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Description:  A choice collection of stories for the preschool child, carefully selected, adapted, and arranged by two veteran kindergarten teachers. Includes nature stories, holiday stories, fairy tales and fable, as well as stories of home life. Emphasis is placed on fanciful tales for their value in the training of the imagination and on cumulative tales for developing a child's sense of humor and appealing to his instinctive love of rhyme and jingle.

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STORIES OF THE HOME RELATIONSHIP

MOTHER AND THE CHILDREN

1. The Little Gray Grandmother

2. Grandmother's Curtains

3. Hans and the Wonderful Flower

4. The Mince Pie

5. The Fairy Who Came to Our House

6. Selling Timothy Titus

7. The Top and the Ball

8. The Long Procession

THE HOME

THE HOME

9. How the Home Was Built

10. What Kept the New Chimney Waiting

11. The Stone Baby

12. The Tale of the Littlest Mouse

13. The House That Jack Built

14. The Sheep and the Pig

FOOD-STUFFS

15. The Tomato Story

16. Little King Brogan

17. Two Little Cooks

18. Smiling Girls and Rosy Boys

19. Pat-a-Cake

20. The Big Red Apple

21. The Wonderful Porridge Pot

22. The Gingerbread Boy

23. The Gingerbread Man

THE FARMER

24. Do What You Can

25. The Stolen Corn

26. Making the Best of It

27. Why the Bean Wears a Stripe Down Its Back

28. The Little Field Mice

29. The Ugly Duckling

30. The Rich Goose

CLOTHING

31. The Flax

32. The Calico's Story

33. The New Red Dress

34. Little Bo Peep

35. Baa, Baa Black Sheep

STORIES OF INDUSTRY

36. The Story of Nehemiah

37. The Stone Cutter

38. The Village Blacksmith

39. The Elves and the Shoemaker

40. The Stone in the Road

41. Pippa Passes

NATURE STORIES

FALL: PREPARATION FOR WINTER

42. The Story of Persephone

43. The Seed Babies' Blanket

44. The Snowflake and the Leaf

45. The Robin

46. The Anxious Leaf

47. The Elder Brother

WINTER: THE SKY, ICE, AND SNOW

48. Winter

49. Silvercap, King of the Frost Fairies

50. What Broke the China Pitcher

51. The Legend of the Dipper

52. The Snowman

53. Grandfather's Penny

SPRING: LIGHT, WATER, BIRDS, TREES

54. The Sleeping Princess

55. The Old Street Lamp

56. The Candles

57. Little Nancy Etticoat

58. The Windmill

59. Little Half Chick

60. The Wind and the Sun

61. The Story of Phaeton

62. The Sun's Sisters

63. Tom, the Water Baby

64. Latona and the Rustics

65. How We First Came to Have Umbrellas

66. Who Likes the Rain?

67. The Oriole's Journey

68. The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

69. The Legend of the Woodpecker

70. How the Robin's Breast Became Red

71. How the Apple Blossom Came Back

72. Apple-Seed John

73. Up in a Green Orchard

74. The Oak Tree and the Linden

75. The Little Pine Tree Who Wished for New Leaves

SUMMER: FLOWERS AND INSECTS

76. The Legend of the Arbutus

77. The Daisy

78. The Legend of the Dandelion

79. The Dandelion

80. The Story of Clytie

81. Goldenrod and Aster

82. The Little Brown Bowl

83. The Story of Arachne

84. The Cricket and the Poet

85. Cupid and Psyche

86. The Baby Queen

87. Mother Spider

88. Little Miss Muffett

89. The Little Girl Who Would Not Work

HOLIDAY STORIES

THANKSGIVING

90. The Story of Ruth and Naomi

91. The Story of the First Corn

92. Who Ate the Dolly's Dinner?

93. A Great Surprise

CHRISTMAS

94. The Christmas Story

95. The Good Shepherd

96. The Legend of St. Christopher

97. Babouscka

98. The Legend of the Christmas Tree

99. How the Fir Tree Became the Christmas Tree

100. The Pine Tree

101. Little Cosette

102. Tiny Tim

103. Mrs. Santa Claus

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY

104. Stuart's Valentine

105. Big Brother's Valentine

STORIES OF HEROISM

106. St. George and the Dragon

107. The Story of Theseus

108. A Little Lad of Long Ago

109. How Cedric Became a Knight

110. The Brave Tin Soldier

EASTER

111. Daffy Down Dilly

112. The Snowdrop

113. Herr Oster Hare

114. The Coming of the King

FAIRY TALES AND FABLES

FAIRY TALES

115. The Old Woman and Her Pig

116. The Cat and the Mouse

117. The Little Red Hen

118. Chicken Little

119. The Travels of a Fox

120. The Living Alarm Clock

121. The Three Bears

122. The Three Little Pigs

123. Peter, Paul, and Espen

124. Little Sunshine

125. Eavesdropper, the Ugly Dwarf

126. Rumpel-Stilts-Kin

127. The House in the Wood

128. The Spindle, Needle, and Shuttle

FABLES

129. The Ant and the Grasshopper

130. The Ant and the Dove

131. The Crow and the Pitcher

132. The Gourd and the Pine Tree

133. The Crow and the Fox

134. The Dog and His Shadow