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Stories To Tell Children
Stories To Tell Children
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Stories To Tell Children
Concerning the fundamental points of method in telling a story, I have
little to add to the principles which I have already stated as necessary, in
my opinion, in the book of which this is, in a way, the continuation. But in
the two years which have passed since that book was written, I have had
the happiness of working on stories and the telling of them, among
teachers and students all over this country, and in that experience certain
secondary points of method e to seem more important, or at least
more in need of emphasis, than they did before. As so often happens, I had
assumed that "those things are taken for granted;" whereas, to the beginner
or the teacher not naturally a story-teller, the secondary or implied
technique is often of greater difficulty than the mastery of underlying
principles. The few suggestions which follow are of this practical, obvious
kind.
Take your story seriously. No matter how riotously absurd it is, or how
full of inane repetition, remember, if it is good enough to tell, it is a real
story, and must be treated with respect. If you cannot feel so toward it, do
not tell it. Have faith in the story, and in the attitude of the children toward
it and you. If you fail in this, the immediate result will be a touch of
shame- facedness, affecting your man