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How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell
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Title: How to Tell Stories to Children And Some Stories to Tell
Author: Sara Cone Bryant
Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #474]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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HOW TO TELL STORIES TO CHILDREN AND SOME STORIES TO TELL
BY SARA CONE BRYANT
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 urgin