Storybox Playlist: Stories for Healthy Competition
These stories are of healthy competition, winning and losing, what it is to lead a team, and what it is to play on a team: skills useful for anyone who loves to play games.
Our theme this week is: Stories of Healthy Competition.
Junkyard Tales: The Great Mudball Tournament (story collection)
When Sergeant, the steadfast Junkyard watchdog, tells the other animals that they have been invited to a “mudball” tournament in town, their favorite game no longer feels quite so fun. This is especially the case for Spiro, the fun loving skunk, and the team’s coach. Luckily Dizzy, one of the mice – and a huge mudball enthusiast – inspires everyone with her authentic love of the game.
The Race
Piper is worried about competing with her friend Elise in a race, but meets a roadrunner and jackrabbit who tech her that friends…
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Dustin the Sand Crab
Dustin the crab learns that it’s better to create change than to complain about what you don’t like, and this leads to fun…
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Mud Boat Races
It’s been raining for days, and now the paths are muddy streams. What to do?
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Pick-Up League
Martin is too young to join the baseball team, so Daddy pulls together a creative and crazy game with friends and family.
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About the authors
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David Sewell McCann
Story SpinnerDavid 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.
