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Title: Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours

Author: Various

Editor: Effie L. Power

Release Date: December 2, 2005 [EBook #17202]

Language: English

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Lists of Stories and
Programs for Story Hours

Compiled by

The Staff of The Children's Department
St. Louis Public Library

and edited by

EFFIE L. POWER

Revised Edition

NEW YORK
1921

FOREWORD

This story-hour material was first published in the Monthly Bulletin of
the St. Louis Public Library in 1914 and was later reprinted in pamphlet
form. It has been slightly revised for the present edition but the form
and viewpoint has not been changed and most of the notes remain as
originally written for the St. Louis Public Library Staff.

The editor has made no attempt to compile a complete handbook on
story-telling but has merely brought together in uniform printed form,
story lists and programs for story hours as they have been used to meet
the needs in the various divisions of the Children's Department of the
St. Louis Public Library. No claim is made to originality, but the
editor assumes all responsibility for the form and standard of the lists
as here presented.

The aim has been to keep the lists brief and to give short, practical
outlines which may be extended.

Since library story-telling is directed primarily toward inspirational
reading, the selections listed are chiefly from literary sources. A
wealth of material in the form of biography and history has not been
included, because books in those classes have been fully indexed by
subject in the library catalogues. For example: a list of Christm