The Stories Children Tell: Making Sense of the Narratives of Children

by Susan Engel

Book Overview

In this work, a developmental psychologist examines the methods and meanings of children's narratives. Engel explores: the different functions of the storytelling process; the way the storytelling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716734338
• ISBN13: 9780716734338
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Love this book

I disagree with the reviewer who said the writing was choppy and difficult to follow... I am 16 years old and have read the book twice, just for fun. I'm not super interested in psychology, but as a lover of children and languages the book fascinated me. I saw it in my town's public library, picked it up, and read it nonstop. I learned a lot from it, and it was pretty enthralling with maybe a couple of hard-to-understand places.

Incredible insight

The Stories Children Tell is a great piece of work that brings our ideas about children and the world together with sophisticated but accessible psychological themes.