The power of language gives children (and the rest of us) that "magic" talent of bringing to life that which is otherwise hidden from conscious awareness. From the viewpoint of one attempting to listen to children's languaging within experience so that the listening becomes a dialogic experience, the child storyteller seems to experience a hovering between the real and the imaginary, a feeling of being in two places at the same time, and a sense of being "lost in story." Children seem to experience life in a rather ambidextrous way so that the shifting of their languaging gears from real events to imaginative discourse is not discernible. (An example is an 8-year old boy's story of a snowman who came alive in which real people like his grandmother and real places like a downtown street play a part.) Their storying is simply contiguous with their own everyday lives. The researcher who listens using the structures of resonance (allowing the languaging to pierce the totality of one's listening), reverberation (listener attends to what concerns the child for the moment as well as to the language itself), and recognition (a listening which permits the languaging in storying to be heard from a distance) will find the experience of children's storytelling to be one of spontaneity, sensitivity, and sincerity. (A 13-page bibliography is attached.) (MHC)