Stories to tell to children : fifty one stories with some suggestions for telling / by Sara Cone Bryant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Sara Cone, 1873-1956, author.

Contributor:

Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories.

Genre:

Short stories

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlvii, [1], 243, [1] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge : The Riverside Press.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1907]

Contents:

Some suggestions for the story-teller

Story-telling in teaching English

Stories to tell to children: Two little riddles in rhyme ; The little pink rose ; The cock-a-doodle-doo ; The cloud ; The little red hen ; The gingerbread man ; The little jackals and the lion ; The country mouse and the city mouse ; Little Jack Rollaround ; How Brother Rabbit fooled the whale and the elephant ; The little half-chick ; The lambikin ; The blackberry-bush ; The fairies ; The adventures of the little field mouse ; Another little red hen ; The story of the little rid hin ; The story of Epaminondas and his auntie ; The boy who cried "Wolf!" ; The frog king ; The sun and the wind ; The little jackal and the alligator ; The larks in the cornfield ; A true story about a little girl (Louisa Alcott) ; My kingdom ; Piccola ; The little fir tree ; How Moses was saved ; The ten fairies ; The elves and the shoemaker ; Who killed the otter's babies? ; Early ; The Brahmin, the tiger, and the jackal ; The little jackal and the camel ; The gulls of Salt Lake ; The nightingale ; Margery's garden ; The little cotyledons ; The talkative tortoise ; Robert of Sicily ; The jealous courtiers ; Prince Cherry ; The gold in the orchard ; Margaret of New Orleans ; The dagda's harp ; The tailor and the three beasts ; The castle of fortune ; David and Goliath ; The shepherd's song ; The hidden servants.

Notes:

Front cover stamped in red and black with vignette.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy has manuscript notes in pencil on page xxvii and [xxviii]; manuscript in pencil on page [xlviii].

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has partially illegible autograph ("Eleanor Engli[...]") on front pastedown, page xv, and verso of back free endpaper; autograph ("Eleanor") on back pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has manuscript inscriptions ("Mary Z") on pastedowns, front free endpaper, page [iii], and verso of back free endpaper..

Schimmel Collection copy: title leaf mutilated with damage to subtitle and statement of responsibility and loss of imprint on recto and damage to copyright statement on verso.

OCLC:

1401396