World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls / One Hundred and Eighty-seven Five-minute Classic Stories for Retelling in Home, Sunday School, Children's Services, Public School Grades and "The Story-hour" in Public Libraries

GLAD COMRADESHIP WITH THE GLADNESS OF A CHILD
WORLD STORIES RETOLD FOR MODERN BOYS AND GIRLS
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN FIVE-MINUTE CLASSIC STORIES FOR RETELLING IN HOME, SUNDAY-SCHOOL, CHILDREN’S SERVICES, PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADES, AND “THE STORY-HOUR” IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES
With Practical Suggestions for Telling
BY WILLIAM JAMES SLY, PH. D. Director of Sunday-School and Young People’s Work, and Teacher of Sunday-School Pedagogy in Colorado Woman’s College
PHILADELPHIA THE GRIFFITH & ROWLAND PRESS BOSTONST. LOUIS CHICAGOTORONTO, CAN.
Copyright 1914 by A. J. ROWLAND, Secretary Published December, 1914
TO Ellsworth AND THE HOSTS OF BOYS AND GIRLS SCATTERED EVERYWHERE TO WHOM I HAVE TOLD MANY OF THESE STORIES AND FROM WHOM I HAVE RECEIVED WARM APPRECIATION AND LOVE
This book is intended chiefly for the home. It is an aid to parents in introducing their children to some of the best stories in the world. It will be of obvious value also to Sunday-school teachers, ministers who preach to children, public-school teachers, kindergartners, librarians, and to all who perceive that the story method is the golden method of teaching.
“Where can I find suitable stories to tell?” is a frequent question asked by lovers of children who take seriously their cry of soul-hunger, “Tell me a story!” Oral story-telling within recent years has had a remarkable revival, and a response to both the child’s and the parent’s plea has been made in a number of charming collections of children’s stories and manuals on the art of story-telling. But it is well known that books of stories with material in a form readily adapted for telling are very few. Fewer still have attempted to gather into one volume those old favorites which should be the heritage of each succeeding generation of children. True, there are collections in many volumes, such as “The Children’s Hour,” in ten volumes; the “Junior Classics,” in ten volumes; and the series, “What Every Child Should Know,” in twenty volumes; but these, admirable in many respects, are bulky, expensive, and forbidden to all except the favored children of the rich. Mothers frequently ask for something condensed, comprehensive, and simple. It is to meet such a need, often expressed to him, that the author has gathered, during a number of years of experience in moral and religious education, these World Stories for telling to modern boys and girls.