Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours | Page 7

tell stories.
Coussens. Child's book of stories. Darton. Wonder book of beasts.
Grover. Folk-lore readers, bk. 1. Lansing. Rhymes and stories.
Treadwell. Reading-literature, 1st reader. Valentine. Aunt Louisa's
book of fairy tales. Wiggin and Smith. Tales of laughter.

Compare with The story of three pigs in Baldwin. Fairy stories and
fables. Lang. Green fairy book. Lang. Snow man and other stories.
Summers. Readers, 1st year.
2. The cock and the crested hen.
_Best versions:_ Djurklou. Fairy tales from the Swedish. Wiggin and
Smith. Tales of laughter.
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1. The tar baby. 2. How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox. 3. How
Mr. Rabbit lost his fine bushy tail.
_Best version:_ Harris. Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings.
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1. King of the golden river. Ruskin. King of the golden river.
2. Robert of Lincoln. (Poem by Bryant.) Bryant. Poems. Lovejoy.
Nature in verse for children. Repplier. Book of famous verse. Wiggin
and Smith. Posy ring.
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1. Little Snow-white.
_Best version_: Grimm. Household stories; tr. by Crane.
_Other versions_: Lang. Red fairy book. Mabie. Fairy tales every child
should know Mulock. Fairy book. Tappan. Folk stories and fables.
Valentine. Old, old fairy tales. (Snowdrop.)
2. Three wishes.
_Best versions_: Jacobs. More English fairy tales. Laboulaye. Last
fairy tales.

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1. Wild swans.
_Best versions_: Andersen. Fairy tales. Andersen. Wonder stories.
_Other versions_: Asbjoernsen. Norse fairy tales. (Twelve wild ducks.)
Grimm. Household stories; tr. by Crane. (Six swans.) Jerrold. Reign of
King Oberon. Thomsen. East o' the sun. (Twelve wild ducks.) Wiggin
and Smith. Fairy ring.
2. Boots and his brothers.
_Best versions_: Asbjoernsen. Norse fairy tales. (Jack and his brothers.)
Thomsen. East o' the sun.
_Other versions:_ Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. (Peter,
Paul and Espen.) Laboulaye. Fairy tales. Laboulaye. Last fairy tales.
Tappan. Folk stories and fables.
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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. Lagerlöf. 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.
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