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
Flower of the Almond and Fruit of the Fig, in Foote, Little Fig-Tree
Stories; Earl and the Dryad, in Brown, Star Jewels; The Girl Who Became
a Pine Tree, in Judd, Wigwam Stories; The Kind Old Oak, in Poulsson,
In the Child's World; The Oak Tree, in Vawter, The Rabbit's Ransom; The
Workman and the Trees, in Ramaswami Raju, Indian Fables.
For grades 5-6.
Apple-Seed John, Child (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; How the Children
Saved Hamburg, in Marden, Winning Out; How the Indians Learned to Make
Maple Sugar, in University of the State of New York, Legends and Poetry
of the Forests; Old Pipes and the Dryad, in Stockton, Bee-Man of Orn;
Tale of Old Man and the Birch Tree, in University of the State of New
York, Legends and Poetry of the Forests; The Elm and the Vine, Rosas
(poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Gourd and the Palm (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Planting of the Apple Tree, Bryant (poem), in
Riverside Fifth Reader.
For grades 7-8.
Brier-Rose, Boyesen (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; How the Charter was
Saved, in Morris, Historical Tales, American; O-So-Ah, the Tall Pine
Speaks, in University of the State of New York, Legends and Poetry of
the Forests; The Eliot Oak, in Drake, New England Legends; The First of
the Trees, in University of the State of New York, Legends and Poetry of
the Forests; The Liberty Tree, in Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair, part
3. chapter 2; The Plucky Prince, May Bryant (poem), in Story-Telling
Poems; The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine, Mills; The Washington Elm, in
Drake, New England Legends.
BIRD DAY
For grades 1-4.
Out of the Nest, in Lindsay, More Mother Stories; The Fox and the Crow,
in Jacobs, Aesop's Fables; The Jackdaw and the Doves, in Scudder, Book
of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Jay and the Peacock, in Jacobs, Aesop's
Fables; The King, the Falcon, and the Drinking Cup, in Dutton, The
Tortoise and the Geese; The Lark and her Young Ones, in Scudder, Book
of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Monk and the Bird, in Scudder, Book of
legends; The Owl and his School, in Ramaswami Raju, Indian Fables;
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Lear (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The
Partridge and the Crow, in Dutton, The Tortoise and the Geese; The Pious
Robin, in Brown, Curious Book of Birds; The Rustic and the Nightingale,
in Dutton, The Tortoise and the Geese; The Sparrows, Thaxter (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Sparrows and the Snake, in Dutton, The Tortoise
and the Geese; The Spendthrift and the Swallow, in Scudder, Book
of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Story of the First Mocking-Bird, in
Holbrook, Book of Nature Myths; The Story of the Oriole, in Holbrook,
Book of Nature Myths; The Wren Who Brought Fire, in Brown, Curious Book
of Birds; Why the Peacock's Tail has a Hundred Eyes, in Holbrook, Book
of Nature Myths; Why the Peetweet Cries for Rain, in Holbrook, Book of
Nature Myths.
For grades 5-6.
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