Infants and toddlers encounter numerous spoken story experiences early in their lives: conversations, oral stories, and language games such as songs and rhymes. Many adults are even surprised to learn that children this young need these kinds of natural language experiences at all. Adults help very young children take a step along the path toward loving stories and becoming competent language users and storytellers when they provide experiences that foster enjoyment and engagement with sounds, symbols, and words, which are the precursors of the more complex structures they call stories. The more natural conversations and other spoken language experiences that infants and toddlers have in their very early years, the more likely they will become confident speakers, storytellers, and readers and writers when they are older. In this article, the authors discuss how to help very young children enjoy and engage with language and stories when they can't yet understand all of what adults say. To be very young children's "best storytellers," the authors suggest adults should: (1) provide models of language in use; (2) tailor experiences to respond to children's interests, needs, and backgrounds; (3) encourage children to observe, listen, and imitate what they see and hear; and (4) respond to and encourage infants' and toddlers' particular ways of communicating and storytelling.