How to Tell Stories to Children and Some Stories to Tell

By Bryant, Sara Cone

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Title:	How to Tell Stories to Children and Some Stories to Tell
Author:	Bryant, Sara Cone
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part those which I have found to be best liked by the children to whom I have told these and others. I have tried to reproduce the form in which I actually tell them, although that inevitably varies with every repetition, feeling that it would be of greater value to another story?teller than a more closely literary form. For the same reason, I have confined my statements of theory as to method, to those which reflect my own experience; my ?rules? were drawn from introspection and retrospection, at the urging of others, long after the instinctive method they exemplify had become habitual.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: How To Tell Stories To Children And Some Stories To Tell, 1 -- Sara Cone Bryant, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- Introduction, 3 -- Chapter I. THE PURPOSE OF STORY?TELLING IN SCHOOL, 8 -- THE FAIRY STORY, 15 -- THE NONSENSE TALE, 18 -- THE NATURE STORY, 19 -- THE HISTORICAL STORY, 22 -- Chapter II. SELECTION OF STORIES TO TELL, 24 -- THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS[1], 29 -- THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG[1], 32 -- CERTAIN TYPES OF STORY CLASSIFIED, 38 -- Chapter III. ADAPTATION OF STORIES FOR TELLING, 40 -- THE GOLDEN RIVER[1], 44 -- The Black Stone, 48 -- The Two Black Stones, 49 -- THE RED THREAD OF COURAGE[1], 53 -- THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE[1], 55 -- Chapter IV. HOW TO TELL THE STORY, 58 -- Chapter V. SOME SPECIFIC SCHOOLROOM USES OF STORY?TELLING, 73 -- STORIES SELECTED AND ADAPTED FOR TELLING, 81 -- FIVE LITTLE WHITE HEADS[1], 82 -- BIRD THOUGHTS[2], 82 -- HOW WE CAME TO HAVE PINK ROSES[1], 83 -- RAGGYLUG[2], 83 -- THE GOLDEN COBWEBS[1], 85 -- WHY THE MORNING?GLORY CLIMBS[1], 88 -- THE STORY OF LITTLE TAVWOTS[1], 89 -- THE PIG BROTHER[1], 90 -- THE CAKE[1], 93 -- THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN TOWN[1], 94 -- WHY THE EVERGREEN TREES KEEP THEIR LEAVES IN WINTER[1], 99 -- THE STAR DOLLARS[1], 102 -- THE LION AND THE GNAT[1], 103 -- ESPECIALLY FOR CLASSES II. AND III, 107 -- THE CAT AND THE PARROT, 107 -- THE RAT PRINCESS[1], 110 -- THE FROG AND THE OX, 112 -- THE FIRE?BRINGER[1], 113 -- THE BURNING OF THE RICEFIELDS[1], 116 -- THE STORY OF WYLIE[1], 118 -- LITTLE DAYLIGHT[1], 121 -- THE SAILOR MAN[1], 130 -- THE STORY OF JAIRUS'S DAUGHTER[1], 131 -- ESPECIALLY FOR CLASSES IV. AND V, 133 -- ARTHUR AND THE SWORD[1], 133 -- TARPEIA, 136