| | PAGE |
| STORY-TELLING | [1] |
| Kinds of Stories to Tell | [12] |
| The Principles of the Art of Telling Stories | [15] |
| Getting the Story | [16] |
| Telling the Story | [33] |
| The Child’s Part in Story-Telling | [62] |
| STORIES | [75] |
| The Fairy Horseshoe | A. M. K. | [77] |
| The Mouse and the Sausage | French Folk Tale | [79] |
| The Story of the Little Boy and the Little Dog | A. M. K. | [81] |
| The Story of the Two Cakes that Loved Each Other in Silence | Hans Christian Andersen | [84] |
| How the Rooster Built a House of His Own | A. M. K. | [85] |
| Thumbelina | Hans Christian Andersen | [88] |
| A Visit from an Elf | A. M. K. | [101] |
| How the Cat Got all the Grain | Eastern Folk Tale | [103] |
| The Table and the Chair | Edward Lear | [104] |
| The Wonderful Ship | A. M. K. | [106] |
| The Clever Geese | A. M. K. | [109] |
| The Happy Prince | Oscar Wilde | [110] |
| The Dwarf Roots’ Story of the Pumpkin Seed | A. M. K. | [121] |
| A Horse’s Story | From Anna Sewell | [126] |
| A Bewitched Donkey | A. M. K. | [130] |
| The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean | Folk Tale | [136] |
| Mother Holle | Folk Tale | [138] |
| Tom Thumb | English Folk Tale | [143] |
| The Two Brothers | Folk Tale | [158] |
| The Wooing | A. M. K. | [162] |
| Jack-the-Giant-Killer | English Folk Tale | [165] |
| The Pixies’ Thanks | A. M. K. | [167] |
| The Cat and the Parrot | Eastern Folk Tale | [170] |
| Lampblack | La Ramée | [174] |
| Lazy Jack | Folk Tale | [183] |
| The Time that Will Come Again | A. M. K. | [188] |
| The Owl’s Answer to Tommy | From Mrs. Ewing’s Brownies | [197] |
| The Story of Coquerico | Spanish Folk Tale | [204] |
| The Scarecrow | A. M. K. | [209] |
| Oeyvind and Marit | Björnstjerne Björnson | [214] |
| Blunder | Louise E. Chollet | [219] |
| The Golden Pears | Folk Tale | [227] |
| SOME VERY SHORT STORIES | [237] |