Based on a UNESCO survey, Indonesian people's reading interest was only 0.001 percent. That is, in a thousand communities there is only one community that has a reading interest. Our reading literacy score was still very low. (UNESCO, 2016). Based on data from Elementary School 01 Tulung Agung, in the 3.5, and 6 grades with a total of 33 students, it was found that interest in learning decreased from a percentage of 75% to 60% because it required students to study online. The research objective was to determine the effect of storytelling on reading interest in school-age children at Elementary School 01 Tulung Agung in 2021. The type used in this study was the One Group Pretest-Posttest, with the sampling technique used the total sampling. A sample of 33 respondents used the Wilcoxon statistical test. Based on the table of statistical test results using the Wilcoxon test with p = 0.001 it was found that there was a difference in reading interest in school-age children before and after doing storytelling because the significance value of p <0.05, there was an improvement of influence before and after the intervention. The study result are expected that students at Elementary School 01 Tulung Agung can continue to increase their interest in reading at home and at school.