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CONTENTS
- Some Suggestions for the Storyteller
- Additional suggestions for method.—Two valuable types of story.—Sources for stories.—A graded list of stories to dramatize and retell...................................................ix
- Story-Telling in Teaching English
- Importance of oral methods.—Opportunity of the primary grades.—Points to be observed in dramatizing and retelling, in connection with English....................................xxix
- STORIES TO TELL CHILDREN
- Two Little Riddles in Rhyme.............................1
- The Little Pink Rose....................................1
- The Cock-a-doo-dle-doo..................................4
- The Cloud...............................................4
- The Little Red hen......................................7
- The Gingerbread Man.....................................8
- The Little Jackals and the Lion........................15
- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse...................19
- Little Jack Rollaround.................................23
- How Brother Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant...29
- The Little Half-Chick..................................33
- The Lambikin...........................................38
- The Blackberry-Bush....................................42
- The Fairies............................................47
- The Adventures of the Little Field Mouse...............49
- Another Little Red Hen.................................53
- The Story of the Little Rid Hin........................57
- The Story of Epaminondas and his Auntie................63
- The Boy who cried "Wolf!"..............................68
- The Frog King..........................................69
- The Sun and the Wind...................................71
- The Little Jackal and the Alligator....................72
- The Larks in the Cornfield.............................80
- A True Story about a Girl (Louisa Alcott)..............82
- My Kingdom.............................................88
- Piccola................................................90
- The Little Fir Tree....................................92
- How Moses was Saved....................................99
- The Ten Fairies.......................................103
- The Elves and the Shoemaker...........................109
- Who killed the Otter's Babies?........................113
- Early.................................................116
- The Brahmin, the Tiger, and the Jackal................117
- The Little Jackal and the Camel.......................125
- The Gulls of Salt Lake................................129
- The Nightingale.......................................134
- Margery's Garden......................................145
- The Little Cotyledons.................................159
- The Talkative Tortoise................................165
- Robert of Sicily......................................168
- The Jealous Courtiers.................................177
- Prince Cherry.........................................181
- The Gold in the Orchard...............................194
- Margaret of New Orleans...............................195
- The Dagda's Harp......................................200
- The Tailor and the Three Beasts.......................205
- The Castle of Fortune.................................215
- David and Goliath.....................................224
- The Shepherd's Song...................................231
- The Hidden Servants...................................234
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