Contents -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Trafficking in Human Possibilities -- I: ORAL NARRATIVES -- 1 Different - But Oh How Like! -- 2 Betsy Whyte and the Dreaming -- 3 Developing Teaching as Storytelling -- II: HISTORICAL NARRATIVES -- 4 Storyseeds: Creating Curriculum Stories -- 5 Venturesome Ways: Historical Fiction and the Novels of Henrietta Branford -- 6 The Long Road to Canterbury: Children's Chaucer -- III: VISUAL NARRATIVES -- 7 The Art and the Dragon: Intertextuality in the Pictorial Narratives of Dragon Feathers -- 8 Tell Me a Picture: Stories in Museums -- 9 'Beware Beware': Image, Word and Apprehension -- IV: LITERARY NARRATIVES -- 10 'Play Out the Play': Approaching Shakespeare's Plays with Primary School Children through Active Storytelling -- 11 'A Light in the Darkness': George Macdonald's Stories for Children -- 12 Monologues and Spiels: The 'I' of my Poems -- V: NEW NARRATIVES -- 13 Past Perfect and Future Conditional: The Challenge of New Texts -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V.