All of the following books contain excellent material for the story-teller. While some of the stories are not perfectly adapted in form for telling, the best of them can be used with comparatively little change.
The list is not by any means comprehensive, but the books mentioned will abundantly reward the story-teller's search.
MELODIES AND FOLK TALES
Mother Goose Melodies—edited by W. A. Wheeler
Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes—translated by Isaac T. Headland
English Folk Tales—Jacobs
Book of Folk Stories—Scudder
Lullaby Land—Eugene Fields
Child's Garden of Verse—R. L. Stevenson
Nonsense Rhymes—Edward Lear
ETHICAL STORIES
Parables from Nature—Mrs. Gatty
Firelight Stories—Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
For the Children's Hour—Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Murray's Story Land
NATURE STORIES
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils—Selma Lagerlof.
Further Adventures of Nils—Selma Lagerlof
True Bird Stories—Olive Thorne Miller
