Children -- Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography; Children's stories -- Bibliography; Storytelling
THE STORY OF THESEUS. From Kingsley's "Heroes."
How Theseus lifted the stone.
How Theseus slew the Corynetes.
How Theseus slew Sinis.
How Theseus slew Kerkyon and Procrustes.
How Theseus slew the Medea and was acknowledged the
son of Aegeus.
How Theseus slew the Minotaur. To be told in six parts
as a series.
THE STORY OF CROESUS.
THE CONSPIRACY OF THE MAGI.
ARION AND THE DOLPHIN.
From "Wonder Tales from Herodotus," by N. Barrington D'Almeida.
These stories are intended for reading, but could be shortened
for effective narration.
CORIOLANUS.
JULIUS CAESAR.
ARISTIDES.
ALEXANDER.
From "Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls," by W. H. Weston.
These stories must be shortened and adapted for narration.
THE GOD OF THE SPEARS: THE STORY OF ROMULUS.
HIS FATHER'S CROWN: THE STORY OF ALCIBIADES.
From "Tales from Plutarch," by F. J. Rowbotham. These stories
may be shortened and told in sections.
EAST INDIAN STORIES.
THE WISE OLD SHEPHERD.
THE RELIGIOUS CAMEL.
From "The Talking Thrush," by W. H. D. Rouse.
LESS INEQUALITY THAN MEN DEEM.
From "Old Deccan Days," by Mary Frere.
THE BRAHMAN, THE TIGER AND THE SIX JUDGES.
This story may be found in "The Fairy Ring," edited by Kate
Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith; also in "Tales of
the Punjab," by F. A. Steel, under the title of "The Tiger,
the Brahman and the Jackal."
TIT FOR TAT.
From "Old Deccan Days," by Mary Frere. This story may be
found in "The Fairy Ring," edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin
and Nora Archibald Smith.
"PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL."
HARISARMAN.
From "Indian Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs.
THE BEAR'S BAD BARGAIN.
LITTLE ANKLEBONE.
PEASIE AND BEANSIE.
From "Tales of the Punjab," by F. A. Steel.
THE WEAVER AND THE WATERMELON.
THE TIGER AND THE HARE.
From "Indian Nights Entertainment," by Synnerton.
THE VIRTUOUS ANIMALS.
This story should be abridged for narration.
THE ASS AS SINGER.
THE WOLF AND THE SHEEP.
From "Tibetan Tales," by F. A. Schiefner.
A STORY ABOUT ROBBERS.
From "Out of the East," by Lafcadio Hearn.
DRIPPING.
From "Indian Fairy Tales," by Mark Thornhill.
THE BUDDHA AS TREE-SPIRIT.
THE BUDDHA AS PARROT.
THE BUDDHA AS KING.
From "A Collection of Eastern Stories and Legends,"
by M. L. Shedlock.
RAKSHAS AND BAKSHAS.
This story may be found in "Tales of Laughter," edited by
Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, under the
title of "The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey."
THE BREAD OF DISCONTENT.
From "Legendary Lore of all Nations."
A GERM DESTROYER.
NAMGARY DOOLA.
A good story for boys, to be given in shortened form.
From "The Kipling Reader," by Rudyard Kipling.
A STUPID BOY.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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