Children's Literature / A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
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When all the novelists and spinners of elaborate fictions have been read and judged, we shall find that the peasant and the nurse are still unsurpassed as mere narrators. They are the guardians of that treasury of legend which comes to us from the very childhood of nations; they and their tales are the abstract and brief chronicles, not of an age merely, but of the whole race of man. It is theirs to keep alive the great art of telling stories as a thing wholly apart from and independent of the art of writing stories, and to pass on their art to children and to children's children. They abide in a realm of their own, in blessed isolation from that world of professional authors and their milk-and-water books for children.
—C. B. Tinker, In Praise of Nursery Lore, The Unpopular Review , October-December, 1916.
Professors of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School
RAND M c NALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK
Copyright, 1920, by Rand M c Nally & Company Copyright, 1921, by Rand M c Nally & Company All rights reserved
Made in U. S. A.
Charles Madison Curry
Erle Elsworth Clippinger
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CHARLES MADISON CURRY
THE CONTENTS
SECTION I
PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION
I. GENERAL COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
II. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
III. GUIDES IN TEACHING
2. MORE GENERAL AND INSPIRATIONAL
3. GUIDES TO BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
IV. BOOKS ON STORY-TELLING
V. ON DRAMATIZATION
VI. THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
VII. SOME INTERPRETATIONS OF CHILDHOOD
VIII. SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
SECTION I. PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION
THE PREFACE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1. LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
2. LITERATURE IN THE GRADES
3. STORY-TELLING AND DRAMATIZATION
4. COURSES OF STUDY
SECTION II
MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. IMPORTANT IN TRACING THE MOTHER GOOSE CANON
II. IMPORTANT MODERN COLLECTIONS
III. NURSERY RHYMES WITH MUSIC
IV. STUDIES
SECTION II. MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
SECTION III
FAIRY STORIES—TRADITIONAL TALES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. STANDARD GENERAL COLLECTIONS
II. NATIONAL COLLECTIONS
III. THE SCIENCE OF FOLKLORE
IV. PEDAGOGY
SECTION III: FAIRY STORIES—TRADITIONAL TALES
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS
SECTION IV
FAIRY STORIES—MODERN FANTASTIC TALES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SECTION IV: FAIRY STORIES—MODERN FANTASTIC TALES
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
SECTION V
FABLES AND SYMBOLIC STORIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
SECTION V: FABLES AND SYMBOLIC STORIES
INTRODUCTORY
SECTION VI
MYTHS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. GENERAL HANDBOOKS
II. GREEK AND ROMAN
III. NORTHERN MYTHS
IV. NATURE MYTHS ("POURQUOI" STORIES)
V. CRITICAL WORKS
SECTION VI. MYTHS
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS
SECTION VII
POETRY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. SOME IMPORTANT GENERAL COLLECTIONS
II. COLLECTIONS FOR CHILDREN
III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
SECTION VII. POETRY
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
THE TREASURES OF THE WISE MAN[1]
SECTION VIII
REALISTIC STORIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY AS A BASIS FOR TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REALISTIC STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
SECTION VIII. REALISTIC STORIES
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
SECTION IX
NATURE LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SECTION IX. NATURE LITERATURE
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
SECTION X
ROMANCE CYCLES AND LEGEND
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SECTION X. ROMANCE CYCLES AND LEGEND
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
SECTION XI
BIOGRAPHY AND HERO STORIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SECTION XI. BIOGRAPHY AND HERO STORIES
INTRODUCTORY
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
SECTION XII
HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX
SECTION XII. HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX
A HOME READING LIST
FIRST GRADE
SECOND GRADE
THIRD GRADE
FOURTH GRADE
FIFTH GRADE
SIXTH GRADE
SEVENTH GRADE
EIGHTH GRADE
INDEX
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