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Excerpt from Stories to Tell the Children: A Selected List With Stories and Poems for Holiday Programs Through the story-teller's understanding of the meaning of the story and her appreciation of its artistic form, the story is given color; its high lights are given relief, and the noble, the heroic, the pathetic, the humorous and the joyous quali ties of thought and action are brought clearly to the conscious ness of the children. The voice, expression and gesture are used to portray all shades of thought and feeling, giving life to the story, distinctness to the scenes and vividness to the action. Children enter into the experiences of the characters with a degree of freedom, spontaneity and appreciation which is not possible where the printed page intervenes. Delightful, wholesome fields are opened to the imagination in this way, pleasure is found in literature, and a capacity for enjoyment of the best that books can offer is created and fostered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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