THE CONTENTS

SECTION I
PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION
General Bibliography[2]
The Preface[5]
General Introduction[7]
1.Literature for Children[7]
2.Literature in the Grades[8]
3.Story-Telling and Dramatization[10]
4.Courses of Study[13]

SECTION II
MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Bibliography[18]
Introductory[19]
Mother Goose (Shorter rhymes):
1.A cat came fiddling out of a barn[23]
2.A diller, a dollar[23]
3.As I was going to St. Ives[23]
4.As I was going up Pippen Hill[23]
5.As I went to Bonner[23]
6.As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks[23]
7.A swarm of bees in May[23]
8.Baa, baa, black sheep[23]
9.Barber, barber, shave a pig[23]
10.Birds of a feather flock together[23]
11.Bless you, bless you, burnie bee[23]
12.Bobby Shafto's gone to sea[24]
13.Bow, wow, wow[24]
14.Bye, baby bunting[24]
15.Come when you're called[24]
16.Cross patch[24]
17.Curly locks, curly locks[24]
18.Dance, little baby[24]
19.Diddle, diddle, dumpling[24]
20.Ding, dong, bell[24]
21.Doctor Foster[24]
22.Eggs, butter, cheese, bread[24]
23.For every evil under the sun[24]
24.Four-and-twenty tailors[25]
25.Great A, little a[25]
26.Hark, hark[25]
27.Here sits the Lord Mayor[25]
28.Here we go up, up, up[25]
29.Hey! diddle, diddle[25]
30.Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7[25]
31.Higgledy, Piggledy[25]
32.Hickory, dickory, dock[25]
33.Hogs in the garden[25]
34.Hot-cross buns[26]
35.Hub a dub dub[26]
36.Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall[26]
37.If all the sea were one sea[26]
38.If all the world was apple-pie[26]
39.If I'd as much money as I could spend[26]
40.If "ifs" and "ands"[26]
41.If wishes were horses[26]
42.I had a little pony[26]
43.I had a little hobby horse[26]
44.I have a little sister[27]
45.I'll tell you a story[27]
46.In marble walls as white as milk[27]
47.I went up one pair of stairs[27]
48.Jack and Jill went up the hill[27]
49.Jack be nimble[27]
50.Jack Sprat could eat no fat[27]
51.Knock at the door[27]
52.Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home[27]
53.Little boy blue, come blow your horn[27]
54.Little girl, little girl, where have you been[27]
55.Little Jack Horner[28]
56.Little Jack Jingle[28]
57.Little Johnny Pringle[28]
58.Little Miss Muffet[28]
59.Little Nancy Etticoat[28]
60.Little Robin Redbreast[28]
61.Little Tommy Tucker[28]
62.Long legs, crooked thighs[28]
63.Lucy Locket lost her pocket[28]
64.Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John[28]
65.Mistress Mary, quite contrary[28]
66.Multiplication is vexation[28]
67.Needles and pins[29]
68.Old King Cole[29]
69.Once I saw a little bird[29]
70.One for the money[29]
71.One misty, moisty morning[29]
72.1, 2, 3, 4, 5[29]
73.One, two[29]
74.Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man[29]
75.Pease-porridge hot[29]
76.Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater[30]
77.Peter Piper picked a peck[30]
78.Poor old Robinson Crusoe[30]
79.Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been[30]
80.Pussy sits beside the fire[30]
81.Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross[30]
82.Ride, baby, ride[30]
83.Rock-a-bye, baby[30]
84.Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green[30]
85.See a pin and pick it up[30]
86.See, saw, sacradown[31]
87.Shoe the little horse[31]
88.Sing a song of sixpence[31]
89.Star light, star bright[31]
90.The King of France went up the hill[31]
91.The lion and the unicorn[31]
92.The man in the moon[31]
93.The north wind doth blow[31]
94.The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts[31]
95.There was a crooked man[31]
96.There was a little boy went into a barn[32]
97.There was a man and he had naught[32]
98.There was a man in our town[32]
99.There was an old man[32]
100.There was an old woman, and what do you think[32]
101.There was an old woman lived under a hill[32]
102.There was an old woman of Leeds[32]
103.There was an old woman of Norwich[32]
104.There was an old woman tossed up in a basket[32]
105.There was an old woman who lived in a shoe[33]
106.There was an owl lived in an oak[33]
107.This is the way the ladies ride[33]
108.This little pig went to market[33]
109.Three blind mice[33]
110.Three wise men of Gotham[33]
111.To market, to market, to buy a fat pig[33]
112.Tom, Tom, the piper's son[33]
113.Two-legs sat upon three-legs[33]
114.When a twister a-twisting[34]
115."Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?"[34]
Wilhelmina Seegmiller
116.Milkweed Seeds[34]
117.An Anniversary[34]
118.Twink! twink![34]
Mother Goose (Longer rhymes)
119.A Was an Apple-Pie[34]
120.Tom Thumb's Alphabet[35]
121.Where Are You Going[35]
122.Molly and I[35]
123.London Bridge[36]
124.I Saw a Ship[36]
125.There Was an Old Woman[36]
126.Little Bo-Peep[37]
127.Cock a Doodle Doo[37]
128.Three Jovial Huntsmen[37]
129.There Was a Little Man[37]
130.Taffy[38]
131.Simple Simon[38]
132.A Farmer Went Trotting[38]
133.Tom the Piper's Son[38]
134.When I Was a Little Boy[39]
135.The Babes in the Wood[39]
136.The Fox and His Wife[40]
137.For Want of a Nail[40]
138.A Man of Words[40]
139.Jemima[41]
140.Mother Hubbard and Her Dog[41]
141.The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren[42]
142.The Burial of Poor Cock Robin[44]
143.Dame Wiggins of Lee, and Her Seven Wonderful Cats[45]
144.This Is the House That Jack Built[47]
145.The Egg in the Nest[49]
146.Change About[49]

