Storybox Playlist
Storybox Playlist: Stories for Understanding Your Child

The story is only the beginning — and that is uniquely the case with stories that help us understand each other. Stories that build empathy, stories that model different personality types and stories that give us a window into why people behave the way they do.

Introduction Part One: A Single Stack of Stones

In the very first Dry Gables story, J.B. Bauer, the tone's stone mason and sculptor, tells us all about the magical way the town was founded.

30 min

Four Kinds of Pickers

It is blueberry season and when Nanni and Poppi come to visit, Poppi teaches Sylvia that there are four different kinds of blueberry pickers. Which kind are you?

18 min

Part One: An Introduction

One day, a seemingly ordinary husband, father, and teacher learns that he has the “mark” of a superhero, and this realization opens his eyes to leaning How to Be Super.

22 min

Song of the Hermit Thrush: Part One

Martin wonders which Wilderness School group he will be part of as he listens to the descriptions of each and feels like he could belong to them all.

35 min

Farm Trip

It's time for the young mice to visit Mr. Arnold's Bug Farm! Dreamy, however, doesn't want to go.

20 min

About the Author

David Sewell McCann

Story Spinner

David Sewell McCann fell in love with spinning stories in first grade – the day a storyteller came to his class and captured his mind and imagination. He has been engaged in storytelling all of his adult life through painting, film-making, teaching and performing. Out of his experience as a Waldorf elementary class teacher and parent, he has developed a four step method of intuitive storytelling, which he now shares through workshops and through this website.