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Title: A Kindergarten Story Book

Author: Jane L. Hoxie

Release Date: November 22, 2004 [EBook #14127]

Language: English

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A KINDERGARTEN STORY BOOK

By JANE L. HOXIE

TENTH EDITION

PUBLISHED BY

MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA

ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO

1916

COPYRIGHT, 1966

BY MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

TO MY FATHER

whose evening story-hour
is the happiest memory of my childhood
this little volume
is affectionately inscribed

INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

A number of the stories in this little book have been told to thousands
of children in the kindergartens of Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia,
Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg, and other cities. The delight with
which they have everywhere been listened to is an assurance of their
appeal to child thought and sympathy. I know no equally simple,
varied, and interesting collection of stories for children between the
ages of four and six; and I earnestly hope that A KINDERGARTEN STORY
BOOK may rapidly win the popularity it merits.

SUSAN E. BLOW.

PREFACE.

It is the author's aim in this collection to furnish stories for the
child that shall be short, simple in form and familiar in subject, that
shall contain much repetition, rhythm, dramatic possibility,
alliteration, and also onomatopoetical and imaginative qualities, all
of which the young child craves in the literature which is presented to
him. The writer has striven to avoid elaborate introductions, long and
intricate descriptions, and all those characteristics from which the
child instinctively turns.

The matter here presented naturally falls under three heads: first,
original stories; secondly, favorite childhood stories rewritten;
thirdly, adaptations of popular tales.

Nearly all of the purely original stories are based upon some of the
more vital motifs to be found in the best o