SECTION III
FAIRY STORIES—TRADITIONAL TALES
Bibliography[52]
Introductory[53]
English:
147.The Old Woman and Her Pig[56]
148.Henny-Penny[58]
149.Teeny-Tiny[59]
150.The Cat and the Mouse[60]
151.The Story of the Three Little Pigs[61]
152.Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse[63]
153.The Story of the Three Bears[64]
154.The Three Sillies[67]
155.Lazy Jack[69]
156.The Story of Mr. Vinegar[71]
157.Jack and the Beanstalk[73]
158.Tom Thumb[79]
159.Whittington and His Cat[84]
160.Tom Tit Tot[89]
French:
161.Little Red Riding Hood[92]
162.True History of Little Golden Hood[94]
163.Puss in Boots[97]
164.Toads and Diamonds[100]
165.Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper[102]
166.Drakestail[106]
167.Beauty and the Beast[110]
Norwegian:
168.Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed[122]
169.The Three Billy-Goats Gruff[123]
170.The Husband Who Was to Mind the House[124]
171.Boots and His Brothers[125]
172.The Quern at the Bottom of the Sea[128]
German:
173.The Traveling Musicians[131]
174.The Blue Light[134]
175.The Elves and the Shoemaker[136]
176.The Fisherman and His Wife[138]
177.Rose-Bud[142]
178.Rumpelstiltskin[144]
179.Snow-White and Rose-Red[146]
Indian:
180.The Lambikin[150]
181.Tit for Tat[151]
182.The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal[152]
183.Pride Goeth before a Fall[154]
Japanese:
184.The Mirror of Matsuyama[156]
185.The Tongue-Cut Sparrow[158]
Slavic:
186.The Straw Ox[160]
Irish:
187.Connla and the Fairy Maiden[162]
188.The Horned Women[164]
189.King O'Toole and His Goose[165]

SECTION IV
FAIRY STORIES—MODERN FANTASTIC TALES
Bibliography[170]
Introductory[171]
Abram S. Isaacs
190.A Four-Leaved Clover[174]
I.The Rabbi and the Diadem[174]
II.Friendship[175]
III.True Charity[175]
IV.An Eastern Garden[176]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
191.The Lord Helpeth Man and Beast[177]
Hans Christian Andersen
192.The Real Princess[179]
193.The Emperor's New Clothes[180]
194.The Nightingale[183]
195.The Fir Tree[190]
196.The Tinder Box[195]
197.The Hardy Tin Soldier[200]
198.The Ugly Duckling[203]
Frances Browne
199.The Story of Fairyfoot[209]
Oscar Wilde
200.The Happy Prince[217]
Raymond MacDonald Alden
201.The Knights of the Silver Shield[223]
Jean Ingelow
202.The Prince's Dream[227]
Frank R. Stockton
203.Old Pipes and the Dryad[233]
John Ruskin
204.The King of the Golden River[245]

