The Art of Story-Telling

About this eBook

Author

Cowles, Julia Darrow, 1862-1919

Title

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

Credits

MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

LB: Education: Theory and practice of education

Subject

Children's stories

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66303

Release Date

September 14, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ART OF STORY-TELLING
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.PART I The Art of Story-Telling
5. 5.CHAPTER I Story-Telling in the Home — A Lesson of Faith [1] — FOOTNOTES
6. 6.CHAPTER II Why Tell Stories in School?
7. 7.CHAPTER III How to Choose Stories for Telling — Point of Contact — Is It Worth Telling? — Good Literary Form
8. 8.CHAPTER IV The Telling of the Story
9. 9.CHAPTER V Use of the Story in Primary Grades
10. 10.CHAPTER VI Jingles, Fables, and Folk-Lore — “The Story of Ithenthiela” [2] — FOOTNOTES
11. 11.CHAPTER VII Myth and Hero Tale — The Hero-Tale — The Coming of Arthur [3] — FOOTNOTES
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII Holiday and Vacation Stories — Vacation Stories
13. 13.CHAPTER IX Bible Stories
14. 14.CHAPTER X Systematic Story-Telling
15. 15.CHAPTER XI The Joy of Story-Telling — The Story Hour
16. 16.CHAPTER XII Story-Telling as an Art
17. 17.PART II Selected Stories to Tell
18. 18.Selected Stories to Tell — The Robin’s Carol [4] — The Little Baldhead [5] — Why the Bear Sleeps All Winter [6] — The Little Boy Who Forgot to Wash His Hands [7] — The Honest Woodman [8] — Tabby and the Mice [9] — The Gold Bugs [10] — The History of Tip-Top [11] — The Good King [12] — The Plowman Who Found Content [13] — King of the Frogs [14] — The Adder That Did Not Hear [15] — The North Star [16] — The Cobbler [17] — Opechee the Robin Redbreast [18] — The Country Cat [19] — Legend of the Arbutus [20] — Why the Dog Cannot Endure the Cat, Nor the Cat the Mouse [21] — The Miser of Takhoma [22] — Little Sister Kindness and the Loving Stitches [23] — The Queen’s Necklace [24] — Robin Hood and Sir Richard-at-the-Lee [25] — How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men [26] — King Midas’ Ears [27] — Hold Fast, Tom [28] — Nils and the Bear [29] — Jericho Bob [30] — Jerusalem Artie’s Christmas Dinner [31] — Robin’s Christmas [32] — A Tale of the Christ Child [33] — Story of the Ark [34] — The Flood [35] — The Olive Leaf [36] — The Rainbow of Promise [37] — The Story of David [38] — The Twenty-third Psalm — FOOTNOTES
19. 19.INDEX OF SELECTED STORIES
20. 20.TOPICAL INDEX OF STORIES
21. 21.BOOKS FOR THE STORY-TELLER — MELODIES AND FOLK TALES — ETHICAL STORIES — NATURE STORIES — TRUE HERO STORIES — FAIRY TALES AND FOLK LORE — HISTORY AND LEGEND — MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES — NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES

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