SECTION XII. HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX
A HOME READING LIST
Children are such omnivorous readers that teachers and parents are constantly at their wit's end, not only in naming enough books to supply their demands, but in grouping these books according to the order of difficulty. Most public libraries can furnish such lists based upon their experience with children. In fact no modern public library can carry on its work successfully without an especially prepared librarian in charge of the books for children. The arrangement of any list by grades must at best be only approximate, but if done in the light of a wide experience may be of the greatest practical help to the young teacher or to the parent. The following list is one issued by the Chicago Public Library, and is used here through the great kindness of Miss Adah F. Whitcomb, supervisor of the children's room and director of the training class. Any well-selected collection for children will contain a large proportion of these titles, and the list is extended enough and varied enough to furnish attractive reading material for any young person. At need it may be supplemented by the more elaborate lists found in some of the guides mentioned in the General Bibliography ([p. 2]).
FIRST GRADE
Banta, N. Moore, and Benson, Alpha B., Brownie Primer.
Blaisdell, Mary Frances, Mother Goose Children.
Brooke, Leonard Leslie, [Johnny Crow's Garden.]
----, [Johnny Crow's Party.]
Buffum, Katharine G., Mother Goose in Silhouettes.
Craik, Georgiana Marion, So-fat and Mew-mew.