THE ART OF STORY-TELLING
THE ART OF
STORY-TELLING
With Nearly Half a Hundred Stories
BY
JULIA DARROW COWLES
Author of “Stories to Tell”
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1914
Copyright by
Julia Darrow Cowles
1914
Published March, 1914
W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO
PREFACE
In preparing this book the author hassought to awaken a keener perception anda higher appreciation of the artistic andethical value of story-telling; to simplifysome of its problems; to emphasize the truedelight which the story-teller may share withher hearers; and to present fresh materialwhich answers to the test of being good insubstance as well as in literary form.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to MissMabel Bartleson, children’s librarian, and toMiss Ida May Ferguson, of the children’sdepartment of the Minneapolis PublicLibrary, for their thoughtful assistance, andto the authors and publishers of copyrightedstories included in this volume, for their generousaid. Specific credit is given inconnection with each story.
J. D. C.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| PART I | ||
| I. | Story-Telling in the Home | 1 |
| II. | Why Tell Stories in School? | 16 |
| III. | How to Choose Stories for Telling | 22 |
| IV. | The Telling of the Story | 32 |
| V. | Use of the Story in Primary Grades | 41 |
| VI. | Jingles, Fables, and Folk-Lore | 52 |
| VII. | Myth and Hero Tale | 67 |
| VIII. | Holiday and Vacation Stories | 84 |
| IX. | Bible Stories | 89 |
| X. | Systematic Story-Telling | 94 |
| XI. | The Joy of Story-Telling | 10 ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |