Books with title Tell Me a Story

The children sat round me in the gloaming. There were several of them; from Madge, dear Madge with her thick fair hair and soft kind grey eyes, down to pretty little Sybil—Gipsy, we called her for fun,—whom you would hardly have guessed, from her brown face and bright dark eyes, to be Madge’s “own cousin.” They were mostly girls, the big ones at least, which is what one would expect, for it is not often that big boys care much about sitting still, and even less about anything so sentimental as sitting still in the twilight doing nothing. There were two or three little boys however, nice round-faced little fellows, who had not yet begun to look down upon “girls,” and were very much honoured at being admitted to a good game of romps with Madge and her troop. It was one of these—the rosiest and nicest of them all, little Ted—who pulled my dress and whispered, but loud enough for every one to hear, with his coaxingest voice—“Tell me a story, aunty.” And then it came all round in a regular buzz, in every voice, repeated again and again—“O aunty! do; dear, dear aunty, tell us a story.”

Excerpt from Tell Me a StoryI had been knitting, but it had grown too dark even for that. I could not pretend to be busy. What could I say? I held up my hands in despair.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.

(Little stories as written by our mother.)Emily was awakened by a loud clap of thunder. She saw the lightning flashacross the sky. She trembled and stayed close to her mother.Marie took a step, and her legs sank their full length into the snow.I just don’t understand parents.They enjoyed yummy kitchen smells and strung cranberries and popcornfor the tree.

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'Tell Me a Story' opens with a child on the lap of a lady, asking her to tell him a story- any story, any kind. Then the child goes on to tell the lady what kind of stories he likes, to make suggestions about stories the lady might tell and to ask questions about what the story might be. Some verses are: // Please tell me a story, any story, any kind. I love them all, I think you will find. / "Once upon a time," Could be how it starts and end with, "The End," and have all middle parts. / I like them all, both short and long. You can just say the words or sing me a song. / Say it or sing it, I'll listen either way. It can come from a book or how 'bout a play? / Long as a movie or a short nursery rhyme, I'll stay here and listen. I have the time. / So, can you think about what you could tell?I like true stories and made-up ones as well. / So, will it have animals? How about a pig? Or maybe an ant who wants to be big. / Or could it have a bug or a lake or buildings or rockets or just one snowflake? / Will it be about trains or a fish in a brook or a champion horse or a bank-robbing crook? / OK, I'm ready to hear your story, but, I'm kind of now wishing it isn't too gory. / I like stories about candy and ones that tell how to bake cookies because I'm sure hungry right now. / Gosh, I love stories. I can hardly wait for the tale you have chosen and to me, you'll relate. / Will this story be sad? I need to know. Should I get out my hanky for my nose to blow? / Will it make me laugh or maybe just giggle? Is it about worms and things that wiggle? // And this story continues. Will she get to tell HER story???

Tell Me a Story helps practitioners to build progression into a favourite part of the day for all children. Matched to the development stages of the EYFS. Each page features 'activity boxes' labelled for each age group showing how each area can be approached by children at different stages of development. The format makes it easy to select the level of activity appropriate for each child making these books ideal for groups of mixed ages. When returning to the same areas later the user can choose another activity to support progression and extend learning.