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SECTION XII

HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX

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Forsooth he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue even as the.child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such others as have a pleasant taste..

-Sir Philip Sidney, An Apologie for Poetrie.

SECTION XII. HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX

A HOME READING LIST

Children are such omnivorous readers that teachers and parents are constantly at their wit's end, not only in naming enough books to supply their demands, but in grouping these books according to the order of difficulty. Most public libraries can furnish such lists based upon their experience with children. In fact no modern public library can carry on its work successfully without an especially prepared librarian in charge of the books for children. The arrangement of any list by grades must at best be only approximate, but if done in the light of a wide experience may be of the greatest practical help to the young teacher or to the parent. The following list is one issued by the Chicago Public Library, and is used here through the great kindness of Miss Adah F. Whitcomb, supervisor of the children's room and director of the training class. Any well-selected collection for children will contain a large proportion of these titles, and the list is extended enough and varied enough to furnish attractive reading material for any young person. At need it may be supplemented by the more elaborate lists found in some of the guides mentioned in the General Bibliography (p. 2).

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Fox, Florence Cornelia, The Indian Primer.

Gaynor, Mrs. Jessie Love, and Riley, Alice C. D., Songs of the Child-World.
Greenaway, Kate, Under the Window.

Haaren, John Henry, Rhymes and Fables.

Howard, Frederick Ward, Banbury Cross Stories.

Lansing, Marion Florence, The Child's World Garden.

Le Fèvre, Felicité, The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen.

Lucas, Edward Verrall, Four and Twenty Toilers.

Mother Goose, The Real Mother Goose (illus. by Blanche Fisher Wright).

Noyes, Marion, The Sunshine Primer.

Saxby, Lewis, Life of a Wooden Doll.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, Wild Animal Play for Children.

Skinner, A. M., and Lawrence, L. N., Little Dramas for Primary Grades.

Smith, Elmer Boyd, Chicken World.

Varney, A. S., The Robin Reader.

Welsh, Charles, (ed.), Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes..

Wiltse, Sara E., Folklore Stories and Proverbs.

SECOND GRADE

Adelborg, Ottilia, Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea.
Esopus, Fables (Dalkeith ed.).

Bannerman, Mrs. Helen, Story of Little Black Sambo.

Bass, Florence, Nature Stories for Young Readers: Animal Life.
Nature Stories for Young Readers: Plant Life.

Bryce, Catherine Turner, Stevenson Reader.

Burgess, Gelett, Goops, and How to Be Them.
More Goops, and How Not to Be Them.

Caldecott, Randolph, Come Lasses Picture Book.
Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book.

Coe, Ida, Story Hour Readers. Vols. 3, 4.

Cooke, Flora J., Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children.
Craik, Georgiana Marion, Bow-wow and Mew-mew.

Crane, Walter, Baby's Own Esop.

Deming, Therese Osterheld, Little Indian Folk.

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Tileston, Mary Wilder Foote, Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice.
Tolman, Stella Webster Carroll, Around the World, Vol. 1.

Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, Classic Fables.

Weatherly, F. E., The Book of Gnomes.

THIRD GRADE

Aspinwall, Mrs. Alicia, Short Stories for Short People.
Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, Boys and Girls of Colonial Days.

Brocks, Dorothy, Red Children.

Brooke, Leonard Leslie, Golden Goose Book.

Brown, Abbie Farwell, Christmas Angel.

Lonesomest Doll.

Browning, Robert, Pied Piper of Hamelin (illus. by Hope Dunlap).

Chisholm, Louey, Nursery Rhymes.

Deming, Mrs. Therese Osterheld, Children of the Wild.

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Francis, Joseph Greene, Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals.
Gates, Mrs. Josephine Scribner, Story of Live Dolls.

Gerson, Virginia, Happy Heart Family.

Grimm, Jacob L. K., and Wilhelm, K., Fairy Tales (Lucas ed.).

Fairy Tales (Wiltse ed.).

Haaren, John Henry, Fairy Life.

Lang, Andrew, Prince Darling, and Other Stories.

Lansing, Marion Florence, Rhymes and Stories.

McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, Classic Stories for the Little Ones.

Morley, Margaret Warner, Seed-Babies.

Peary, Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch, Snow Baby.

Perkins, Lucy Fitch, Dutch Twins.

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Thorne-Thomsen, Mrs. Gudrun, East o' the Sun.

Trimmer, Mrs. Sarah K., History of the Robins.

Valentine, Mrs. Laura Jewry, Aunt Louisa's Book of Fairy Tales.
Woodward, Alice B., Peter Pan Picture Book.

FOURTH GRADE

Alden, Raymond Macdonald, Why the Chimes Rang.

Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy Tales (Lucas ed.).

Barrie, James Matthew, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.

Brown, Abbie Farwell, John of the Woods.

Brown, Helen Dawes, Little Miss Phoebe Gay.

Browne, Frances, Granny's Wonderful Chair, and Its Tales of Fairy Times.

Campbell, Helen LeRoy, Story of Konrad, the Swiss Boy.

Carryl, Charles Edward, Davy and the Goblin.

Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria, Adventures of a Brownie.

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