Books with author Sara Cone Bryant

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Excerpt from Epaminondas and His AuntieOne day she gave him a big piece of cake; nice, yellow, rich - gold cake.Epaminondas took it in his fist and held it all scrunched up tight, and came along home. By the time he got home there wasn't anything left but a fistful of crumbs. His Mammy said'what you got there, Epaminondas?' 'cake, Mammy,' said epaminondas.'cake!' said his Mammy. 'epaminondas, you ain't got the sense you was born with! That's no way to carry cake. The way to carry cake is to wrap it all up nice in some leaves and put it in your hat, and put your hat on your head, and come along home. You hear me, Epamlnondas?'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Telling a story well is more than reading aloud it s a skilled art that changes bored, fidgety listeners into enthralled ones. Here Sara Cone Bryant, beloved children s author from the early 20th century, shows you how to use storytelling to recapture the pleasures of a simpler age. In a few clear, concise lessons, she shows you the key do s and don ts of selecting, adapting, and voicing stories for your kids maximum enjoyment and edification. You ll learn to identify stories that lend themselves to telling aloud and to incorporate into your own stories elements that grab and hold children s attention. And you ll learn how to adapt each tale to the length, language, and content that makes it right for your kids in particular. As a bonus, How to Tell Stories to Children includes some of the author s favorite and most tellable short stories and poems. You ll be able to begin practicing right away the rare and valuable art of storytelling!

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ForewordThis little book is the outgrowth of a custom in my house, known to the children as " Telling the Rabbit Story."Ever since my little girl and boy were born, I have been in the habit of singing them rhymes or telling them stories every day, a while before sleepy-time. One of the earliest connected stories they ever heard was Beatrix Potter's exquisite little tale, " Peter Rabbit." They were very fond of this, and were much attracted by the name and the pictures of Peter himself. So it happened that they asked for more adventures of Peter Rabbit, and I fell into the way of introducing the little hero into many of my inventions, until at last no story was complete if it did not begin: " Once when Peter Rabbit was — "For two years the story hour at my house was always called the " Rabbitstory." "Mother, will you be home for the ' Rabbit story' ? " the children used to say, when I went out.Gradually other loves have taken their place in the home-story world, and I have told my boy and girl many tales of many kinds, true, fairy, and "foolish," as they call humorous stories, but they still love the one that begins with " Peter Rabbit."Once in a while, in the long series of days, some happy inspiration has given me a better thought than usual, and a real story has popped out of my mouth in place of the mediocre inventions of habit. These few real stories have been retold " by request" of the original audience, and told again to larger audiences many times. It has seemed to me that the best of them might prove of value to other teachers and mothers of very little children, for the demand is continuous, and the supply of material suitable for such tiny hearers is exceedingly small.A few of these stones are my own adaptations from old or foreign tales, as the reader will note in the following pages. But the larger number are entirely original, and grew spontaneously out of the mood of the hour.I do not claim any wonderful qualities for the little stories so made and gathered. Very young children have liked them, and I have been willing that my own very young children should hear them. The latter is an acid test which has counted out many a famous old story, and the former disposes of all too many modern ones. So I hope that these may prove useful to grown-up friends and joyous to little boys and girls.--AcknowledgmentsFor the Swabian verses I have to thank my husband, who heard the originals in childhood from his grandfather. The first telling of "The Little White Boat" and the inspiration for a number of other stories came from the same interested source.The spirit and outline of the two apple stories I owe to Mr. James H. Bowditch, the noted landscape architect. While I was very ill he told the little adventures to my husband, to tell to me, for the whiling away of a heavy time; and I have made them into stories with his consent. I regret that I cannot fully transmit in them the rare savor of gentle humor and kindly philosophy that Mr. Bowditch's personality infused into the original.The Scotch rhymes with their music were taught my children by Miss Jessie Blaine, their kindest of nurses, and a shining example of the national strength and wholesomeness of character. She learned the funny bits literally at her mother's knee, and in passing them on to my children, used the quaint steps and gestures which had come to hers from a still earlier mother. The rhymes are undoubtedly only fragments, but even as such seem to have a perennial charm for the " littlest ones."--

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