World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls

World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls - One Hundred and Eighty-seven Five-minute Classic Stories for Retelling in Home, Sunday School, Children's Services, Public School Grades and "The Story-hour" in Public Libraries

This book is intended chiefly for the home. It is an aid to parents in introducing their children to some of the best stories in the world. It will be of obvious value also to Sunday-school teachers, ministers who preach to children, public-school teachers, kindergartners, librarians, and to all who perceive that the story method is the golden method of teaching. Where can I find suitable stories to tell? is a frequent question asked by lovers of children who take seriously their cry of soul-hunger, Tell me a story! Oral story-telling within recent years has had a remarkable revival, and a response to both the childs and the parents plea has been made in a number of charming collections of childrens stories and manuals on the art of story-telling. But it is well known that books of stories with material in a form readily adapted for telling are very few. Fewer still have attempted to gather into one volume those old favorites which should be the heritage of each succeeding generation of children. True, there are collections in many volumes, such as The Childrens Hour, in ten volumes; the Junior Classics, in ten volumes; and the series, What Every Child Should Know, in twenty volumes; but these, admirable in many respects, are bulky, expensive, and forbidden to all except the favored children of the rich. Mothers frequently ask for something condensed, comprehensive, and simple. It is to meet such a need, often expressed to him, that the author has gathered, during a number of years of experience in moral and religious education, these World Stories for telling to modern boys and girls. Almost all of the many stories in this book he has himself told at various times before differing audiences of children, young people, and adultsaudiences varying from one or two open-eyed listeners in the home, or the little group in the country Sunday-school or wayside schoolhouse, to the large classes and assemblies in high schools, colleges, city libraries, Sunday-schools, churches, and conventions. In many cases children and young people have retold these stories in almost the exact language here given. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 55786
Author: Sly, William James
Release Date: Oct 21, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English