How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell

A practical handbook that explains the art of oral storytelling for children, contrasting telling with reading and outlining the purposes and advantages of narrative work in school; it gives guidance on selecting, adapting, and shortening tales for different primary grades, and on mastering mood, voice, arrangement of listeners, and psychological principles of delivery; it describes classroom uses including retelling exercises, seat-work illustrations, and dramatic games; finally, it collects many adapted nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and graded stories arranged for kindergarten through upper primary, and supplies brief lists of further sources for story-tellers.