{"product_id":"2940013986718","title":"How To Tell Stories To Children","description":"The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part those which I have found to be best liked by the children to whom I have told these and others. I have tried to reproduce the form in which I actually tell  them,- although that inevitably varies with every repetition,- feeling that it would be of greater value to another story-teller than a more closely literary form. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the same reason, I have confined my statements of theory as to method, introspection and retrospection, at the urging of others, long after the\u003cbr\u003einstinctive method they exemplify had become habitual. These facts are the basis of my hope that the book may be of use to those who have much to do with children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be impossible, in the space of any pardonable preface, to name the teachers, mothers, and librarians who have given me hints and helps during the past few years of story-telling. But I cannot let these pages go to press without recording my especial indebtedness to the few persons without whose interested aid the little book would scarcely have come to be. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey are: Mrs Elizabeth Young Rutan, at whose generous instance I first enlarged my own field of entertaining story-telling to include hers, of educational narrative, and from whom I had many valuable suggestions at that time; Miss Ella L. Sweeney, assistant superintendent of schools, Providence, R.I., to whom I owe exceptional opportunities for investigation and experiment; Mrs Root, children's librarian of Providence Public Library, and Miss Alice M. Jordan, Boston Public Library,children's room, to whom I am indebted for much.....","brand":"M\u0026M Pubs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147655201008,"sku":"2940013986718","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013986718_p0.jpg?v=1763598454","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013986718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}