How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell

In Chapter II., I have tried to give my conception of the general aim of story-telling in school. From that conception, it is not difficult to deduce certain specific uses. The...

It soon becomes easy to pick out from a collection such stories as can be well told; but at no time is it easy to find a sufficient number of such stories. Stories simple, direc...

Let us first consider together the primary matter of the _aim_ in educational story-telling. On our conception of this must depend very largely all decisions as to choice and me...

Selection, and, if necessary, adaptation--these are the preliminaries to the act of telling. That, after all, is the real test of one's power. That is the real joy, when achieve...

There is one picture which I can always review, in my own collection of past scenes, though many a more highly coloured one has been irrevocably curtained by the folds of forget...

Nursery Rhymes 133 Five Little White Heads 134 Bird Thoughts 134 How we came to have Pink Roses 135 Raggylug 135 The Golden Cobwebs 138 Why the Morning-Glory climbs 142 The Stor...

The Qualities Children like, and why Qualities necessary for Oral Delivery Examples: _The Three Bears_, _The Three Little Pigs_, _The Old Woman and her Pig_ Suggestions as to th...

How to make a long Story short How to fill out a short Story General Changes commonly desirable Examples: _The Nürnberg Stove_, by Ouida; _The King of the Golden River_, by Rusk...

Essential Nature of the Story Kind of Appreciation necessary Suggestions for gaining Mastery of Facts Arrangement of Children The Story-teller's Mood A few Principles of Method,...