Number Stories Of Long Ago

This reissued resource book, orginally published in 1919, uses a dramatic storytelling technique to capture students' imagination. It includes eight colour plates and activities, puzzles and problems and makes great supplemental reading for elementary school classes.

Excerpt from Number Stories of Long Ago These are the stories that were really told in the crisp autumn evenings, the story-teller sitting by the fire that burned in the great fireplace in the cottage by the sea. These are the stories as he told them to the Tease and the rest of the circle of friends known as the Crowd. Sitting by the fire and listening to the stories, in the lights and shadows of the dancing flames they could see the forms of Ching and Lugal and all the rest with their curious dress of long ago. Night after night he told these tales of the ages past, stories unlike the make-believes they had often heard, stories of what might really have happened when the world was young, stories that the Crowd said were different because they told of much that was new, much that was curious, and much that was interesting. So the Crowd learned many strange things that have happened in Number Land, but they learned much more than this for the story-teller told them much that was interesting about the way in which boys and girls used to write in centuries long past how Ching wrote on palm leaves, and Lugal on bricks. 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.

Long, Long Ago is a collection of five short stories, intended for children around the ages of 6-12. The words used in the stories are easy to read so that the kids can read on their own. The stories are written in such a way that the rhyming phrases will make it fun to read and to listen. Each page has a coloured illustration capturing the story being narrated in that page. The stories revolve around imaginary characters like trolls, talking animals and birds, fairies, witches and wizards. All the stories end on a happy note.

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