The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten
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PREFACE.
The fourteen little stories in this book are not offered as a collectionample enough to satisfy all needs of the kindergartner.
Such a collection should embrace representative stories of allclasses--narrative, realistic, imaginative, scientific, and historical,as well as brief and simple tales for the babies.
An experience of twelve years among kindergartners, however, has shownus that there is room for a number of books like this modest example;containing stories which need no adaptation or arrangement; which areready for the occasion, and which have been thoroughly tried beforeaudience after audience of children.
The three adaptations, "Benjy in Beast-Land," "Moufflou," and the"Porcelain Stove," have been made as sympathetically as possible. Theirintroduction needs no apology, for they are exquisite stories, and intheir original form much too advanced for children of the kindergartenage.
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.
NORA A. SMITH.