Children's Literature / A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

by Charles Madison Curry; Erle Elsworth Clippinger

I. GENERAL COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Tappan, Eva March, [The Children's Hour]. 10 vols.

Neilson, William Patten, and others, [The Junior Classics]. 10 vols.

Sylvester, Charles H., [Journeys through Bookland]. 10 vols.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, and others, [The Young Folks' Library]. 30 vols.

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, After School Library. 12 vols.

Scudder, Horace E., The Children's Book. [Best single-volume collection for early grades.]

Barnes, Walter, [Types of Children's Literature].

II. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

Darton, F. J. Harvey, "Children's Books," in Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. XI, chap. xvi. [Best brief account of development in England. Elaborate bibliography.]