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506 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
Folk-Tales and Other Stories Which May Be
Dramatized and Played by Children
The stories are arranged so as to bring first on the list those for
youngest children and those that may be most easily dramatized and
acted. Under each title the original folk-lore collection from which the
story has been taken and the sources containing the best versions are
given first. Titles in parentheses are those under which the stories
may be found in the books listed.
Story of the three bears.
Jacobs. English fairy tales.
Lang. Green fairy book.
These sources give the Southey version, which is the one preferred.
Elves and the shoemaker.
Grimm. Household stories. (The elves.)
Grimm. Household tales. ("Elves and the cobbler.)
Grimm. Fairy tales.
Scudder. Book of fables and folk stories.
Scudder. Book of folk stories.
Scudder. Children's book.
Norton. Heart of oak books, v.3.
Epaminondas.
Bryant. Stories to tell to children.
Van Sickle & Seegmiller. Second reader.
Bremen Town musicians.
Grimm. Household stories.
Grimm. Fairy tales.
Scudder. Book of fables and folk stories. (Traveling musicians.)
Scudder. Book of folk stories. (Traveling musicians.)
Scudder. Children's book. (Traveling musicians.)
How Jack went to seek his fortune.
Jacobs. English fairy tales.
A variant of "Bremen Town musicians."
Cinderella; or, The little glass slipper.
Perrault. Tales of Mother Goose.
Lang. Blue fairy book.
Scudder. Book of fables and folk stories.
Scudder. Book of folk stories.
Scudder. Children's book.
Tappan. Folk stories & fables.
The gruesome ending found in some versions should be changed.
Why the chimes rang.
Alden. Why the chimes rang.