The Story Hour A Book For The Home And The Kindergarten

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The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten By Smith Wiggin Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

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Excerpt from The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten Story-telling, like letter-writing, is going out of fashion. There are no modern Scheherezades, and the Sultans nowadays have to be amused in a different fashion. But, for that matter, a hundred poetic pastimes of leisure have fled before the relentless Hurry Demon who governs this prosaic nineteenth century. The Wandering Minstrel is gone, and the Troubadour, and the Court of Love, and the King's Fool, and the Round Table, and with them the Story-Teller. "Come, tell us a story!' It is the familiar plea of childhood. Unhappy he who has not been assailed with it again and again. Thrice miserable she who can be consigned to worse than oblivion by the scathing criticism, "She does n't know any stories!' and thrice blessed she who is recognized at a glance as a person likely to be full to the brim of them. There are few preliminaries and no formalities when the Person with a Story is found. 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.

There it hangs, on a corner of the picture frame, very much as it hung in the oldwillow-tree out in the garden.It was spring time, and I used to move my rocking-chair up to the window, where Icould lean out and touch the green branches, and watch there for the wonderfulbeautiful things to tell my little children in the kindergarten. There I saw the busy littleants hard at work on the ground below; the patient, dull, brown toads snapping flies inthe sunshine; the striped caterpillars lazily crawling up the trunk of the tree; and dozensof merry birds getting ready for housekeeping.Did you know the birdies "kept house"? Oh, yes; they never "board" like men andwomen; indeed, I don't think they even like to RENT a house without fixing it over to suitthemselves, but they 'd much rather go to work and build one,"So snug and so warm, so cosy and neat, To start at their housekeeping all complete