Being expressive when sharing a story helps young listeners engage with what they are hearing. Being expressive might mean using a soft voice for a gentle bedtime story, such as Mem Fox's Time for Bed, or making your voice loud and growling like a tiger when telling a story about Zoo animals. This also entails changing your tone of voice or accent for different characters. Another part of being expressive is using gestures, facial expressions, and body language in ways that support the story telling. If young children are accustomed to hearing expressive language, they will use it themselves when they begin to tell their own stories.