Father's Day:Celebrate father's day with storytelling

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Celebrate father's day with a storytelling. Popular Short Story for Children is:The Adventures of Pinocchio. Geppetto loves Pinocchio, and he gives his own breakfast and ABC book to him.

"Book s and stories are important in all part of Physical, Intellectual, Language, Emotional and Social development.

1. For physical development book helps to develop gross-, and fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination (e.g.: pointing at the picture).
2. For intellectual development book helps to learn about the word as it gives new information. Books promote thinking, memorising and fantasy. Books play a very important role in intellectual development. Books help in imagination, concentration, gives new knowledge or with repetition children can easily memorise words, which will help them in their further studying.
3. Language development is mainly based on books. And this concerns to both spoken and the written language. Through storytelling children learn sounds, rhythms that occur in language, signs and symbols, but most importantly children learn to listen carefully.
4. In relation to emotional development as these stories are enjoyable children will have their favourite characters, and they can feel empathy with the characters. During story time children will laugh, scream, shout etc. as they interact with the story teller, they show the characters’ feelings with enthusiasm. Books provide a reach imaginative world and it gives a great pleasure to the child. Story telling is often a rest time before sleep.
5. Story telling is often happens in small groups, where children can improve their social development. They interact with the group, learn turn taking, sharing and plenty things about the society, and moral codes. Also children learn respect for books."

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“After they had gone another mile, Pinocchio heard the same little low voice saying to him:

'Bear it in mind, simpleton! Boys who refuse to study, and turn their backs upon books, schools, and masters, to pass their time in play and amusements, sooner or later come to a bad end... I know it by experience... and I can tell you. A day will come when you will weep as I am weeping now... but then it will be too late!...'

On hearing these words whispered very softly, the puppet, more frightened than ever, sprang down from the back of his donkey and went and took hold of his mouth.

Imagine his surprise when he found that the donkey was crying... and he was crying like a boy!” 

― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio - Chapter 30 Coming at last out of the surprise into which the Fairy's words had thrown him, Pinocchio asked for permission to give out the invitations. "Indeed, you may invite your friends to tomorrow's party. Only remember to return home before dark. Do you understand?" "I'll be back in one hour without fail," answered the Marionette. "Take care, Pinocchio! Boys give promises very easily, but they as easily forget them." "But I am not like those others. When I give my word I keep it." "We shall see. In case you do disobey, you will be the one to suffer, not anyone else." "Why?" "Because boys who do not listen to their elders always come to grief." "I certainly have," said Pinocchio, "but from now on, I obey." "We shall see if you are telling the truth." Without adding another word, the Marionette bade the good Fairy good-by, and singing and dancing, he left the house. In a little more than an hour, all his friends were invited. Some accepted quickly and gladly. Others had to be coaxed, but when they heard that the toast was to be buttered on both sides, they all ended by accepting the invitation with the words, "We'll come to please you." Now it must be known that, among all his friends, Pinocchio had one whom he loved most of all. The boy's real name was Romeo, but everyone called him Lamp-Wick, for he was long and thin and had a woebegone look about him. Lamp-Wick was the laziest boy in the school and the biggest mischief-maker, but Pinocchio loved him dearly. That day, he went straight to his friend's house to invite him to the party, but Lamp-Wick was not at home. He went a second time, and again a third, but still without success. Where could he be? Pinocchio searched here and there and everywhere, and finally discovered him hiding near a farmer's wagon. "What are you doing there?" asked Pinocchio, running up to him. "I am waiting for midnight to strike to go--" "Where?" "Far, far away!" "And I have gone to your house three times to look for you!" "What did you want from me?" "Haven't you heard the news? Don't you know what good luck is mine?" "What is it?" "Tomorrow I end my days as a Marionette and become a boy, like you and all my other friends." "May it bring you luck!" "Shall I see you at my party tomorrow?" "But I'm telling you that I go tonight." "At what time?" "At midnight." "And where are you going?" "To a real country--the best in the world--a wonderful place!" "What is it called?" "It is called the Land of Toys. Why don't you come, too?" "I? Oh, no!" "You are making a big mistake, Pinocchio. Believe me, if you don't come, you'll be sorry. Where can you find a place that will agree better with you and me? No schools, no teachers, no books! In that blessed place there is no such thing as study. Here, it is only on Saturdays that we have no school. In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!" "But how does one spend the day in the Land of Toys?" "Days are spent in play and enjoyment from morn till night. At night one goes to bed, and next morning, the good times begin all over again. What do you think of it?" "H'm--!" said Pinocchio, nodding his wooden head, as if to say, "It's the kind of life which would agree with me perfectly." "Do you want to go with me, then? Yes or no? You must make up your mind." "No, no, and again no! I have promised my kind Fairy to become a good boy, and I want to keep my word. Just see: The sun is setting and I must leave you and run. Good-by and good luck to you!" "Where are you going in such a hurry?" "Home. My good Fairy wants me to return home before night." "Wait two minutes more." "It's too late!" "Only two minutes." "And if the Fairy scolds me?" "Let her scold. After she gets tired, she will stop," said Lamp-Wick. "Are you going alone or with others?" "Alone? There will be more than a hundred of us!" "Will you walk?" "At midnight the wagon passes here that is to take us within the boundaries of that marvelous country." "How I wish midnight would strike!" "Why?" "To see you all set out together." "Stay here a while longer and you will see us!" "No, no. I want to return home." "Wait two more minutes." "I have waited too long as it is. The Fairy will be worried." "Poor Fairy! Is she afraid the bats will eat you up?" "Listen, Lamp-Wick," said the Marionette, "are you really sure that there are no schools in the Land of Toys?" "Not even the shadow of one." "Not even one teacher?" "Not one." "And one does not have to study?" "Never, never, never!" "What a great land!" said Pinocchio, feeling his mouth water. "What a beautiful land! I have never been there, but I can well imagine it." "Why don't you come, too?" "It is useless for you to tempt me! I told you I promised my good Fairy to behave myself, and I am going to keep my word." "Good-by, then, and remember me to the grammar schools, to the high schools, and even to the colleges if you meet them on the way." "Good-by, Lamp-Wick. Have a pleasant trip, enjoy yourself, and remember your friends once in a while." With these words, the Marionette started on his way home. Turning once more to his friend, he asked him: "But are you sure that, in that country, each week is composed of six Saturdays and one Sunday?" "Very sure!" "And that vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the thirty-first of December?" "Very, very sure!" "What a great country!" repeated Pinocchio, puzzled as to what to do. Then, in sudden determination, he said hurriedly: "Good-by for the last time, and good luck." "Good-by." "How soon will you go?" "Within two hours." "What a pity! If it were only one hour, I might wait for you." "And the Fairy?" "By this time I'm late, and one hour more or less makes very little difference." "Poor Pinocchio! And if the Fairy scolds you?" "Oh, I'll let her scold. After she gets tired, she will stop." In the meantime, the night became darker and darker. All at once in the distance a small light flickered. A queer sound could be heard, soft as a little bell, and faint and muffled like the buzz of a far-away mosquito. "There it is!" cried Lamp-Wick, jumping to his feet. "What?" whispered Pinocchio. "The wagon which is coming to get me. For the last time, are you coming or not?" "But is it really true that in that country boys never have to study?" "Never, never, never!" "What a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country! Oh--h--h!!"

This story comes from The Adventures of Pinocchio, by C. Collodi [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini]

Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa