Ascension : Kids Klub
Submitted by The Islander (Sarah Coverdale) 01.02.2007 (Article Archived on 15.02.2007)

Long ago and far away…Storytelling is different from reading a book, it has been happening since before people could write – in fact since people were able to talk to each other.

Even after the invention of writing not many people were actually able to master the skill so stories passed from lips to ears, changing as each teller forgot things, or deliberately left them out, and replaced them with their own inventions. This is the "oral tradition".

Even now we tell stories, urban myths and personal stories almost without realising it. Stories are learned picture by picture, rather than word by word, each telling is different as the teller chooses their words to suit their audience.  

Almost all traditional tales we read started out by making up stories as they went along using information they heard from someone else – a bit like the game Chinese Whispers. That is why there can be different events although the main things stay the same, in some of the well known stories like The Three Little Pigs.

How would you end the story of the three little pigs?

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