SPECIFIC BOOK INDEX
(the stories in this list have been alphabetized and are not in order of appearance)

Good Stories for Great Holidays, arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins. Olcott. Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Boston, New York, 1914.

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ARACHNE: Josephine Preston Peabody, Old Greek Folk Stories
BABES IN THE WOODS: John Burroughs, Bird Stories from Burroughs
BAUCIS AND PHILEMON: H. P. Maskell, Francis Storr
BETSY ROSS AND THE FLAG: Harry Pringle Ford
BILL BROWN'S TEST: Cleveland Moffett, Careers of Danger and Daring
BOSTON TEAPARTY: John Andrews, Letter to a friend written in 1773
BOY WHO BECAME A ROBIN: MYTH OF HIAWATHA: Henry R. Schoolcraft
BRAVE GIRL: James Johonnot, Stories of Heroic Deeds
BURG HILL'S ON FIRE: Elizabeth W. Grierson, Children's Book of Celtic Stories
BUSY BLUE JAY: Olive Thorne Miller, True Bird Stories
CANYON FLOWERS: Ralph Connor, The Sky Pilot
CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA: Washington Irving, Life of Washington
CHAMPION STONE CUTTER: Hugh Miller
CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR: Charles Dickens
CHOICE OF HERCULES: Xenophon, Memorabilia of Socrates
CHRISTMAS CUCKOO: Frances Browne, Granny's Wonderful Chair
CHRISTMAS DAY (December 25)
CHRISTMAS FAIRY OF STRASBURG, A GERMAN FOLKTALE: J. Stirling Coyne
CHRISTMAS ROSE, AN OLD LEGEND: Lizzie Deas, Flower Favourites
CHRISTMAS THORN OF GLASTONBURY, A Legend of Ancient Britain: William of Malmesbury +.
CLYTIE, THE HELIOTROPE: Ovid, Metamorphoses
COLONEL OF THE ZOUAVES: Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln
COLUMBUS AND THE EGG: James Baldwin, Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
COLUMBUS AT LA RABIDA: Washington Irving, Life of Christopher Columbus
COLUMBUS DAY (October 12)
CORNELIA S JEWELS: James Baldwin, Fifty Famous Stories Retold
COURAGE OF HIS CONVICTIONS: Adapted
CUPID AND PSYCHE: Josephine Preston Peabody, Old Greek Folk Stories
DAPHNE: OVID, Metamorphoses
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Washington Irving, Life of Washington
DOVE WHO SPOKE TRUTH: Abbie Farwell Brown, The Curious Book of Birds
DRYAD OF THE OLD OAK: James Russell Lowell, Rhoecus (a poem)
EARS OF WHEAT: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales
ECHO AND NARCISSUS: Ovid, Metamorphoses
ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER: Horace E. Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk Stories
ELVES: Harriet Mazwell Converse, Myths and legends of the New York State Iroquois
FAIRY TULIPS: English FolkTale
FIRST HARVEST HOME IN PLYMOUTH: W. De Loss Lore, Jr.
FIRST LANDING OF COLUMBUS IN THE NEW WORLD: Washington Irving
FLAG INCIDENT: M. M. Thomas, Captain Phil
GENERAL SCOTT AND THE STARS AND STRIPES: E. D. Townsend, Anecdotes of the Civil War
GEORGE PICKETT'S FRIEND: Charles W. Moores, Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls
GIRL'S VALENTINE CHARM: The Connoisseur, 1775
GREEDY GEESE: Il Libro d'Oro
GUNPOWDER STORY: John Esten Cooke, Stories of the Old Dominion
HALLOWEEN (October 31)BENEVOLENT GOBLIN: Gesta Romanorum
HANSEL AND GRETHEL: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales
HE RESCUES THE BIRDS: Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln
HILLMAN AND THE HOUSEWIFE: Juliana Horatia Ewing Old Fashioned Fairy Tales
HIS SPRINGFIELD FAREWELL ADDRESS [Lincoln]
HOFUS THE STONE CUTTER, A JAPANESE LEGEND: The Riserside Third Reader
HORN OF PLENTY: Ovid, Metamorphoses
HOW INDIAN CORN CAME INTO THE WORLD: The Myth of Hiawatha Henry R. Schoolcraft,
HYACINTHUS: Ovid, Metamorphoses
KING OF THE BIRDS: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales
KING OF THE CATS: Ernest Rhys, FairyGold
LABOR DAY (First Monday in September)
LARK AND ITS YOUNG ONES: P. V. Ramuswami Raju, Indian Fables
LESSON OF FAITH: Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Parables from Nature
LINCOLN AND THE LITTLE GIRL: Charles W. Moores, Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls
LINCOLN THE LAWYER: Z. A. Mudge, The Forest Boy
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY (February 10)
LITTLE DRUMMER BOY: Aloert Bushnell Hart, The Romance of the Civil War
LITTLE MATCH GIRL: Hans Christian Andersen, Stories and Tales
LITTLE PICCOLA: Celia Thazter, Stories and Poems for Children