SECTION V
FABLES AND SYMBOLIC STORIES
Bibliography[262]
Introductory[263]
Æsop
205.The Shepherd's Boy[266]
206.The Lion and the Mouse[266]
207.The Crow and the Pitcher[266]
208.The Frog and the Ox[267]
209.The Frogs Desiring a King[267]
210.The Field Mouse and the Town Mouse[268]
Christina G. Rossetti
211.The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse[268]
Horace
212.The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse[268]
Æsop
213.Androcles[269]
Thomas Day
214.Androcles and the Lion[270]
Æsop
215.The Wind and the Sun[272]
216.The Goose with the Golden Eggs[272]
La Fontaine
217.The Hen with the Golden Eggs[272]
Æsop
218.The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing[273]
219.The Hare and the Tortoise[273]
220.The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass[274]
221.The Travelers and the Bear[274]
222.The Lark and Her Young Ones[275]
223.The Old Man and His Sons[275]
224.The Fox and the Grapes[276]
225.The Widow and the Hen[276]
226.The Kid and the Wolf[276]
227.The Man and the Satyr[276]
228.The Dog and the Shadow[276]
229.The Swallow and the Raven[276]
230.Mercury and the Woodman[276]
231.The Mice in Council[277]
232.The Mountebank and Countryman[277]
233.The Milkmaid and Her Pail[278]
La Fontaine
234.The Dairywoman and the Pot of Milk[278]
From "The Arabian Nights"
235.The Story of Alnaschar[279]
Bidpai (Indian Fables)
236.The Camel and the Pig[280]
237.The Ass in the Lion's Skin[281]
238.The Talkative Tortoise[282]
239.A Lion Tricked by a Rabbit[283]
Marie de France
240.The Cock and the Fox[284]
La Fontaine
241.The Grasshopper and the Ant[284]
242.The Cock, the Cat, and the Young Mouse[285]
John Gay
243.The Hare with Many Friends[286]
Tomas Yriarte
244.The Musical Ass[287]
Ivan Krylov
245.The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab[287]
From the Bible
246.The Bramble Is Made King[288]
247.The Good Samaritan[289]
248.The Prodigal Son[289]
Henry Ward Beecher
249.The Anxious Leaf[290]
Benjamin Franklin
250.The Whistle[291]
251.The Ephemera[292]
Joseph Addison
252.The Vision of Mirzah[294]
Jane Taylor
253.The Discontented Pendulum[297]
Leo Tolstoi
254.Croesus and Solon[299]

SECTION VI
MYTHS
Bibliography[302]
Introductory[303]
Greek and Roman:
Grace H. Kupfer
255.A Story of the Springtime[306]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
256.The Paradise of Children[309]
257.The Miraculous Pitcher[319]
R. E. Francillon
258.The Narcissus[330]
259.The Apple of Discord[332]
Josephine P. Peabody
260.Icarus and Daedalus[335]
261.Admetus and the Shepherd[337]
Thomas Bulfinch
262.Midas[338]
Charles Mills Gayley
263.Phaëthon[340]
Norse:
Thomas Bulfinch
264.Thor's Visit to Jötunheim[343]
Hamilton Wright Mabie
265.Odin's Search for Wisdom[348]
Ethel M. Wilmot-Buxton
266.How the Fenris Wolf was Chained[351]
Anna and Eliza Keary
267.Frey[354]
Hamilton Wright Mabie
268.The Death of Balder[360]

