Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories
by Julia Darrow Cowles
About this book
In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance as well as in literary form. - Summary by From the preface
Chapters (36)
1Story-Telling in the Home
2Why Tell Stories in School?
3How to Choose Stories for Telling
4The Telling of the Story
5Use of the Story in Primary Grades
6Jingles, Fables, and Folk-Lore
7Myth and Hero Tale
8Holiday and Vacation Stories
9Bible Stories
10Systematic Story-Telling
11The Joy of Story-Telling
12Story-Telling as an Art
13Selected Stories to Tell; The Robin’s Carol; The Little Baldhead; Why the Bear Sleeps All Winter; The Little Boy Who Forgot to Wash His Hands
14The Honest Woodman; Tabby and the Mice; The Gold Bugs
15The History of Tip-Top
16The Good King
17The Plowman Who Found Content
18King of the Frogs; The Adder That Did Not Hear
19The North Star; The Cobbler
20Opechee the Robin Redbreast; The Country Cat
21Legend of the Arbutus; Why the Dog Cannot Endure the Cat, Nor the Cat the Mouse
22The Miser of Takhoma
23Little Sister Kindness and the Loving Stitches
24The Queen’s Necklace
25Robin Hood and Sir Richard-at-the-Lee
26How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men
27King Midas’ Ears
28Hold Fast, Tom
29Nils and the Bear
30Jericho Bob
31Jerusalem Artie’s Christmas Dinner
32Robin’s Christmas
33A Tale of the Christ Child
34Story of the Ark; The Flood; The Olive Leaf; The Rainbow of Promise
35The Story of David
36The Twenty-third Psalm
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