The third class are books for older children who can read well enough to peruse them alone; but, if the mother will take time to read them before giving them to the child, she will strengthen the bonds of intellectual sympathy between herself and him.
LIST No. 1.
FOR CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OF AGE.
- Mother-play and Nursery Song, by Frederick Froebel.
- Nursery Finger Plays, by Emile Poulsson.
- Mother Goose, in one syllable.
- Songs for Little Ones, by Eleanor Smith.
- Æsop's Fables, in one syllable, by Mary Mapes Dodge.
- Boley's Own Æsop; illustrated by Walter Crane.
- Baby World, by Mary Mapes Dodge.
- Rhymes and Jingles.
- Little People of the Air, by Olive Thorne Miller.
- Nonsense Book, by Edward Sears.
LIST No. 2.
FOR CHILDREN FROM SIX TO EIGHT YEARS OF AGE.
- Doll World, by Mrs. O. Reilly.
- Sparrow the Tramp, by Wesselhoeft.
- The Joyous Story of Toto, by L. E. Richards.
- Doings of the Bodley Family, by H. E. Scudder.
- Bodleys Telling Stories, by H. E. Scudder.
- The Bird's Christmas Carol, by K. D. Wiggin.
- Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, translated by H. S. Brackstad.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
- Bible Stories from the Old Testament, by Richard G. Moulton.
- Moon Folks, by Jane Austin.
- Mopsa the Fairy, by Ingelow.
- Evenings at Home, by Barbould and Aiken.
- Posies for Children, by Anna Lowell.
- Shanny and Light House.
LIST No. 3.
STORY-BOOKS.—FOR CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF EIGHT AND FOURTEEN.
- Seven Little Sisters, by Miss Jane Andrews.
- Each and All, by Miss Jane Andrews.
- Ten Little Boys on the Way from Long Ago to Now, by Miss Jane Andrews.
- Story of a Short Life, by Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing.
- Mary's Meadow, by Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing.
- Jackanapes, by Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing.
- Dandelion Clocks, by Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing.
- The Wonder Book, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; illustrated by Howard Pyle.
- Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; illustrated by Howard Pyle.
- True Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Fairy Tales, by Jean Macé.
- Grimm's Household Tales.
- Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen.
- Two Grey Girls, by Ellen Haile.
- Three Brown Boys, by Ellen Haile.
- Chivalric Days.
- Robinson Crusoe, by De Foe.
- Hans Brinker, by Mary Mapes Dodge.
- Arabian Nights; illustrated by A. H. Houghton.
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; illustrated by John Flaxman.
- Shakespeare's Tempest and Two Gentlemen of Verona; illustrated by Walter Crane.
- Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Swift; illustrated by Gordon Browne.
- Legends of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; illustrated by A. H. Houghton.
- Christmas Stories, by Dickens; illustrated by E. A. Abbey.
- Child's Dream of a Star, by Dickens.
- Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley.
- A Child Garden of Verse, by Robert Louis Stevenson; illustrated by Charles Robinson.
- The Boy with an Idea, Putnam & Sons, publishers.
- Young Merchants, Putnam & Sons, publishers.
- Boy Engineer, Putnam & Sons, publishers.
- Story of the Nations (8 vols.), Putnam & Sons, publishers.
- Adventures of Ulysses, by Charles Lamb.
- Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb.
- Stories from Greek Tragedians, by Rev. A. J. Church.
- The Golden Age, by James Baldwin.
- The Vision of Dante, by Elizabeth Harrison; illustrated by Walter Crane.
- Æsop's Fables (without the moral explanations attached).
- Swiss Family Robinson.
- The Lame Prince, by Miss Mulock.
- Parables from Nature, by Margaret Gattey.
- Child Life, by J. G. Whittier.
- Child's History of England, by Charles Dickens.
- In Storyland, by Elizabeth Harrison.
- Bible Stories from the New Testament, by Richard G. Moulton.
- Nonsense Books, by Edward Lear.
- The Monkey that Would Not Kill, by Henry Drummond.
- The Heroes, by Charles Kingsley.
- At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald.
- Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris.
- Tom Brown at Rugby, by Thomas Hughes.
- Nehe, by Anna Pierpont Siviter; illustrated by Chase Emerson.
- The Princess Story Book.
- The Cruise of the Cachalot, by Frank Bullen.
- The American Boys' Handy Book, by D. C. Beard.
- The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling.