The Story-teller
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Parents and early childhood educators looking for parent-child reading material
- Readers studying early children's literature and oral narrative traditions
- English learners who wish to practice reading aloud with simple short pieces
- Collectors and edition enthusiasts interested in early twentieth-century children's books
Not a good fit for
- Adult fiction readers seeking complex plots and deep character development
- English beginners needing modern graded readers or bilingual annotations
- Education researchers expecting systematic educational theory rather than story texts
Reading tips
- Read the stories aloud to appreciate how sentence rhythm and repetition are designed for listeners.
- In parent-child reading, tell the story first and then read it; let the child retell the plot and then compare with the text.
- Read in scattered installments, one or two stories at a time, so as not to lose freshness by reading it all at once.
- Compare with children's story collections of the same period to observe shared features of the oral narrative tradition.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Maud Lindsay (1874–1941) was an American children's literature author and a pioneer in kindergarten education. She focused on early childhood education and early reading, advocating the use of stories and drama to guide young children's learning and expression, and her writing was closely tied to her educational practice. Her representative works, Mother Stories and The Story-teller, draw largely on children's everyday experiences and play situations; their simple language and lively rhythm make them easy to tell and perform, suitable for parents and teachers to read aloud to young children and for children to retell and join in. She wrote children's plays and stories with an emphasis on being performable and tellable, promoting the use of storytelling in kindergartens and homes. Public information about the details of her life is limited, but her works are still regarded as part of the early tradition of children's storytelling and remain an inspiration for later early-reading and drama education.
