Everything you need to know to tell stories successfully to children: choosing material, creating and maintaining effect, using gestures, capturing straying attentions, and more. 18 ready-for-telling stories written especially for youngsters.
"It is a delight to see a new edition of this long out-of-print book, the best on the subject of stpry-telling." —The Junior Bookshelf. Everything you need to know to tell stories successfully to children: choosing material, using gestures, capturing straying attentions, more. 18 ready-for-telling stories written especially for youngsters. Annotated bibliography of 135 stories.
CONTENTS
PART I
THE ART OF STORY-TELLING
I. THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE STORY.
II. THE ESSENTIALS OF THE STORY
III. THE ARTIFICES OF STORY-TELLING
IV. ELEMENTS TO AVOID IN SELECTION OF MATERIAL
V. ELEMENTS TO SEEK IN THE CHOICE OF MATERIAL
VI. How TO OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN THE EFFECT OF THE STORY.
VII. QUESTIONS ASKED BY TEACHERS
THE STORIES
STURLA, THE HISTORIAN
CONTENTS
A SAGA.
THE LEGEND OF ST. CHRISTOPHER
ARTHUR IN THE CAVE HAFIZ, THE STONE-CUTTER
To YOUR GOOD HEALTH
THE PROUD COCK
SNEGOURKA
THE WATER NIXIE
THE BLUE ROSE
THE TWO FROGS
THE WISE OLD SHEPHERD
THE FOLLY OF PANIC
THE TRUE SPIRIT OF A FESTIVAL
FILIAL PIETY .
THREE STORIES FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN-The Swineherd,The Nightingale , The Princess on the Pea
PART III
A NEW LIST OF STORIES
FANCIFUL STORIES HANS ANDERSEN
CONTENTS
POETRY AND NONSENSE
STORIES OF THE SAINTS
MYTH AND LEGEND.
THE FOLK TALE!
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