SECTION VII
POETRY
Bibliography[368]
Introductory[369]
Eliza Lee Follen
269.The Three Little Kittens[371]
270.The Moon[371]
271.Runaway Brook[372]
272.Ding Dong! Ding Dong![372]
Elizabeth Prentiss
273.The Little Kitty[372]
Sara J. Hale
274.Mary Had a Little Lamb[372]
Theodore Tilton
275.Baby Bye[373]
Lucy Larcom
276.The Brown Thrush[374]
Lydia Maria Child
277.Thanksgiving Day[375]
278.Who Stole the Bird's Nest[375]
"Susan Coolidge"
279.How the Leaves Came Down[377]
Phoebe Cary
280.They Didn't Think[377]
281.The Leak in the Dike[378]
Robert Louis Stevenson
282.Whole Duty of Children[381]
283.The Cow[381]
284.Time to Rise[381]
285.Rain[381]
286.A Good Play[382]
287.The Lamplighter[382]
288.The Land of Nod[382]
289.The Land of Story-Books[382]
290.My Bed Is a Boat[383]
291.My Shadow[383]
292.The Swing[383]
293.Where Go the Boats[384]
294.The Wind[384]
295.Windy Nights[384]
Frank Dempster Sherman
296.Spinning Top[384]
297.Flying Kite[385]
298.King Bell[385]
299.Daisies[385]
Eugene Field
300.Wynken, Blynken, and Nod[385]
301.The Sugar-Plum Tree[386]
302.The Duel[387]
James Whitcomb Riley
303.The Treasures of the Wise Man[387]
304.The Circus-Day Parade[388]
305.The Raggedy Man[389]
James Hogg
306.A Boy's Song[389]
Mary Howitt
307.The Spider and the Fly[390]
William Howitt
308.The Wind in a Frolic[391]
Ann Taylor
309.The Cow[392]
310.Meddlesome Matty[392]
Jane Taylor
311."I Like Little Pussy"[393]
312.The Star[394]
Christina G. Rossetti
313.Seldom or Never[394]
314.An Emerald Is as Green as Grass[394]
315.Boats Sail on the Rivers[394]
316.A Diamond or a Coal?[395]
317.The Swallow[395]
318.Who Has Seen the Wind?[395]
319.Milking Time[395]
William Brighty Rands
320.The Peddler's Caravan[395]
321.The Wonderful World[396]
Richard Monckton Milnes
322.Good-Night and Good-Morning[396]
William Roscoe
323.The Butterfly's Ball[397]
Author Unknown
324.Can You?[398]
Robert Browning
325.Pippa's Song[399]
Charles Mackay
326.Little and Great[399]
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
327.Casabianca[399]
William Blake
328.Three Things to Remember[400]
329.The Lamb[401]
330.The Shepherd[401]
331.The Tiger[401]
332.The Piper[401]
Eliza Cook
333.Try Again[402]
Edward Lear
334.The Owl and the Pussy-Cat[403]
335.The Table and the Chair[404]
336.The Pobble Who Has No Toes[404]
"Lewis Carroll"
337.The Walrus and the Carpenter[405]
338.A Strange Wild Song[406]
Isaac Watts
339.Against Idleness and Mischief[407]
340.Famous Passages from Dr. Watts[408]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
341.The Skeleton in Armor[408]
342.The Day Is Done[410]
343.A Psalm of Life[411]
Charles Kingsley
344.The Three Fishers[412]
345.The Sands of Dee[412]
Alfred Tennyson
346."What Does Little Birdie Say?"[413]
347.Sweet and Low[413]
348.The Poet's Song[413]
349.Crossing the Bar[414]
Leigh Hunt
350.Abou Ben Adhem[414]
Joaquin Miller
351.For Those Who Fail[415]
Edgar Allan Poe
352.Eldorado[415]
George Gordon, Lord Byron
353.The Destruction of Sennacherib[416]
William Cullen Bryant
354.To a Waterfowl[416]
355.The Planting of the Apple-Tree[417]
Thomas Edward Brown
356.My Garden[418]
William Wordsworth
357.Daffodils[419]
358.The Solitary Reaper[419]
Caroline Elizabeth Norton
359.The Arab to His Favorite Steed[420]
Robert Southey
360.The Inchcape Rock[421]
William Shakespeare
361.Over Hill, Over Dale[423]
362.A Fairy Scene in a Wood[423]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
363.Fable[424]
364.Concord Hymn[424]
Sir Walter Scott
365.Breathes There the Man[424]
Oliver Wendell Holmes
366.Old Ironsides[425]
William Collins
367.How Sleep the Brave[425]
Author Unknown
368.The Ballad of Nathan Hale[425]
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle
369.The Red Thread of Honor[427]
Rudyard Kipling
370.Recessional[428]
William Ernest Henley
371.Invictus[429]
James Russell Lowell
372.The Falcon[429]
373.The Shepherd of King Admetus[430]
Sir William Schenck Gilbert
374.The Yarn of the Nancy Bell[430]
John Townsend Trowbridge
375.Darius Green and His Flying Machine[432]
William Robert Spencer
376.Beth Gêlert[436]
Author Unknown
377.King John and the Abbot of Canterbury[437]

