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Title: Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades

Author: Florence Holbrook

Release Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #27764]

Language: English

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DRAMATIC READER

FOR LOWER GRADES

BY

FLORENCE HOLBROOK

NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1911,

BY FLORENCE HOLBROOK.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON.

HOLBROOK'S DRAMATIC READER.

TO THE CHILDREN

These little plays--well-known stories done into dialogue--were written
for children who like to imagine themselves living with their favorite
characters in forest, in palace, or in fairyland.

It is hoped that you will enjoy these old friends in their new dress
almost as well as you loved them in the old. When you read the words of
bird or tree or prince or child, try to speak with the voice and manner
which you think that character would use. Thus you will make the reading
a joy to yourselves and a great satisfaction to your hearers.

To try to put oneself in the place of another is very good training for
the imagination. It also teaches us to be more kind to others and to
all living creatures. We learn that most persons are striving to do
better and to be better, and we grow in understanding and sympathy.

May these little plays help you to the enjoyment of the great dramas
which you will read when you are older.

FLORENCE HOLBROOK

CONTENTS

PAGE

LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 7

GOLDILOCKS, OR THE THREE BEARS 16

THE BIRD WITH THE BROKEN WING 26

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