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Title: Tell Me Another Story
The Book of Story Programs

Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Release Date: October 29, 2006 [EBook #19661]

Language: English

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TELL ME
ANOTHER STORY

_THE BOOK OF STORY PROGRAMS_

BY

CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY

1918
MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO

COPYRIGHT, 1918,
BY MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

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Preface

The reward of the story-teller who has successfully met the child's
story interest is the plea embodied in the title of this book: "Tell
me another story." The book meets this child longing on a psychologic
basis. It consists of groups of stories arranged so that their telling
will result in definite mental growth for children, as well as
satisfied story hunger.

There has been a tendency in the past to group stories in a haphazard
way; there has been no organized plan of selecting stories to precede
and follow one another for the purpose of definite functioning of mind
processes. The effect of one story of distinctly differentiated theme
from one which has just been told is to break continuity of thought.
On the other hand, stories of similar theme, but contrasting form told
in the story-hour have a mental effect of concentration and will
training. This mental growth through stories is the aim of the book.

The instinctive and universal interests of all children form the
th