Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 100 pages of information about Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours.

Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 100 pages of information about Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours.

Mary’s meadow.  Ewing.

Men of iron, Ch. 24, 26, 27.  Pyle.

Monkey that would not kill.  Drummond.

Njal’s burning. 
  Njals saga.  Heroes of Iceland; ed. by French.

.007. 
  Kipling.  Day’s work.

Of that harvest feast. 
  French.  Story of Rolf and the viking’s bow.

Onatoga’s sacrifice. (Story of the Piasau bird.)
  Indian stories retold from St. Nicholas. 
  St. Nicholas, v. 15, p. 376.

Our first whale. 
  Bullen.  Cruise of the Cachalot.

Peter Schlemihl.  Chamisso.

Peter Spots, fireman. 
  Hill.  Fighting fire.

“Pieces of eight.” 
  Stevenson.  Treasure island.

The Pickwickians disport themselves on the ice. 
  Dickens.  Pickwick papers.

Rab and his friends.  Brown.

The race. 
  Dodge.  Hans Brinker.

Raggylug; the story of a cottontail rabbit. 
  Seton.  Wild animals I have known.

Rikki-tikki-tavi. 
  Kipling.  Jungle book.

Rip Van Winkle. 
  Irving.  Sketch book.

Rose and the ring.  Thackeray.

The Snow queen.  Andersen.

Story of Sonny Sahib.  Ch. 3, 4, 10.  Cotes.

Solomon Crow’s Christmas pockets.  Stuart.

Some other birds are taught to fly. 
  Wiggin.  Bird’s Christmas Carol.

Sons of the vikings. 
  Boyesen.  Modern vikings.

Tom’s first royal dinner. 
  Clemens.  Prince and the pauper.

Toomai of the elephants. 
  Kipling.  Jungle book.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings.  Harris.

A voyage of discovery. 
  Wyss.  Swiss family Robinson.

Voyage to Lilliput. 
  Swift.  Gulliver’s travels.

Widow O’Callaghan’s boys.  Ch. 20, 21.  Zollinger. 
  See also Hassler.  Graded list of stories for reading aloud.

BOOKS ABOUT STORY TELLING.

Best sources:

  Bryant, S.C.  How to tell stories to children.

One of the most practical and helpful books on the subject.  Fine common-sense is used in all that is said on the purpose of story-telling, the selection of stories and how to adapt and to tell the story.  Some specific uses of the story in the school room are given besides a graded collection of thirty-two stories and a short list of books in which the story teller will find stories not too far from the form in which they are needed.

  Cowles, J.D.  The art of story telling.

    A useful elementary book.  Contains about 50 stories in form
    suited to young children.

  Lyman, Edna.  Story telling; what to tell and how to tell it.

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