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
Peasant Truth, in Riverside Third Reader; Prometheus, the Giver of Fire
in Coe, First Book of Stories for the Story-Teller; Six Soldiers of
Fortune, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Country Maid and her
Milk-Pail, in Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Flax, in
Andersen, Wonder Stories; The Hammer and the Anvil, in Ramaswami Raju,
Indian Fables; The Honest Woodman, in Poulsson, In the Child's World;
The Little Gray Pony, in Lindsay, Mother Stories; The Little House in
the Wood, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Old Man Who Lived in
a Wood (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Pixy Flower, in Rhys,
Fairy-Gold; The Spandies, in Gilchrist, Helen and the Uninvited Guests,
page 15; The Three Trades, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Toy
of the Giant's Child, von Chamisso (poem), in Story-Telling Poems;
Vegetable Lambs, in Curtis, Story of Cotton; Vulcan the Mighty Smith, in
Poulsson, In the Child's World.
For grades 5-6. A Handful of Clay, in Riverside Sixth Reader; How they
Built the Ship Argo in Iolcos, in Kingsley, Greek Heroes; Icarus and
DEedalus, in Peabody, Old Greek Folk-Stones; Master of All Masters, in
Jacobs, English Fairy Tales; The Dwarf's Gifts, in Brown, In the Days
of Giants; The Forging of Balmung, in Baldwin, Hero Tales; The
Giant Builder, in Brown, In the Days of Giants; The God of Fire, in
Francillon, Gods and Heroes; The Wicked Hornet, in Baldwin, The Sampo;
The Wish-Ring, in Fairy Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; The Wounds of
Labor, in d'Amicis, Heart (Cuore); Weland's Sword, in Kipling, Puck of
Pook's Hill.
For grades 74. Careers of Danger and Daring, Moffett; David Maydole,
Hammer-Maker, in Riverside Seventh Reader; Jack Farley's Flying Switch,
in Warman, Short Rails; Histories of Two Boys, in Riverside Seventh
Reader; History of Labor Day, in Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose); The
Arms of Aeneas, in Church, Stories from Virgil; The Blacksmith Boy and
the Battle, in Marden, Winning Out; The Duke's Armorer, in Stories of
Chivalry Retold from St. Nicholas; The Scullion Boy's Opportunity, in
Marden, Winning Out; The Vision of Anton the Clockmaker, in Dyer, The
Richer Life, Tubal Cain, Mackay (poem), in Story-Telling Poems.
COLUMBUS DAY
For grades 4-8.
Columbus, Miller (poem), in Riverside Seventh Reader; Columbus at the
Convent, Trowbridge (poem), in Stevenson, Poems of American History;
Guanahani, in Maores, Christopher Columbus; How Diego Mendez Got Food
for Columbus in Higginson, American Explorers; How Diego Mendez Saved
Columbus, in Higginson, American Explorers; In Search of the Grand
Khan, in Moores, Christopher Columbus; The Garden of Eden, in Moores,
Christopher Columbus.
HALLOWEEN
For grades 1-4.
The Smith and the Fairies, in Grierson, Children's Book of Celtic
Stories; The Witch, in Lang, Yellow Fairy Book; The Witch That was a
Hare, in Rhys, English Fairy Book; Tom-Tit Tot (Rumpelstiltskin), in
Jacobs, English Fairy Tales.
For grades 5-6.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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