) but it was worth the wait for a unique book.

Great variety of stories

2007-08-07
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.

One of our favorites

2007-02-19
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!

Great stories

2007-01-09

In this new collection of international folk tales, storyteller Bob Hartman blends familiar stories with little-known tales. Each story has been chosen for its integrity and for its ability to encourage and inspire children who are learning to understand the world around them. It is a captivating anthology that reflects the storyteller’s humor and joy of life, both of which are echoed in Susie Poole’s lively watercolor illustrations.

What a winner!

2006-11-04
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!!

great read aloud for young and old

2006-02-27
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!

Wow!

2003-12-17
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!!

Great Bedtime Stories

2000-12-02
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.