PART ONE

STORY-TELLING AND THE ARTS OF EXPRESSION—ESTABLISHING STANDARDS

CHAPTER

I. THE PURPOSE AND AIM OF STORY-TELLING 1

II. THE STORY INTERESTS OF CHILDHOOD—A. RHYTHMIC PERIOD 12

Sources of Story Material for the Rhythmic Period 19

III. THE STORY INTERESTS OF CHILDHOOD—B. IMAGINATIVE PERIOD 20

Bibliography of Fairy Tales 31

IV. THE STORY INTERESTS OF CHILDHOOD—C. HEROIC PERIOD 32

Sources of Story Material for the Heroic Period 41

V. THE STORY INTERESTS OF CHILDHOOD—D. ROMANTIC PERIOD 42

Sources of Story Material for the Romantic Period 51

VI. BUILDING THE STORY 52

VII. TELLING THE STORY 58

Books on Story-Telling 68

VIII. STORY-TELLING TO LEAD TO AN APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE 69

Some Authors and Selections That Can Be Presented through the Story-Telling Method 81

Sources of Material to Lead to an Appreciation of Literature 82

IX. STORY-TELLING TO AWAKEN AN APPRECIATION OF MUSIC 83

Illustrative Story, “A Boy of Old Vienna” 89

Sources of Material to Awaken an Appreciation of Music 94

Pictures to Use in Telling Musical Stories 94

X. STORY-TELLING TO AWAKEN AN APPRECIATION OF ART 95

Artists and Paintings That Can Be Presented to Young Children through the Story-Telling Method 102

Artists and Paintings for Children of the Intermediate Period 103

Artists and Paintings That Lead to Appreciation of the Beautiful and to Respect for Labor 104

Artists and Paintings for the Heroic and Epic Periods 105

Bibliography of Art Story Material 105

Sources for Moderate-Priced Reproductions of Masterpieces 106

XI. DRAMATIZATION 107

Pictures Containing Subjects for Dramatization 116

Books and Stories for Use in Dramatic Work with Little Children 116

Bibliography of Material for Dramatization 117

XII. BIBLE STORIES 118

Sources of Material for Bible Stories 131

XIII. STORY-TELLING AND THE TEACHING OF ETHICS 132

Stories to Develop or Stamp out Certain Traits and Instincts 137

Sources of Material to Use in the Teaching of Ethics 140