HOW TO TELL STORIES
TO CHILDREN
AND SOME STORIES TO TELL
BY
SARA CONE BRYANT
LONDON
GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD.
2 & 3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.
1918
Books for Story-Tellers
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
How to Tell Stories to Children
And Some Stories to Tell. By SARA CONE BRYANT. Tenth Impression.
Stories to Tell to Children
With Fifty-Three Stories to Tell. By SARA CONE BRYANT. Seventh Impression.
The Book of Stories for the Story-Teller
By FANNY COE. Fourth Impression.
Songs and Stories for the Little Ones
By E. GORDON BROWNE, M.A. With Melodies chosen and arranged by EVA BROWNE.
New and Enlarged Edition.
Character Training
A Graded Series of Lessons in Ethics, largely through Story-telling.
By E.L. CABOT and E. EYLES. Third Impression. 384 pages.
Stories for the Story Hour
From January to December. By ADA M. MARZIALS. Second Impression.
Stories for the History Hour
From Augustus to Rolf. By NANNIE NIEMEYER. Second Impression.
Stories for the Bible Hour
By R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON, B.A.
Nature Stories to Tell to Children
By H. WADDINGHAM SEERS.
MISS MAUD LINDSAY'S POPULAR BOOKS
Mother Stories
With 16 Line Illustrations.
More Mother Stories
With 20 Line Illustrations.
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
GREAT BRITAIN
To My Mother
THE FIRST, BEST STORY-TELLER
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS
DEDICATED
PREFACE
The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part those which I have found to be best liked by the children to whom I have told these and others. I have tried to reproduce the form in which I actually tell them,—although that inevitably varies with every repetition,—feeling that it would be of greater value to another story-teller than a more closely literary form.
For the same reason, I have confined my statements of theory as to method, to those which reflect my own experience; my "rules" were drawn from introspection and retrospection, at the urging of others, long after the instinctive method they exemplify had become habitual.
These facts are the basis of my hope that the book may be of use to those who ha