A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

Scudder, H.E. (Editor).

The Children's Book.
Houghton. 2.50

If a child could have but one story-book, a better choice could scarcely be made than this storehouse of fables, wonder tales, myths, songs, and ballads. Selections from Andersen, The Arabian Nights, Gulliver, and Munchausen, are included. There are many illustrations.

Trimmer, S. (K).

The History of the Robins.
Edited by E. E. Hale.
Heath. .20

Small people like to hear about this father and mother robin and their four babies.

Mrs. Sarah Trimmer ... was a woman of more than the average education and accomplishment of her day, and enjoyed the friendship of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and nearly all of the more celebrated English authors and painters of that time. She wrote a great many books.... They are now nearly all of them dead and forgotten; but one of them at least has lived, and has been the delight of thousands of children for over three-quarters of a century.--Introduction.

Wiggin, K. D. (S.), and N. A. Smith.