On this page you will find audios of chapters found in Elizabeth McCracken's 'How To Teach Children Through Stories'.   It was written as a guide to  Eva March Tappan's 'The Children's Hour'.   Not all of the volumes of The Children's Hour are available on Internet Archive, so I have recorded stories from my copy so that you have access to them.  

AMBITION
Volume 3: Stories from the Classics

• The Miraculous Pitcher, p. 67
• The Golden Touch, p. 92
• Romulus, Founder of Rome, p. 31
• How Cincinnatus Saved Rome, p. 46
• The Duel Between Hector and Ajax, p. 207
• The Funeral Games of Anchises, p. 433
• Aeneas's First Great Battle with the Latins, p. 465
• The Sacrifice of Marcus Curtius, p. 63

LOVE OF HOME
Vol. 9  Poems and Rhymes

• A Child's Thought of God, p. 46
• The Noble Nature, p. 439
• The Chambered Nautilus, p. 446
• The Mountain and the Squirrel, p. 454
• Hark! Hark! the Lark, p. 303
• Auld Lang Syne, p. 289
• ​Song from 'Pippa Passes", p. 282

COURAGE
Vol. 1: Folk Stories and Fables

• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Hop-O'-My-Thumb
• Faithful John
• Beauty and the Beast​

LOYALTY
Vol. 4: Stories of Legendary Heroes

• Launcelot and Elaine, p. 70
• Arthur is Chosen King, p. 31
• Sir Bors and Sir Lionel, p. 60
• Owain and the Lady of the Fountain, p. 115
• Manawyddan and the Seven Enchanted Cantrevs, p. 148
• The Battle of Roncvals, p. 252
• Robin Hood and the Sorrowful Knight, p. 162
• The Quest of the Holy Grail, p. 47

COURTESY
Vol. 4: Stories of Legendary Heroes

• The Death of King Arthur, p. 98
• Owain and the Lady of the Fountain, p. 115
• Siegfried's Youth, p. 299
• How Firebras Defied King Charles, p. 239

PATRIOTISM
Vol. 8:  Adventures and Achievements

• The Mobbing of Garrison
• Dolly Madison and the Burning of Washington
• Lycurgus
• ​Judson in Burmah

HOSPITALITY
The Miraculous Pitcher, p. 67
The Child of the Forest, p. 394
Gulliver in Lilliput, p. 141
​At the House Beautiful, p. 18

PERSERVERANCE
Vol. 2:  Myths from Many Lands

• Atalanta's Race, p. 237
• The Golden Fleece, p. 60
• The Minotaur, . 166
• ​Balder and Mistletoe, p. 316

KINDNESS
Vol. 1: Folk Stories and Fables

• The Angel, p. 257
• Jack and His Master, p. 413
• Gudbrand on the Hillside, p. 312
• The Ugly Duckling, p. 233
• Who Killed the Otter's Babies? p. 354
• The Boys and the Frogs, p. 495
• The Constant Tin Soldier, p. 246
• The Fir-Tree, p. 261
• The Grateful Foxes, p. 326
• The Lion and the Mouse, p. 496
• Why the Evergreen Trees Never Lose Their Leaves, p. 514
• The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, p. 334
• The Brahmin, the Tiger and the Six Judges, p. 378
• ​Tit for Tat, p. 383​ ​

TRUTHFULNESS
Vol. 5:  Stories from Seven Old Favorites

• The Comedy of Errors, p. 391
• The Story of Sindbad the Sailor, p. 36
• A Visit to the House of the Interpreter, p. 7