ABSTRACT

The teacher who is preparing a story in a hurry will find in the class library section suggestions for books of "ready made" stories, many of them excellent of their kind, which will supply his needs. It is hoped that the material suggested here will also be of use to students in training colleges who are learning under the guidance of their lecturers to prepare stories for themselves. In either case, the matter suggested here gives only the raw material of the child's story; it is the teacher's task to decide what parts of it should be read or told. But the story prepared from it would have a glow and reality which the best second-hand story in the world could never possess: the teacher would tell better all his life the story which he has once thoroughly prepared from a good source. The romantic legendary accounts are given in Nennius Chronicle and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Britonum.