STORYTELLING SUPERHEROES

Creating opportunities to inspire.

Author visits

We all have our favourite children’s books. Those stories we read by flashlight under the covers well past bedtime. Fantastical worlds brought to life with our imaginations and illustrations. We became friends with the characters. We did not like the behaviour of the bad guys. We could empathize with the hero facing adversity. We aspired to be like the hero in the book.

A Love of reading is sparked early They will try out conversations between people. Ideas, culture, history, and values will be explored in the adventures they create. It reinforces to them that their stories and ideas matter. And through these stories, they learn what it means to be kind and make sense of what is right and wrong.

These are some of the reasons why The York School invites children’s authors to read to the children.

Imagine going back to your young self and meeting the author who sparked your love for reading. What would you ask them? What story would you want to tell them?

Meeting an author can have a profound affect on people, especially children. The York School Junior School students have had the opportunity to meet children’s book authors ‘in real life’ a number of times this year with visits by Andrea Beaty, Ruth Ohi and Phyllis Bordo. From their imagination sprang stories that the students read together and enjoyed in the cozy York School library.

“Anything can be accomplished if you set your mind to it!“

Storytelling forges connections

To meet the person whose name is on the front cover of a book not only encourages a love of reading but also serves a deeper purpose. With support from The York School Annual Fund students meet role models and are encouraged to stretch their imaginations. It invites children to think and discover their own imagination and come up with stories of their own to tell. If your child tells you they have a story idea and want to write a book, do you tell them that it’s an impossible dream? Of course not. You support them by buying them pens and paper and ask them questions about the characters in their story. It can’t be impossible, because they just met an author, a role model who made it happen. That means they can too.

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