Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
Thumbelina Came to Live with the Field-Mouse.
Partial List of Authors and Editors Represented in The Young Folks Treasury by Selections from Their Writings:
OOKS are as much a part of the furnishing of a house as tables and chairs, and in the making of a home they belong, not with the luxuries but with the necessities. A bookless house is not a home; for a home affords food and shelter for the mind as well as for the body. It is as great an offence against a child to starve his mind as to starve his body, and there is as much danger of reducing his vitality and putting him at a disadvantage in his lifework in the one as in the other form of deprivation. There was a time when it was felt that shelter, clothing, food and physical oversight comprised the whole duty of a charitable institution to dependent children; to-day no community would permit such an institution to exist unless it provided school privileges. An acute sense of responsibility toward children is one of the prime characteristics of American society, shown in the vast expenditures for public education in all forms, in the increasing attention paid to light, ventilation, and safety in school buildings, in the opening of play grounds in large cities, in physical supervision of children in schools, and the agitation against the employment of children in factories, and in other and less obvious ways.
These twelve volumes aim, in brief, to make the home the most inspiring school and the most attractive place for pleasure, and to bring the best the world has to offer of adventure, heroism, achievement and beauty within its four walls.
Special attention has been given to the youngest children whose interests are often neglected because they are thought to be too immature to receive serious impressions from what is read to them. Psychology is beginning to make us understand that no greater mistake can be made in the education of children than underrating the importance of the years when the soil receives the seed most quickly. For education of the deepest sort—the planting of those formative ideas which give final direction and quality to the intellectual life—there is no period so important as the years between three and six, and none so fruitful. To put in the seed at that time is, as a rule, to decide the kind of harvest the child will reap later; whether he shall be a shrewd, keen, clever, ambitious man, with a hard, mechanical mind, bent on getting the best of the world; or a generous, fruitful, open-minded man, intent on living the fullest life in mind and heart. No apology is offered for giving large space to myths, legends, fairy stories, tales of all sorts, and to poetry; for in these expressions of the creative mind is to be found the material on which the imagination has fed in every age and which is, for the most part, conspicuously absent from our educational programmes.
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
NURSERY RHYMES
NURSERY TALES
CHILDREN'S FAVORITE POEMS
CHILDREN'S FAVORITE STORIES
OLD FASHIONED POEMS
FABLES
FABLES FROM ÆSOP
FABLES OF INDIA
FAIRY TALES AND LAUGHTER STORIES
SCANDINAVIAN STORIES
GERMAN STORIES
FRENCH STORIES
ENGLISH STORIES
CELTIC STORIES
ITALIAN STORIES
JAPANESE STORIES
EAST INDIAN STORIES
AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES
ARABIAN STORIES
CHINESE STORIES
RUSSIAN STORIES
TALES FOR TINY TOTS
FANCIFUL STORIES
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHILDHOOD'S FAVORITES
AND
FAIRY STORIES
NURSERY RHYMES
NURSERY TALES
THE THREE BEARS
CINDERELLA
THE THREE BROTHERS
THE WREN AND THE BEAR
CHICKEN-LICKEN
THE FOX AND THE CAT
THE RATS AND THEIR SON-IN-LAW
THE MOUSE AND THE SAUSAGE
JOHNNY AND THE GOLDEN GOOSE
TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE
TEENY TINY
THE SPIDER AND THE FLEA
THE LITTLE SHEPHERD BOY
THE THREE SPINNERS
THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
THE SWEET SOUP
THE STRAW THE COAL AND THE BEAN
WHY THE BEAR HAS A STUMPY TAIL
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
CHILDREN'S FAVORITE POEMS
CHILDREN'S FAVORITE STORIES
HANSEL AND GRETEL
THE FAIR CATHERINE AND PIF-PAF POLTRIE
THE WOLF AND THE FOX
DISCREET HANS
PUSS IN BOOTS
THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
HANS IN LUCK
MASTER OF ALL MASTERS
BELLING THE CAT
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD
THE NAIL
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
OLD-FASHIONED POEMS
FABLES
FABLES FROM ÆSOP
THE GOOSE THAT LAID GOLDEN EGGS
THE BOYS AND THE FROGS
THE LION AND THE MOUSE
THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
THE FROG AND THE OX
THE CAT, THE MONKEY, AND THE CHESTNUTS
THE COUNTRY MAID AND HER MILKPAIL
THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
THE VAIN JACKDAW
THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL
THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
THE CROW AND THE PITCHER
THE MAN, HIS SON, AND HIS ASS
FABLES OF INDIA
ADAPTED BY P. V. RAMASWAMI RAJU
THE CAMEL AND THE PIG
THE MAN AND HIS PIECE OF CLOTH
THE SEA, THE FOX, AND THE WOLF
THE BIRDS AND THE LIME
THE RAVEN AND THE CATTLE
TINSEL AND LIGHTNING
THE ASS AND THE WATCH-DOG
THE LARK AND ITS YOUNG ONES
THE TWO GEMS
FAIRY TALES AND LAUGHTER STORIES
SCANDINAVIAN STORIES
THE HARDY TIN SOLDIER
THE FIR TREE
THE DARNING-NEEDLE
THUMBELINA
THE TINDER-BOX
BOOTS AND HIS BROTHERS
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE
BUTTERCUP
GERMAN STORIES
SEVEN AT ONE BLOW
ONE EYE, TWO EYES, THREE EYES
THE MUSICIANS OF BREMEN
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
LITTLE SNOW-WHITE
THE GOOSE-GIRL
THE GOLDEN BIRD
FRENCH STORIES
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
THE WHITE CAT
THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS
TOADS AND DIAMONDS
ENGLISH STORIES
THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB
JACK THE GIANT-KILLER
THE THREE SILLIES
CELTIC STORIES
KING O'TOOLE AND HIS GOOSE
THE HAUGHTY PRINCESS
JACK AND HIS MASTER
HUDDEN AND DUDDEN AND DONALD O'NEARY
CONNLA OF THE GOLDEN HAIR AND THE FAIRY MAIDEN
ITALIAN STORIES
THE FOX AND THE CAT
JAPANESE STORIES
THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE
THE ACCOMPLISHED AND LUCKY TEAKETTLE
THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW
BATTLE OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB
MOMOTARO, OR LITTLE PEACHLING
URASCHIMA TARO AND THE TURTLE
EAST INDIAN STORIES
THE SON OF SEVEN QUEENS
WHO KILLED THE OTTER'S BABIES
THE ALLIGATOR AND THE JACKAL
THE FARMER AND THE MONEY-LENDER
TIT FOR TAT
SINGH RAJAH AND THE CUNNING LITTLE JACKALS
AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES
THE WHITE STONE CANOE
THE MAIDEN WHO LOVED A FISH
THE STAR WIFE
ARABIAN STORIES
THE STORY OF CALIPH STORK
PERSEVERE AND PROSPER
CHINESE STORIES
THE MOST FRUGAL OF MEN
THE MOON-CAKE
THE LADLE THAT FELL FROM THE MOON
THE YOUNG HEAD OF THE FAMILY
A DREADFUL BOAR
RUSSIAN STORIES
KING KOJATA
THE STORY OF KING FROST
TALES FOR TINY TOTS
TELL US A TALE
THE GREEDY BROWNIE
THE FAIRIES' PASSAGE
THE WORLD
FANCIFUL STORIES
WHITE MAGIC
THE BROWNIES
THE STORY OF PETER PAN
SIR LARK AND KING SUN
THE IMPS IN THE HEAVENLY MEADOW