The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories

This practical manual offers guidance for parents, teachers, and librarians on selecting and telling oral stories to children, explaining purposes for home, school, and library settings; criteria for choosing age-appropriate material; techniques of vocal delivery, pacing, and simplification; and thematic approaches including jingles, fables, myths, holiday and Bible tales. It emphasizes ethical and aesthetic aims, suggests sequences for systematic teaching, and encourages cultivating literary taste. The second part supplies nearly fifty ready-to-tell stories and indexes for quick use.