Publisher's Synopsis
The object of this little work is to furnish teachers and those having the care of small children with suitable stories to relate or read to their pupils. As is well known, children are always delighted in listening to a simple story. Nothing has a better tendency to secure their attention than the relating of some narrative that they can comprehend. This being the case, they can be taught valuable lessons by means of stories which illustrate principles far more effectively than in any other way. The teacher of young children in a Sunday school or Primary Association should make it a point to have some nice moral story prepared for each meeting of the class. This will help greatly to keep up the interest among the little folks, and at the same time they can be benefitted. The following carefully selected stories are hereby submitted for the teacher's use. If the IV TO TEACHERS. Lesson intended to be conveyed is not as clearly shown in some of the stories as is necessary for the children to comprehend them, the teacher can make a plainer application as he or she may desire. It is not intended that the teacher's originality or ingenuity should be dispensed with in using these stories.
It is recommended that the teacher relate these narratives in the course of his or her remarks to the class, by way of Illustrations of principles that are being taught. If this is not done the stories might be read from the book; and to see that the children fully under-stand them and the lessons they are intended to teach, call on members of the class to relate the stories in their own language, and question the class about the lesson to be learned.
