The Power of Story

A powerful statement; "Pick any time of the day or night and somewhere, everywhere, stories are being told.  They overlap and flow across one another, then pull away again just as waves do upon the shore.  It is this knack that stories have of rubbing up against one another that makes the world an interesting place,a  place of greater possibility than it would be if we told our tales alone.

This is impossible, of course.  Make no mistake, everyone's story touches someone else's.  And every brush of one life tale upon another, be it ever so gentle, creates something new: a pathway that wasn't there before.  The possibility to create a new tale." By Cameron Dokey, Winter's Child copyright 2009.

This is the season for stories.  Make yours a special one and send it out into the world.

Book Talk

                                   Storyteller's Daughter

Cameron Dokey

A wonderful retelling of the Arabian Nights, that shares the power of stories and love.  After his wife's betrayal the king decrees that he will take a new wife every day. In an effort to save the young women of the realm, Shahrazad volunteers to be his wife.  As a way to protect her life and hopefully heal the king, she begins a story each evening yet never quite finishing them.  Each telling fascinates the king so that he lets Shahrazad live night after night.  But how many stories can you tell before you run out?  And when an unexpected catastrophe happens will Shahrazad's stories protect her?  This is a fantastic new version of an old classic.  It is a simple and enchanting story.