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In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance as well as in literary form.
- Story-Telling in the Home
- Why Tell Stories in School?
- How to Choose Stories for Telling
- The Telling of the Story
- Use of the Story in Primary Grades
- Jingles, Fables, and Folk-Lore
- Myth and Hero Tale
- Holiday and Vacation Stories
- Bible Stories
- Systematic Story-Telling
- The Joy of Story-Telling
- Story-Telling as an Art
- Selected Stories to Tell; The Robin’s Carol; The Little Baldhead; Why the Bear Sleeps All Winter; The Little Boy Who Forgot to Wash His Hands
- The Honest Woodman; Tabby and the Mice; The Gold Bugs
- The History of Tip-Top
- The Good King
- The Plowman Who Found Content
- King of the Frogs; The Adder That Did Not Hear
- The North Star; The Cobbler
- Opechee the Robin Redbreast; The Country Cat
- Legend of the Arbutus; Why the Dog Cannot Endure the Cat, Nor the Cat the Mouse
- The Miser of Takhoma
- Little Sister Kindness and the Loving Stitches
- The Queen’s Necklace
- Robin Hood and Sir Richard-at-the-Lee
- How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men
- King Midas’ Ears
- Hold Fast, Tom
- Nils and the Bear
- Jericho Bob
- Jerusalem Artie’s Christmas Dinner
- Robin’s Christmas
- A Tale of the Christ Child
- Story of the Ark; The Flood; The Olive Leaf; The Rainbow of Promise
- The Story of David
- The Twenty-third Psalm