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Sara Cone Bryant
Sara Cone Bryant was an American author and educator, best known for her contributions to children's literature in the early 20th century. She wrote "How to Tell Stories to Children" (1905), a guidebook that helped teachers and parents engage children through storytelling. Her works emphasized the importance of oral storytelling and its role in child development. Some of her other popular books include "Stories to Tell to Children" and "The Magic of Speech," which further explore effective methods for sharing stories with young audiences.
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Not long ago, I chanced to open a magazine at a story of Italian life which dealt with a curious popular custom. It told of the love of the people for the performances of a strangely clad, periodically appearing old man who was a professional story-teller. This old man repeated whole cycles of myth and serials of popular history, holding his audience-chamber in whatever corner of the open court or...
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SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STORY-TELLER 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...
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Sara Cone Bryant
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STORY-TELLER 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...
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