Astonishment and connivance in fictional play. Reading fiction in kindergarten

The question of verisimilitude and of its different avatars is rarely explored with younger children. It is however constitutive of their abilities to articulate the lived experience and the narrated experience, and therefore how they may interpret a story.In this contribution, different situations are reported in which young pupils were able to construct the concept of story with the required flexibility. These situations show that it is not premature to introduce children to this issue (the editorial offer is diverse enough) and that these young pupils are actually able to enjoy the power of “stories”.