The Importance of Rediscovering Storytelling

By Steve Cooke In his new book, A British Childhood, outgoing children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce makes a powerful case for helping families rediscover storytelling even in rough and tight circumstances. He cites the case of mums in Knowsley, one of Britain’s poorest boroughs, who couldn’t read but were introduced by him at a session at a GP practice to Dear Zoo, which they could easily…