Storyelling plays a very crucial role in children upbringing because it is here to introduce them to languauge and literature,the rhythm of words,the pattern. They all started to get in their little heads and when they come to reading,there is a great advantage because they understood it.
Telling stories teach children also force them an imagination when they started to come to some understandings of the world they are living in.
I have been telling stories for long time in the library over the years and l found that the children will believe anything you tell them and you can use anything to tell them. l think l have used the toilet roll holders with mop cleaners stuck to them to make a hall of a little family. l tell the story with the apple when l cut in half and revealed a deautifu star. I have also to think to bag of a back. So may be when parents were starting to thin about the story telling,may be an item about treasure things that they had from their childnood,may be a photo that was taken years and years ago,all these things prompt language.