How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell, credited to Sara Cone Bryant, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell, by Sara Cone Bryant. Sara Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to tell children. This volume expounds on her theories and practices of telling stories to children, and provides several examples. Her conversational writing style makes this work as relevant for parents and teachers as it was 90 years ago. (Summary by Sean McGaughey)

Recording facts

• Recording title: How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell
• Author credits: Sara Cone Bryant
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 5:54:17

Catalogue topics

• children
• storytelling
• education

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface and Introduction — 20:32
2. 1 - The Purpose of Storytelling in School — 39:38
3. 2a - Selection of Stories to Tell — 5:05
4. 2b - Example Story: The Three Little Pigs — 5:55
5. 2c - Example Story: The Three Bears — 8:45
6. 2d - Example Story: The Old Woman and her Pig — 5:17
7. 2e - Suggestions and List of Familiar Fairy Tales — 15:03
8. 3a - Adaptation of Stories for Telling — 9:45
9. 3b - Example Story: The Golden River — 14:41
10. 3c - Further Comment — 2:11
11. 3d - Example Story: The Red Thread of Courage — 4:18
12. 3e - Example Story: The Elf and the Dormouse — 5:16
13. 3f - Analysis of Method — 1:42
14. 4 - How to Tell the Story — 39:03
15. 5 - Some Specific Schoolroom uses of Storytelling — 15:37
16. 6 - Stories Selected and Adapted for Telling- Especially for Kindergarten and Class I — 43:48
17. 7 - Stories Selected and Adapted for Telling- Especially for for Classes II and III — 52:35
18. 8 - Stories Selected and Adapted for Telling- Especially for Classes IV and V — 47:42
19. 9 -The Child Mind and How to Satisfy It — 17:35

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