Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours | Page 7

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1. Tom Hickathrift.
_Best versions:_ Jacobs. More English fairy tales. Rhys. English fairy book.
2. Diana; and the story of Orion.
_Best version:_ Francillon. Gods and heroes.
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1. The fisherman and his wife.
_Best version:_ Grimm. Household stories; tr. by Crane.
_Other versions:_ Baldwin. Fairy stories and fables. Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas. Lang. Green fairy book. Scudder. Children's book.
2. The Banyan deer.
_Best version:_ Jatakas. Jataka tales; Babbitt.
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1. Fisherman and the genii.
_Best version:_ Arabian nights; ed. by Wiggin and Smith.
_Other versions:_ Fairy tales from the Arabian nights; ed. by Dixon. Arabian nights; ed. by Lang. Arabian nights; ed. by Olcott.
2. The Lady of Shalott. (Poem by Tennyson.) Tennyson. Poems. Couch. Oxford book of English verse. Wiggin and Smith. Golden numbers.
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1. Whittington and his cat.
_Best version:_ Jacobs. English fairy tales.
_Other versions:_ Baldwin. Fifty famous stories retold. Lang. History of Whittington. Norton. Heart of oak books, v. 2. Scudder. The book of fables and folk stories
2. Orpheus and Eurydice.
_Best version:_ Francillon. Gods and heroes.
_Other versions:_ Carpenter. Hellenic tales. Firth. Stories of old Greece.
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1. Adventures of Nils. Lagerl?f. Wonderful adventures of Nils.
Outline: The elf--The wild geese--Glimminge Castle (cut)--The rat charmer--The great crane dance--on Kullaberg--Ulvasa--Lady.
Do not tell a second story.
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1. Persephone.
_Best versions:_ Adams. Myths of old Greece. (Proserpina.) Hawthorne. Tanglewood tales. (Pomegranate seeds.)
_Other versions:_ Burt. Herakles, the hero of Thebes. Cooke. Nature myths. Cox. Tales of ancient Greece. Francillon. Gods and heroes. Mabie. Myths every child should know. (Hawthorne version.)
2. How the leaves came down. (Poem by Coolidge.) Lovejoy. Nature in verse for children. Skinner. Arbor Day manual. Wiggin and Smith. Posy ring.
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1. Hansel and Grethel.
_Best versions:_ Grimm. Household stories; tr. by Crane. Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas. Lang. Blue fairy book.
_Other versions:_ Jerrold. Reign of King Oberon. Mabie. Fairy tales every child should know. Tappan. Folk stories and fables.
2. Quick running squash. Aspinwall. Short stories for short people.
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1. Peterkin and the little grey hare.
_Best version:_ Pyle. Wonder clock.
2. Mirror of Matsuyama.
_Best versions:_ Williston. Japanese fairy tales. 1st ser. Wiggin and Smith. Magic casements
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1. The reformed pirate. Stockton. Floating prince.
2. How the camel got his hump.[7]
3. The camel's hump. (Poem.) Kipling. Just so stories. Kipling reader for elementary grades.
[Footnote 7: For source, see page number preceding title in index.]

STORIES FOR SPECIAL DAYS; CHIEFLY FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
CHRISTMAS STORIES
For poems see Granger. Index to poetry and recitations: Appendix.
_Birth of Christ._
The Bible. St. Matthew, Chap. 2. St. Luke, Chap. 2. See also adaptations in collections of Bible Stories.
_Christ Legends._
Babouscka. Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour, p. 235 Dickinson and Skinner. Children's book of Christmas stories, p. 208. Dier. Children's book of Christmas, p. 105.
Coming of the prince. Field. Little book of profitable tales, p. 31.
Herman's treasure box. Broadus. Book of the Christ child, p. 77.
Legend of St. Christopher. Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour, p. 233. Broadus. Book of the Christ child, p. 145. Chenoweth. Stories of the saints, p. 101. Olcott. Good stories for great holidays, p. 305. Smith and Hazeltine. Christmas in legend and story, p. 103. St. Nicholas, v. 3, p. 137. Scudder. Book of legends, p. 31.
Legend of the Christ child. Dickinson. Children's book of Christmas stories, p. 96. Harrison, Christmas-tide, p. 237.
Little friend. Brown. Flower princess, p. 45.
Story of the other wise man. Van Dyke.
Where love is, God is. Tolstoi.
_Stories._
Bird's Christmas Carol. Wiggin.
Captured Santa Claus. Page.
Christmas before last. Stockton. Bee-man of Orn and other tales, p. 87.
Christmas cake. Lindsay. More mother stories, p. 165.
Christmas cuckoo. Browne. Granny's wonderful chair, p. 17.
Christmas dream. Alcott. Lulu's library, v. 1, p. 7.
Christmas every day. Howells. Christmas every day; and other stories.
Christmas in the barn. Dickinson, Children's book of Christmas stories, p. 211. Poulsson. In the child's world, p. 119.
Christmas masquerade. Dickinson. Children's book of Christmas stories, p. 19. Wilkins. Pot of gold, p. 115.
Christmas truants. Stockton. Clocks of Rondaine, p. 75. Stockton. Fanciful tales, p. 108.
Christmas turkey and how it came. Alcott. Lulu's library, v. 3, p. 22.
Christmas under the snow. Dickinson. Children's book of Christmas stories, p. 261. Miller. Kristy's queer Christmas, p. 67.
Clocks of Rondaine. Stockton. Clocks of Rondaine, p. 1. Stockton. Fanciful tales, p. 52.
Dog of Flanders. Ouida.
Felix. Stein. Troubadour tales, p. 132.
Fir-tree. Andersen. Wonder stories, p. 46. Bryant. Best stories to tell to children, p. 134. Dickinson. Children's book of Christmas stories, p. 6. Lang. Pink fairy book, p. 102, Lansing. Fairy tales, v. 2, p. 41. Schauffler. Christmas, p. 241. Scudder. Children's book, p. 167.
First Christmas tree. Van Dyke.
First Christmas tree in New England. Colonial stories retold from St. Nicholas, p. 62.
Golden cobwebs. Bryant. Best stories to tell to children, p. 22. Bryant. How to tell stories to children, p. 133. Dickinson. Children's book of Christmas stories, p. 193. Schauffler.