Storytelling and storyreading

The writer thinks that it would be best to first answer the question, what is storytelling? A number of the storytelling artists do not associate storytelling with reading aloud. They feel that they are two separate entities. Storytelling is usually referred to as the telling of a story without the aid of the printed page, pictures, or any properties which would break the magnetic flow between the listener and the teller. The main difference between the telling and the reading of a story is that the teller is free; the reader is bound. By this last statement it is meant that the reader has to hold the book in his hand and follow