Good Stories for Great Holidays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own ReadingOlcott, Frances Jenkins
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Good Stories for Great Holidays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading
Olcott, Frances Jenkins
Children's literature; Holidays; Short stories; Storytelling
A Sunday Valentine, in White, When Molly was Six; Beauty and the Beast,
in Lang, Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, in Lang,
Blue Fairy Book; The Fair One With Golden Locks, in Scudder, Children's
Book; The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, in Scudder, Children's Book; The
Valentine (poem), in Brown, Fresh Posies.
For grades 5-6.
Gracieuse and Percinet, in D'Aulnoy, Fairy Tales; Jorinda and Joringel,
in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Day-Dream, Tennyson (poem),
in Story-Telling Poems; The Singing, Soaring Lark, in Grimm, German
Household Tales William and the Werewolf, in Darton, Wonder Book of Old
Romance.
For grades 7-8.
As You Like It, Shakespeare; Brunhild, in Baldwin, Story of Siegfried;
Floris and Blanchefleur, in Darton, Wonder Book of Old Romance; Palamon
and Arcita, in Darton, Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims; The Fair Maid
of Perth, Scott, chapters 2-6; The Singing Leaves, Lowell (poem); The
Tempest, Shakespeare.
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
For grades 1-4.
Little George Washington, and Great George Washington, in Wiggin and
Smith, Story Hour; The Virginia Boy, in Wilson, Nature Study, Second
Reader.
For grades 54.
A Christmas Surprise, in Tappan, American Hero Stories Dolly Madison,
in Tappan, American Hero Stories; Going to Sea, in Scudder, George
Washington, page 33; How George Washington was Made Commander-in-Chief,
in Tomlinson, War for Independence; The Home of Washington, and The
Appearance of the Enemy, in Madison, Peggy Owen at Yorktown; Young
Washington in the Woods, in Eggleston, Strange Stories from History.
For grades 7-8.
Anecdotes and Stories, in Schauffler, Washington's Birthday; He Resigns
his Commission, in Lodge, George Washington, vol. I, page 338; The
British at Mount Vernon, in Lodge, George Washington, vol. I, page 295;
The Young Surveyor, in Scudder, George Washington; Washington Offered
the Supreme Power, in Lodge, George Washington, vol. I, page 328;
Washington's Farewell to His Officers, in Lodge, George Washington, vol.
I, page 387.
RESURRECTION DAY (EASTER)
For grades 1-4.
Easter Eggs, von Schmid; The Boy Who Discovered the Spring, in Alden,
Why the Chimes Rang; Herr Oster Hase, in Bailey and Lewis, For
the Children's Hour; The Legend of Easter Eggs, O'Brien (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Rabbit's Ransom, Vawter; The White Hare, in
Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose).
For grades 5-8.
Easter, Gilder (poem); The General's Easter Box, in Our Holidays
Retold from St. Nicholas; The Trinity Flower, Ewing; What Easter is, in
Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose).
MAY DAY
For grades 1-4.
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