LITTLE TREE THAT LONGED FOR OTHER LEAVES: Friedrieh Ruckert
lNDEPENDENCE DAY (July 4)
LOVELIEST ROSE IN THE WORLD:
MAGPIE'S NEST: Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales
MAILCOACH PASSENGERS: Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales
MASTER OF THE HARVEST: Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Parables from Nature
MAY DAY (May 1) and SPRING
MEMORIAL DAY (May 30)[1] AND FLAG DAY (June 14)
METAL KING: A German FolkTale
MOTHER MURRE: Dallas Lore Sharp, Summer
MOTHERS' DAY (Second Sunday in May)
MR. LINCOLN AND THE BIBLE: Z. A. Mudge, The Forest Boy
MR. PEPYS HIS VALENTINE: Samuel Pepys, Diary
MUTINY: A. de Lamartine, Life of Columbus
NAIL: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales
NEW YEAR'S DAY (January 1) FAIRY'S NEW YEAR GIFT: Emilie Poulsson, In the Child's World
NUTCRACKER DWARF: Count Franz Pocci, Fur Frohliche Kinder
OLD WITCH: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales
OLD WOMAN WHO BECAME A WOODPECKER: A Legend of the Northland (poem): Phoebe Cary
PHANTOM KNIGHT OF THE VANDAL CAMP: Gesta Romanorum
PINE TREE: Hans Christian Andersen, Wonder Stories
PRIDE OF THE REGIMENT: Recollections of a Drummer Boy : Harry M. Rieffer
PROUD OAK TREE: Old Fable
PUMPKIN PIRATES, A TALE FROM LUCIAN: Alfred J. Church, The Greek Gulliver
QUAILS, A LEGEND OF THE JATAKA: Riverside Fourth Reader
QUEEN MARGARET AND THE ROBBERS: Albert F. Blaisdell, Stories from Enylish History
RESURRECTION DAY (Easter Sunday) (March or April)
REVENGE OF CORIOLANUS: Charles Morris, Historical Tales
SAINT CHRISTOPHER: William Caxton, Golden Legend
SAINT CUTHBERT'S EAGLE: The Venerable Bede, Life and Miracles of Saint Cuthbert
SAINT VALENTINE: Millicent Olmsted
SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY (February 14)
SHIPPEITARO: Mary F. NixonRoulet, Japanese Folk Stories and Fairy Tales
SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: H. A. Guerber, The Story of the 13 Colonies
SMITHY: P. V. Ramaswami Raju, Indian Fables
SNOWDROP: Hans Christian Andersen; Adapted by Bailey and Lewis
SOLOMON COME TO JUDGMENT: Charles W. Moores, Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls
SPEAKING STATUE: Gesta Romanorum
SPIRIT OF THE CORN: Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois: Harriet Mazwell Converse
SPRING BEAUTY: Henry R. Schoolcraft, The Myth of Hiawatha
STAR SPANGLED BANNER: Eva March Tappan, Hero Stories from American History
STRANGE VISITOR: Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy TalesTHANKSGIVING DAY (Last Thursday in Nov)
STRANGER AT FIVEPOINTS: Adapted
STRANGER CHILD, A LEGEND: Count Franz Pocci, Fur Frohliche Kinder
STREAM THAT RAN AWAY: Mary Austin, The Basket Woman
THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE, A Legend of the Middle Ages: John of Hildesheim
THREE LITTLE BUTTERFLY BROTHERS: From the German
THREE OLD TALES: M. L. Weems, Life of George Washington, with Curious Anecdotes
THREE PURSES, A LEGEND: William S. Walsh, Story of Santa Klaus
THUNDER OAK, A SCANDINAVIAN LEGEND: William S. Walsh and Others
TONGUE-CUT SPARROW: A. B. Mitford, Tales of Old Japan
TRAINING FOR THE PRESIDENCY: Orison Swett Matden, Winning Out
TWELVE MONTHS: Alexander Chodsvko, Slav Fairy Tales
TWO HEROSTORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR: Ben La Bree, Camp Fires of the Confederacy
UNFRUITFUL TREE: Friedrich Adolph Krummacher, Parables
WASHINGTON AND THE COWARDS: Washington Irving, Life of Washington
WASHINGTON AT YORKTOWN: Henry Cabot lodge, George Washington
WASHINGTON THE ATHLETE: Hero Stories from America: Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis R. Ball
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY (February 22)
WASHINGTON'S MODESTY: Henry Cabot Lodge, George Washington
WATER DROP: Friedrich Wilhelm Carove, Story without an End, translated by Sarah Austin
WHY LINCOLN WAS CALLED ``HONEST ABE'': Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln
WHY THE ASPEN QUIVERS: Old legend
WHY THE EVERGREEN TREES NEVER LOSE THEIR LEAVES: Book of Nature Myths: F.Holbrook
WIDOW AND HER THREE SONS
WONDER TREE: Friedrich Adolph Krummacher, Parables
WOODEN SHOES OF LITTLE WOLFF: Francois CoppeeARBOR DAY
YOUNG GEORGE AND THE COLT: Horace E. Scudder, George Washington
YOUNG SENTINEL: Z. A. Mudge, The Forest Boy


(Updated 3/24/02)