FIRST READER

BY
MAUD SUMMERS
ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY
LUCY FITCH PERKINS
AND
MARION L. MAHONY

FRANK D. BEATTYS AND COMPANY
NEW YORK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to the following publishers and authors for permission to reprint poems and to adapt stories on which they hold copyright:

Charles Scribner’s Sons:

“The Swing” and “At the Seaside” by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Educational Publishing Company:

“The Kind Old Oak” (Adapted) from “Little Flower Folks.”

Clayton F. Summy Company:

“The Song of the Mill-Stream” (Adapted) by Mildred and Patty Hill, from “Songs and Stories for the Kindergarten.”

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company:

“The Little Plant” by Emilie Poulsson from “Finger Plays.”

Kindergarten Magazine:

“The Little Red Apple” (Adapted).

Copyright, 1908, by
Frank D. Beattys and Company
New York

CONTENTS

PAGE
[The Little Red Apple][5]
[The Wind and the Sun][8]
[The Wind][10]
[Something to Tell][11]
[Mother Tree and the Leaves][12]
[The Little Pine Tree][15]
[The Ant and the Dove][20]
[Stop, Stop, Pretty Water][23]
[The Brook][24]
[The Three Bears][26]
[The Fox and the Crow][34]
[Chicken Little][35]
[The Swing][43]
[The Kind Old Oak][44]
[In the Woods][47]
[The Honest Woodman][48]
[An Old Rhyme][53]
[At the Seaside][54]
[Little Red Riding Hood][55]
[The Song of the Mill-Stream][63]
[The Sawmill][64]
[The Lion and the Mouse][66]
[The Three Little Pigs][69]
[The Boy and the Nuts][77]
[The New Moon][78]
[The Carpenter][80]
[Something to Tell][82]
[The Gingerbread Boy][83]
[The City Mouse and the Country Mouse][89]
[The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse][93]
[The Miner][94]
[The Engine][96]
[Making Maple Sugar][97]
[The Woodpecker][102]
[Little Goody Twoshoes][103]
[The Bramble Bush and the Lambs][109]
[Mary’s Little Lamb][112]
[Something to Tell][114]
[The Pet Lamb][115]
[The House in the Wood][118]
[The Little Plant][128]
[Work and Play][130]
[The Three Brothers][137]
[The Lark and Her Little Ones][147]
[Morning Song][150]
[Alphabet][152]
[Word List][153]

“WHEN the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guarantee of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious.”

John Dewey.