Short Stories for Seniors to Read Aloud

40 Gentle Stories from the 1950s and 60s in 16 Point Large Print, Each With Three Questions to Talk About Afterwards

von Marian Fenmore

232 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You can read any story in this book out loud in about four minutes.

That is the whole design. Four minutes is roughly as long as someone will listen without losing the thread, and short enough that you can read one, talk for a while, and read another.

Forty stories set in ordinary American life in the 1950s and 60s. A book of Green Stamps saved for a toaster. A party line where the neighbor listened to every call. The milkman's horse that knew the route better than the milkman did. The night the television arrived and nineteen people came over to look at it. Sheets frozen stiff on the line in January. A first car bought for seventy five dollars with a hole in the floor.

THREE QUESTIONS AFTER EVERY STORY

Each story is followed by its own page headed Something to Talk About, with three questions on it and nothing else.

Not a quiz and not a memory test. There are no right answers and nobody has to say anything. They are there for the moment when the story ends and neither of you knows what to say next.

SET IN 16 POINT TYPE, AND IT SAYS SO

The Library of Congress says large print is most commonly 16 to 18 point. This book is set in 16 point, on cream paper, generously spaced. Most large print books never tell you the size. This one does, on the cover and inside, so you are not guessing.

Every page is numbered, front to back, and the page numbers in the contents are the real ones. You can stop in the middle of a story and find your way back.

WHO IT IS FOR

Sons and daughters visiting a parent. Grandchildren. Husbands and wives. Care home activity coordinators, memory care staff, speech therapists, and anyone who runs a group and needs something that works for a whole room.

There is a short note at the front on reading aloud, and a second note for anyone reading to a group rather than to one person.

Nothing here is frightening and nothing is political. Read them in any order. Nothing follows on from anything else.

• ISBN: 9798171944155
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp