Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours | Page 2

Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable. (Chicken Little.) Darton. Wonder book of beasts. Lansing. Rhymes and stories. Norton. Heart of oak books, v. I. Scudder. Book of folk stories. Scudder. Children's book. Tappan. Folk stories and fables.
Peter Rabbit. Potter.
The gingerbread man.[1]
Three little pigs.[1]
The pancake.[1]
Three goats. Poulsson. Through the farmyard gate.
[Footnote 1: For source, see page number preceding title in index.]
Golden cobwebs.
_Best versions_: Bryant. Best stories to tell. Bryant. How to tell stories.
Little Black Sambo. Bannerman.
The cock, the mouse and the little red hen.[2] Lefevre.
How Jack went to seek his fortune.
_Best version_: Jacobs. English fairy tales.
Three Billy Goats Gruff.[2]
The travels of a fox.[2]
The elves and the shoemaker.
_Best versions_: Grimm. Fairy tales; ed. by Lucas. Scudder. Fables and folk stories.
_Other versions_: Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour Bryant. Stories to tell. Norton. Heart of oak books, v. I. Scudder. Book of folk stories. Scudder. Children's book.
The cat and the mouse.
_Best version_: Jacobs. English fairy tales.
_Other versions_: Arnold and Gilbert. Stepping stones to literature, v. i. Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. Darton. Wonder book of beasts.
[Footnote 2: For source, see page number preceding title in index.]

STORIES FOR CHILDREN FIVE AND SIX YEARS OLD.
As I walked over the hills one day. (Poem by Mrs. Carter.)
_Best versions:_ Chisholm. Golden staircase. Wiggin and Smith. Pinafore Palace.
Bremen town musicians.
_Best versions:_ Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas. Scudder. Fables and folk stories.
Dame Wiggin of Lee and her seven wonderful cats.
_Best versions:_ Dame Wiggin of Lee and seven wonderful cats. Norton. Heart of oak books, v. 2. O'Shea. Six nursery classics.
Doll in the grass.
_Best versions:_ Asbjoernsen. Fairy tales from the far north. Wiggin and Smith. Fairy ring.
Epaminondas.
_Best versions:_ Bryant. Stories to tell to children. Bryant. Best stories to tell.
The Hobyahs.
_Best version:_ Jacobs. More English fairy tales.
The Half Chick or Medio Pollito.[3]
How the camel got his hump. Kipling. Just so stories.
[Footnote 3: For source, see page number preceding title in index.]
Johnny cake or Wee bannock[1].
The Jumblies. (Poem by Lear.) Lear. Nonsense Songs.
Lambikin.
_Best version:_ Jacobs. Indian fairy tales.
_Other versions:_ Bryant. Stories to tell. Steel. Tales of the Punjab.
Little grey pony. Lindsay. Mother stories.
Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes[4].
Little red hen and the grain of wheat.
_Best version:_ Bryant. Stories to tell.
_Other versions:_ Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable.
Mother Hulda or Mother Holle.
_Best version:_ Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas.
_Other versions:_ Blaisdell. Child life in many lands. Lang. Red fairy book.
Night before Christmas. (Poem by Clement C. Moore.) Moore. Night before Christmas; il. by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Moore. Night before Christmas (linen picture book).
[Footnote 4: For source, see page number in bold face type in index.]
Ole Shut-Eye stories.
_Best versions:_ Andersen. Wonder stories. Andersen. Fairy tales.
Peter Rabbit plays a joke. Burgess. Old Mother West Wind.
Quick running squash. Aspinwall. Short stories for short people.
Rat princess. Bryant. How to tell stories.
The sheep and the pig who set up house-keeping.
_Best version:_ Thomsen. East o' the sun.
_Other versions:_ Asbjoernsen. Fairy tales from the far north. (Ram and the pig.) Asbjoernsen. Tales from the fjeld. Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. (Adapted.) Wiggin and Smith. Fairy ring.
Snow White and Rose Red.[5]
Spotty the turtle wins a race. Burgess. Old Mother West Wind.
Stolen charm.
_Best version:_ Williston. Japanese fairy tales. 1st series.
The straw, the coal and the bean.
_Best version:_ Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas.
[Footnote 5: For source, see page number preceding title in index.]
_Other versions:_ Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. (Why the bean wears a stripe.) Blaisdell. Child life in many lands. Strong. All the year round; Spring.
The sun and the wind.
_Best version:_ Aesop. Fables; ed. by Jacobs.
Three bears.[6]
Timothy's shoes. Ewing. Lob-Lie-by-the-fire; and other tales.(To be adapted)
Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.
_Best version:_ Jacobs. English fairy tales.
Tom, the Water baby. Kingsley. Water babies, Ch. 1. (To be adapted.)
Why all men love the moon.
_Best version:_ Holbrook. Book of nature myths.
_Other versions:_ Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable. (Sun, the moon and the wind.) Jacobs. Indian fairy tales. (Sun, moon and wind go to dinner.)
Who stole the bird's nest? (Poem by L.M. Child.)
_Best version:_ Wiggin and Smith. Posy Ring.
_Other versions:_ Lovejoy. Nature in verse. Waterman. Graded memory selections.
[Footnote 6: For source, see page number preceding title in index.]
Why the evergreens never lose their leaves.
_Best version:_ Holbrook. Book of nature myths.
The wise men of Gotham.
_Best version:_ Jacobs. More English fairy tales.
The wolf and the seven little goats.
_Best version:_ Grimm. Household stories tr. by Crane.
_Other versions:_ Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable. (Adapted.) (Wolf and seven little goslings.) Grimm. Fairy tales. (Wolf and the seven young kids.) Mulock. Fairy book. (Wolf and the seven young goslings.)

SUGGESTIONS FOR STORY HOURS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
The following programs for story hours for the little children are suggestive only. It is desirable that the best folk tales be repeated as often as the children desire, and that poems should be read or recited in connection