Books with title The Story-Telling Hour

Creation and death, the wily trickster, wolves, magic, and passion -- these are part of a rich heritage of Native American mythology and folktales. From tribes that vanished long ago, as well as from great tribes like the Ojibwa and Zuni that proudly remain, here are the powerful ancient beliefs with which North American tribal societies bring order to the universe and understanding to the heart.Editor Susan Feldmann has assembled this introductory anthology of oral literature around themes that allow comparison of the many ways different tribes explained similar concepts. The result is a magnificent journey into the Native American cosmos and a chance for us to experience everything from the beginning of time to the passage through death with the first people of our land.

Excerpt from Story-Telling in the Home"World-old and beautiful stories,Which I once, when little,From the neighbor's children have heardWhen we, on summer evenings,Sat on the steps before the house - door,Bending us down to the quiet narrativeWith little listening hearts." - Heinrich Heine.The Value of Story-telling - Stories that Children Like - How to Tell Stories to Children - Continued Stories - The Relation of Stories to Play - How to Tell Bible Stories - Story-Telling Devices - Where to Find Stories - Stories in the Home - References.The Value of Story-Telling.Of late we have come to take story-telling seriously. It is one of the oldest of arts and one of the most valuable."Everything argues," says Dr. Richard M. Hodge, "that the story is par excellence the language of childhood. Children love a story as they do no other form of address. It is their most characteristic form of expression and our most direct and successful means of conveying to them our ideas. Stories are pictures of life and moving-pictures, talking pictures, colored pictures, at that. Their meaning lies on the surface. They reveal every phase and principle of life. The ideas expressed are charged with emotion and consequently affect the will. Stories have plots and plots are Providences. When angels or fairies figure in a plot they are ministers of justice. Stories leave nothing to explain. Aspirations and conduct portrayed in them do not have to be applied to the lives of the hearers. The story no less than the drama holds the mirror up to nature, and the hearer is 'as one who beholds his natural face in a glass.'"Story-telling has its physical value. At the end of the day in the home, or in the midst of commotion in the school, it calms the mind, rests the perturbed spirit, and even helps to prepare the body either for sleep or for renewed activity.It is the most concrete method of teaching and the most inter…

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