Description
As an example, here are the plays you’ll find:
- “Mont Saint Michel” – a Norman legend;
- “Our Favorite Star” for Grade Three;
- “Grammar’s Garden” for Grade Four;
- “The Magic Pitcher” for Grade Five;
- “The Golden Fleece” for Grade Five;
- “The Castle of the Kingdom of the Stones” for Grade Six – extracted and extended from The Bind Brethern by Friedrich Hiebel;
- “The Sacred Flame” – a story from Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlof ;
- “Columbus” by Georg Starke, translated by Barbara Betteridge;
- “The Other Wise Man” by Henry van Dyke, dramatized by Barbara Betteridge
And here’s a poem, chosen at random:
Acorn
Not by the thunder
The boulder was riven
That lies there asunder,
Helplessly cloven.
Not any mortal,
Of chisel though master,
Marked this for portal
Nor chose for pilaster.
Not any giant,
For gold or for gain,
Maimed the defiant
And clove it in twain.
Might, them denied,
To an acorn was given,
To spring the stone wide
And thrust upward to heaven.
