Abstract Objective Understand the perceptions of storytelling from the perspective of hospitalized children. Methods After a brief storytelling, 12 children admitted to a university hospital in the city of São Paulo were interviewed and their testimonies were treated by Bardin’s content analysis method. Project approved by the Research Ethics Committee and authorized by the hospital service management entity. Results Two thematic categories were created “previous storytelling experiences” and “hospital storytelling experience”. In the first category, all children reported previous experiences […]