Mrs Stanley - Storyteller

28/11/2024

Mrs Stanley is looking forward to telling her favourite Christmas story at Croston Village Festival this Sunday 1st December at 1.30pm. She will tell 'Little Robin Red Vest', a told version of Joy Fearnley's gorgeous picture book of the same name. Get ready for some silly songs & rhymes, some Christmas songs and a heart warming story about kindness and friendship. Tickets are available from the festival organisers.

🎅🎅🎅Only 13 days to the Christmas Fair 🎅🎅🎅

25/05/2024

Mrs Stanley is having a day out of Wild about Story Book in the BEST storytelling location ever! Come to .flash Nature Reserve for free storytelling & songs for kids today Saturday) and tomorrow 11am until 3pm. Mrs Stanley will be telling stories of birds, beasties and everything that's wonder-ful about having a gorgeous nature reserve like this close to a big city like Manchester.

Wild about Story Books is open as usual

23/05/2024

Mrs Stanley will be telling stories here at Wigan Flashes Festival of Nature, this coming weekend. These are photos from last year's festival. It's all free!

02/09/2023

I'm exchanging the view from Wild about Story's upstairs bookshop for a drive through the North Pennines, en route to visit Storyteller, Malcolm Green of A Bit Crack Storytelling in the North East.

The bookshop will be tended today by the lovely Pam, who Cedar Farmers may know as she works for Joanne Eddon most Sundays. She will be assisted (and probably distracted) by a lively bunch of puppets that arrived yesterday. Puppet play can bring the written word alive and encourage children to become storytellers, so we have a growing team of Puppet Company finger and hand puppets ready to accompany our quality children's book collection.

You can visit Pam and the Puppets in Wild about Story Bookshop, today 11am - 5 pm

30/08/2023

Thank you to the singers who joined us on Sunday for Community Sing in The Garden Temple in Croston. Here is a sn**ch of 'I'm gonna sing...' a medley. It's 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' combined with 'When the saints go marching in' and a third joyful little song that celebrates singing. We sing easy to learn songs suitable for all ages and singing abilities. It's not about performance, just singing for fun in good company.

Our next gathering is on Sunday 17th September at 7.30 pm, outside around the fire if it's fine or inside the Garden Temple if it's raining. More info and booking from www.wildaboutstory.co.uk

22/08/2023

This is a great conversation, Michael Rosen and Susie Orbach.

Susie Orbach talks to Michael Rosen about the use and misuse of 'therapy speak'.

27/07/2023

This was Mrs Stanley, ready to tell Stories, Songs & Rhymes at Samlesbury Hall on Monday to a fun group of children. Thank you for coming and I hope some of you will come again. Next week, Mrs Stanley - Storyteller will be telling the story of 'The Scarecrow's Hat' where chicken has a great plan for what to do with Scarecrow's lovely hat, but she has talk to a few animals first.
Come along, 10am on Tuesday to see if her plan works.

Book on the website https://www.samlesburyhall.co.uk/things-to-do/events/mrs-stanleys-songs-rhymes-2-01-Aug-2023

01/07/2023

Mrs Stanley is taking an hour away from the bookshop today to tell stories to children at Mawdesley Beer Festival. She's hoping to get them drunk.... on stories and songs. Wild about Story bookshop is open today until 3.30 at Cedar Farm and the storytelling is happening at The Red Lion Pub in Mawdesley at 4pm.