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
Mr. Fox, in Jacobs, English Fairy Tales; The Godfather, in Grimm, German
Household Tales; The Golden Arm, in Jacobs, Enylish Fairy Tales; The
Robber Bridegroom, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Story of a Cat,
Bedoliere; The Youth Who Could not Shiver or Shake, in Grimm, German
Household Tales.
For grades 7-8.
Alice Brand, in Scott, Lady of the Lake (poem); All-Hallow-Eve Myths,
in Our Holidays Retold from St. Nicholas; Black Andie's Tale of
Tod Lapraik, in Stevenson, David Balfour; History of Hallowe'en, in
Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose); Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip
Van Winkle Irving; Macbeth, Shakespeare; The Bottle Imp, in Stevenson,
Island Nights' Entertainments; The Devil and Tom Walker, Irving; The
Fire-King, Scott (poem); The Speaking Rat, in Dickens, Uncommercial
Traveller, chapter 15.
THANKSGIVING DAY
For grades 1-4
A Thanksgiving Dinner, in White, When Molly was Six; The Chestnut Boys,
in Poulsson, In the Child's World; The First Thanksgiving Day, in
Wiggin and Smith, Story Hour; The Marriage of Mondahmin, in Judd, Wigwam
Stories; The Turkey's Nest, in Lindsay, More Mother Stories; The Visit,
in Lindsay, More Mother Stories; Turkeys Turning the Tables, in Howells,
Christmas Every Day.
For grades 5-6.
A Dinner That Ran Away, in Miller, Kristy's Surprise Party; A Mystery
in the Kitchen, in Miller, Kristy's Surprise Party; Ann Mary, Her Two
Thanksgivings, in Wilkins, Young Lueretia; An Old-Time Thanksgiving, in
Indian Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; The Coming of Thanksgiving, and
The Season of Pumpkin Pies, in Warner, Being a Boy; The Magic Apples,
in Brown, In the Days of Giants; St. Francis's Sermon to the Birds,
Longfellow (poem), in Story-Telling Poems.
For grades 7-8.
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Alcott; The First Thanksgiving Day,
Preston (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Night Before Thanksgiving,
in Jewett, The Queen's Twin; The Peace Message (poem), in Stevenson,
Poems of American History; The Turkey Drive, in Sharp, Winter.
CHRISTMAS DAY
For grades 1-4.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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