We all came out of a bottle of ink!
The Ink-Bottle Babies in every clime,
Cry, ‘Hurrah! hurrah! for vacation time!’”
Fairy Tales of Long Ago
By Julia Darrow Cowles
| Grades 3-4 | Cloth Binding |
| 128 Pages | Colored Illustrations |
Price, 60 Cents a Copy, Postpaid
Train a child’s imagination by feeding it with the fancies of great story-tellers, is a truism familiar to all teachers. There is nothing like the old fairy tales for nourishing young imaginations. This group of tales Mrs. Cowles has gathered from many sources and retold in charming fashion. That they have gained, rather than lost, by the retelling, will soon become apparent to teachers; for only the simplest words and phrases are used, and the narrative is so handled as to emphasize the homely lesson in manners or morals concealed in the story.
These tales are full of action and delicious nonsense which accord with the child’s mode of living and thinking. Besides teaching the children to read, and furnishing them with much fine entertainment, these stories inculcate lessons in good-fellowship, usefulness, politeness, and agreeable wholesome living.
The volume comprises fifteen stories, five of which are dramatized for schoolroom use.