SECTION VIII
REALISTIC STORIES
Bibliography[442]
Introductory[443]
Oliver Goldsmith
378.The Renowned History of Little Goody Two-Shoes[445]
Dr. John Aikin and Mrs. Letitia Barbauld
379.Eyes, and No Eyes[451]
Thomas Day
380.The Good-Natured Little Boy[456]
Maria Edgeworth
381.Waste Not, Want Not[458]
Juliana Horatia Ewing
382.Jackanapes[478]
Henry Seidel Canby
383.Betty's Ride[496]
Charles Major
384.The Big Bear[500]
"O. Henry"
385.The Gift of the Magi[505]

SECTION IX
NATURE LITERATURE
Bibliography[510]
Introductory[511]
Beatrix Potter
386.The Tale of Peter Rabbit[513]
Thornton Waldo Burgess
387.Johnny Chuck Finds the Best Thing in the World[514]
Albert Bigelow Paine
388.Mr. 'Possum's Sick Spell[516]
Dallas Lore Sharp
389.Wild Life in the Farm-Yard[520]
Vernon L. Kellogg
390.The Vendetta[524]
Sewell Ford
391.Pasha, the Son of Selim[527]
"Ouida" (Louisa de la Ramée)
392.Moufflou[534]
Olive Thorne Miller
393.Bird Habits: I. Where He Sleeps II. His Travels[548]
Ernest Thompson Seton
394.The Poacher and the Silver Fox[551]
David Starr Jordan
395.The Story of a Salmon[556]
Rudyard Kipling
396.Moti Guj—Mutineer[562]
Charles G. D. Roberts
397.Last Bull[566]

SECTION X
ROMANCE CYCLES AND LEGEND
Bibliography[576]
Introductory[577]
From Arabian Nights
398.Ali Baba, and the Forty Thieves[579]
"Felix Summerley"
Reynard the Fox
399.How Bruin the Bear Sped with Reynard the Fox[586]
400.The Battle Between the Fox and the Wolf[591]
Sir Thomas Malory
King Arthur and His Round Table
401.How Arthur Became King[594]
402.A Tourney with the French[597]
403.Adventures of Arthur[598]
Maude Radford Warren
404.Arthur and Sir Accalon[603]
Cervantes-Saavedra, Miguel de
405-411.Stories from Don Quixote
I.Dreams and Shadows[606]
II.Preparing for the Quest[608]
III.The Quest Begins[610]
IV.The Knightly Vigil[613]
V.On Honor's Field[615]
VI.The Return Home[617]
VII.The Battle with the Windmills[618]
Horace E. Scudder
412.The Proud King[620]
Eva March Tappan
413.Robin and the Merry Little Old Woman[623]
Author Unknown
414.Allen-a-Dale[628]

SECTION XI
BIOGRAPHY AND HERO STORIES
Bibliography[632]
Introductory[633]
Elbridge S. Brooks
415.How Columbus Got His Ships[635]
Horace E. Scudder
416.The Boyhood of Washington[642]
Benjamin Franklin
417.The Autobiography[645]
Helen Nicolay
418.Lincoln's Early Days[655]
Anna Howard Shaw
419.In the Western Wilderness[662]
Charlotte M. Yonge
420.The Pass of Thermopylae[671]

SECTION XII
HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX
Home Reading Lists by Grades[679]
General Index[687]

SECTION I

PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION

SELECTED GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY