Guest Post: Courtesy of: The Library Fairy ®  The Six Secrets of Storytelling to Skyrocket Literacy  by The Library Fairy ®  We’ve all been there.   It’s that moment before you start a story and  you see a restless group of children all looking at you.   You say to yourself, “How am I going to engage  them? Should I stand on my head? Make  animal noises? Break out in song?”  As a seasoned children’s storyteller performing  live and podcast programs, I’ve honed some secrets to truly engage children in the ancient  art of folklore. Remember, storytelling is a powerful catalyst of cognitive, literacy and language  skills. The better the telling of the story, the better children will…