CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Apperceptive Basis of Story Telling 1
II. The Story with a Sense Appeal 23
III. When the Curtain Rises 41
IV. Using Suspense to Develop Concentration 57
V. Story Climax 83
VI. Training a Child’s Memory by Means of a Story 105
VII. The Instinct Story 122
VIII. The Dramatic Story 142
IX. Story Telling an Aid to Verbal Expression 171
X. Stimulating the Emotions by Means of a Story 191
XI. Imagination and the Fairy Story 212
XII. Making Over Stories 231
XIII. Planning Story Groups 245
 
 STORIES FOR TELLING
The Cap that Mother Made, adapted from Swedish Fairy Tales 8
Goody Two Shoes 16
The Three Cakes, from Monsieur Berquin’s L’Ami des Enfants 35
The Prince’s Visit, Horace E. Scudder 52
The Travels of a Fox, Clifton Johnson 60
Little Lorna Doone, adapted from Richard Blackmore 68
Little In-a-Minute 76
Old Man Rabbit’s Thanksgiving Dinner 92
The Great Stone Face, adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne 98
Little Tuk, Hans Christian Andersen 115
The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde 133
The Gingerbread Boy (dramatized), Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 153
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (dramatized), Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 163
The Woodpecker Who Was Selfish, adapted from an Indian Folk Tale 181
The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings, adapted from a Southern Folk Tale 185
The Little Lame Prince, adapted from Miss Mulock 201
The Blue Robin, Mary Wilkins Freeman 219
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, Hans Christian Andersen 238