Mission Statement

The mission of The Story Home is to provide original and classic children’s audio stories for free, to delight and inspire children and their families, throughout the world.

The Story Home offers an authentic place for curiosity, imagination, and self discovery.

The Story Home believes that the imagination of a child is a priceless resource and must be given time, encouragement, and education.

Meet The Story Home Folks: Alan and Sharon Scofield

Sharon and Alan Scofield live in Northern California and share the love of music, dance and many creative projects. Alan has a daughter who is grown and also lives in the area.

The Story Home website was created in January, 2007 because, as time went on, more and more people asked to hear Alan’s original stories. At first, we gave Alan’s stories as gifts to our friends and family. Though they were meant for children, we found that many parents liked them too!

One day, we thought “why not share these stories with the world, and some great classic tales as well?” And so The Story Home was created.

As the weeks and months roll ahead, we hope you will enjoy our podcasts and invite your friends and families to visit The Story Home beneath the stars, discovering the wonder and wisdom found in a good story.

ABOUT ALAN (The Story Teller)

Arts Educator, Storyteller, Nationally known Master Teacher of Dance and Founding Director of Young Imaginations Arts Education Agency.

Alan has been called the “Danny Kaye of the North Bay” because of his magical connection with children through music, stories and dance. As an educator for twenty five years he has touched the lives of a generation of public school children and is now passing down his techniques of teaching to today’s arts educators and classroom teachers. Twenty years ago, he co-founded Young Imaginations, Northern California’s acclaimed arts-education agency and joined the College of Marin’s Dance faculty. In 1994, Alan Scofield was invited to St. Marks School, to be a storyteller, as part of their “Roots and Wings” program, an ongoing series in which character education is promoted through presentations by community leaders. Each year he has created and presented a story which uniquely portrays the essence of timeless values for young people. As his storytelling legacy grew, he employed stories from history and life in his teaching residencies, such as Young Imaginations “Dance Through The Decades” program, in association with the Kiddo foundation. Notable also is Scofield’s dance program for kindergarteners, taught primarily in rhyming couplets and storytelling narratives.

Scofield states: “I have seen the power of a story transform a room a thousand times. The true teacher is a storyteller, and a good story teaches.”

(For further biographical information please visit www.alanscofield.com)

ABOUT SHARON

Co-creator of The Story Home, Sharon is a master of many talents, artistic as well as business.

Her love of the arts has fed her creative side since she was a child. Growing up she studied classical piano and viola. In college she studied voice and continued with private voice lessons. She continues to write, sing and produce music for Alan’s dances as well as producing The Story Home stories for the website. She is an instructor with Young Imaginations, teaching school children music and dance, in addition to being a substitute teacher in the Marin county school district. In her not so spare time, Sharon also enjoys keeping in shape attending modern and jazz dance classes and performing with the College of Marin Dance Company. Her other talents include riding and training horses, cooking, designing wedding gowns and creating costumes for dancers. Sharon also wears a business hat. She has a B.S. degree in business marketing and has worked in the corporate world as an account executive for a leading book publisher. With her knowledge of business and the arts, she found a way for all children to hear Alan’s wonderful stories, and so, the “The Story Home” was created.