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Title: How to Tell Stories to Children
And Some Stories to Tell

Author: Sara Cone Bryant

Release Date: February 18, 2005 [EBook #474]

Language: English

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HOW TO TELL STORIES
TO CHILDREN

AND SOME STORIES TO TELL

BY
SARA CONE BRYANT

[Illustration]

LONDON

GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD.

2 & 3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.

1918

=Books for Story-Tellers=

_UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME_

=How to Tell Stories to Children=
And Some Stories to Tell. By SARA CONE BRYANT. Tenth Impression.

=Stories to Tell to Children=
With Fifty-Three Stories to Tell. By SARA CONE BRYANT. Seventh Impression.

=The Book of Stories for the Story-Teller=
By FANNY COE. Fourth Impression.

=Songs and Stories for the Little Ones=
By E. GORDON BROWNE, M.A. With Melodies chosen and arranged by EVA BROWNE.
New and Enlarged Edition.

=Character Training=
A Graded Series of Lessons in Ethics, largely through Story-telling.
By E.L. CABOT and E. EYLES. Third Impression. 384 pages.

=Stories for the Story Hour=
From January to December. By ADA M. MARZIALS. Second Impression.

=Stories for the History Hour=
From Augustus to Rolf. By NANNIE NIEMEYER. Second Impression.

=Stories for the Bible Hour=
By R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON, B.A.

=Nature Stories to Tell to Children=
By H. WADDINGHAM SEERS.

* * * * *

MISS MAUD LINDSAY'S POPULAR BOOKS

=Mother Stories=
With 16 Line Illustrations.

=More Mother Stories=
With 20 Line Illustrations.

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
GREAT BRITAIN

_To My Mother_

THE FIRST, BEST STORY-TELLER
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS
DEDICATED

PREFACE

The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part
those which I have found to be best liked by the children to whom