What is StoryWatchers Club™?
Tell me about each program in the series
What ages are targeted?
Can I get a taste of what it’s like?
How long is each program? How much does it cost? How can I order?
Who are the storytellers?
What are the DVD extras?
What are the benefits for parents, schools, librarians, and children?
What are some of the other benefits of storytelling for children?
How can I order?

What is StoryWatchers Club™?
StoryWatchers Club is a multi-award-winning children’s DVD series that is highly entertaining as well as educational. 

Enter the StoryWatchers clubhouse as a collection of the nation's top professional storytellers bring their most amazing tales to life!  Special effects, animation, music, and a cast of multicultural clubhouse puppets humorously lead the way from one story to the next.

  • Children feel the magic and energy of each live, fun-filled, humorous performance right along with the kids in the studio audience!
  • Imparts to children the importance of using their imaginations, building listening and verbal skills, inspiring them to read and write, and exposing them to global cultures.
  • Appeals to parents who care about what their children watch – not only the entertainment value, but the educational value and wholesomeness as well. Buy Series Now

Tell me about each program in the series
StoryWatchers Club™ Keys to Imagination
Albert Einstein once said that imagination was more important than knowledge. With award-winning storytelling and wacky clubhouse adventures, join the StoryWatchers Club kids and discover how right Einstein was! Children will learn that polar bears really can dance, the story of Cinderella is a bit different when told from the Fairy Godmother’s point of view, a folded paper or twisted string can bring a story to life, and a wide mouth frog can spark the creativity in us all! 
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StoryWatchers Club™ World Folktales, Vol. 1
Join Cody, Kelly and the rest of the gang in the StoryWatchers Clubhouse as they explore and come to appreciate global cultures. And enjoy several phenomenal stories told by four of nation’s most captivating and talented professional storytellers! They include Bridget & The Lurikeen, a tale of the wee folk and their magic, the hysterical Vingananee & The Tree Toad, a West African Anansi tale - How the Moon Came to Be in the Sky, and Men-down-min, a mesmerizing Ojibwa story!
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StoryWatchers Club™ Good Character
Have fun while understanding the importance of having good character right alongside our StoryWatchers Clubhouse gang as they learn some simple yet powerful lessons. And enjoy stories by some of the nation's top professional storytellers! Children will learn that greed will eventually catch up with them, what goes around comes around so being nice counts, teamwork can be more rewarding than doing things yourself, and you’ll never go wrong by doing what’s right!
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StoryWatchers Club™ Our Planet
Learn to enjoy and appreciate nature with Cody, Kelly, Jordan, Juan, Tamayo, and Jada – the kids in the StoryWatchers clubhouse – as they take a fresh look at the world around them. And enjoy four enchanting storytellers as they take you on a journey around Our Planet! Join Walter the Water Molecule’s exciting journey through the water cycle, discover how the smallest bird in the forest became the king of them all, how Binky planted seeds and found his way back home, and how the kids who hugged the trees saved the forest!
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StoryWatchers Club™ Christmas
Cody, Kelly, and the kids in the StoryWatchers clubhouse learn that Christmas is about more than receiving gifts. Their story is weaved around four little known Christmas stories from four amazing storytellers! Discover what happens when a little boy decides to give Santa a gift, the touching story of an immigrant family’s first Christmas in America, a German tale of Count Otto, The Fairy Queen, and the first Christmas tree, and what happened when Santa declared, “Cancel Christmas, just cancel it!”
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What ages are targeted?
Children ages 4-10.  Older children and parents will enjoy the stories as much!

Can I get a taste of what it’s like?
Sure! Watch a 4-minute video clip online.  

How long is each program? How much does it cost? How can I order?

Keys to Imagination $19.95 
length: 53 min.
World Folktales, Vol. 1 $19.95 
length: 52 min.
Good Character $19.95
length: 50 min.
Our Planet  $19.95
length: 50 min.
Christmas     $19.95
length: 47 min.

To order, go to our online store or call 1-877-STORY-98 (1-877-786-7998) 24/7, Visa/MC

Who are the storytellers?
Fourteen full-time professional storytellers were captured on film before a live television studio audience of children at WHMB TV Indianapolis. They are:

Each DVD program features 4 or 5 of the above storytellers, each telling one of the most outstanding stories from their repertoire.

What are the DVD extras?

  1. Personal interviews with each storyteller
  2. “Storytelling” – a 17-minute documentary-style piece on the art of storytelling as conveyed by the storytellers themselves, including input from parents and teachers as well.
  3. Kids Tell Stories, Too – a video montage of children telling stories
  4. Music Video
  5. Behind-the-Scenes: The Making of StoryWatchers Club™
  6. Trailer

What are the benefits for parents, schools, librarians, and children?
Aside from parents and grandparents, those who best understand the inherent values in the art of storytelling for children are school administrators, librarians, festival planners, and children’s museums. Not coincidentally, schools, libraries, festivals, and museums are among the main venues in which professional storytellers are hired! StoryWatchers Club™ Adventures in Storytelling is a valuable resource for each of these venues to have on their shelves, because this new DVD series serves to complement and support the significant investments these organizations have made in storytelling programs throughout the years. In summary, some of the benefits are:

For the Parent... StoryWatchers Club™ instills high moral values, exposes children to global cultures, and promotes discussion and interaction between child and parent. It’s a program that brings the entire family together.

For the Teacher... A wonderful tool to reinforce your curriculum.

For the Librarian... Whether you hire professional storytellers or do your own Storytime programs, having this series in your AV section adds a tool to your existing programs and raises awareness in your community about the art of storytelling resulting in increased attendance.

For the Child… Teaches communication and interaction with others, builds listening, reading, and verbal skills, encourages their creative imaginations to soar, and promotes writing and telling their own stories. Inspires kids to read.

What are some of the other benefits of storytelling for children?
StoryWatchers Club™ programs, which feature some of the nation’s top professional storytellers, will serve to complement the goals that schools, libraries, festivals, and children’s museums have sought to achieve through storytelling. Here are some of these goals:

  1. Sparks imagination. When kids write or tell their own stories, they create from within. StoryWatchers Club™ features Albert Einstein’s famous imagination-is-more-important-than-knowledge quote on its back cover.
  2. Moves a child to write and tell their own stories (a concept reinforced in the DVD Special Feature, “Kids Tell Stories, Too”).
  3. Raises the desire to read. If a child is interested in a folktale, he/she may be inspired to read about folktales.
  4. Creates global awareness through different genres of storytelling, holidays, multicultural events, and traditions from other countries.
  5. Promotes interaction with parents to talk about stories from their own childhood.
  6. Increases communication skills and confidence.
  7. Opens discussion for stories with moral issues or with a particular point of view.
  8. Inspires kids to think more about the world around them.
  9. Provides a deeper understanding of people’s diverse heritages.

How can I order?

Web: online store
Phone:  877-STORY-98 (877-786-7998)
Fax: 302-370-6684
Email: See contact us page
Mail: 2106 Oak Ln., Corinth, MS 38834
PO's: Purchase orders for public libraries and schools only. Submit via fax, email or phone.

 

  

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