| PAGE | ||
| Adder That Did Not Hear, The | Old Fable adapted | 149 |
| Ark, The | Bible | 251 |
| Birdie with a Yellow Bill | Robert Louis Stevenson | 6 |
| Cobbler, The | Old Tale adapted | 154 |
| Coming of Arthur, The | Richard Thomas Wyche | 75 |
| Country Cat, The | Grace MacGowan Cooke | 159 |
| David | Bible | 257 |
| Fisherman, The | Aesop Fable | 55 |
| Fountain, The | James Russell Lowell | 54 |
| Flood, The | Bible | 252 |
| Gold Bugs, The | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | 128 |
| Good King, The | Margaret and Clarence Weed | 137 |
| History of Tip-Top, The | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 131 |
| Hold-Fast Tom | Daniel Ker | 210 |
| Honest Woodman, The | Aesop Fable | 123 |
| How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men | E. M. Wilmot-Buxton | 200 |
| Japanese Lullaby | 5 | |
| Jericho Bob | Mrs. John Lane | 226 |
| Jerusalem Artie’s Christmas Dinner | Julia Darrow Cowles | 234 |
| King Midas’ Ears | Greek Myth adapted | 205 |
| King of the Frogs | Old Tale adapted | 147 |
| Legend of the Arbutus | Mary Catherine Judd | 162 |
| Lesson of Faith, A | Mrs. Gatty | 8 |
| Little Baldhead, The | Chinese Mother Goose | 114 |
| Little Boy Who Forgot to Wash His Hands, The | Jane Arnold | 120 |
| Little Sister Kindness and the Loving Stitches | Margaret Fox | 174 |
| My Bed Is a Boat | Robert Louis Stevenson | 7 |
| Miser of Takhoma, The | Katharine Berry Judson | 168 |
| Nils and the Bear | Selma Lagerlof | 218 |
| North Star, The | Mary Catherine Judd | 152 |
| Olive Leaf, The | Bible | 254 |
| Opechee, the Robin Redbreast | Mary Catherine Judd | 156 |
| Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake | Mother Goose | 52 |
| Pat, Pat | Chinese Mother Goose | 52 |
| Plowman Who Found Content, The | Old Tale adapted | 141 |
| Pussy Willows | Henry van Dyke | 53 |
| Queen’s Necklace, The | Helena Nyblom | 180 |
| Rainbow of Promise, The | Bible | 256 |
| Robin’s Carol, The | Henry van Dyke | 113 |
| Robin Hood and Sir Richard-at-the-Lee | Joyce Pollard | 191 |
| Robin’s Christmas | A. Gertrude Maynard (Old legend retold) | 240 |
| Sleep, Little Pigeon | Eugene Field | 5 |
| Story of Ithenthiela | Abbie Farwell Brown and James M. Bell | 60 |
| Tabby and the Mice | Old Tale adapted | 126 |
| Tale of the Christ Child | Phila Butler Bowman | 246 |
| Twenty-third Psalm | Bible | 261 |
| Why the Bear Sleeps All Winter | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | 115 |
| Why the Dog Cannot Endure the Cat | Old Tale adapted | 165 |
The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories
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About This Book
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.