/PRNewswire/ BYUtv, the home of inspiring family entertainment – available over cable, satellite and free streaming – today announced its slate of fall.
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Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”
Salman Rushdie
Reading and sharing stories when we were children, was as important as breathing. An oral tradition of storytelling existed before books were written and published. Mothers sang songs to their children to lull them to sleep, and stories of adventure, valour, romance and bravery fed our imagination.
Enid Blyton’s ‘Malory Towers’ was devoured and ‘The Famous Five’ were our undercover agents in crime detection. ‘The Panchatantra’ had us lamenting the naïveté of monkeys who hope to ride crocodiles unscathed, and ‘Aesop’s Fables’ made us cheer for the tortoise, and reject the arrogance of the hare.