One to Two Years
Mother Goose:
Ride a Cock Horse
Jack and Jill
Humpty Dumpty
Hey Diddle Diddle
Baby Bunting
Rock-a-bye, Baby
Poems and Songs:
Sleep, Baby, Sleep
What does Little Birdie Say
Wee Willie Winkie (Brewer)
Hush, my Dear (Watts)
Stories:
Simple incidents of children, animals, birds
Folk Tales:
Three Bears
Old Woman and Her Pig
Two to Three Years
Mother Goose:
Little Boy Blue
Little Bo-peep
Little Tom Tucker
Little Miss Muffet
Pease Porridge Hot
Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Old Mother Hubbard
Cock Robin
Poetry:
Little Drops of Water
I Love Little Pussy
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
Lady Moon (Houghton)
Friendly Cow (Stevenson)
Little Lamb, Who Made Thee (Blake)
Folk and Fairy Tales:
Three Little Pigs
Henny Penny
Goody Two Shoes
Slovenly Peter
Elves and Shoemaker
Babes in the Woods
Greek Myths:
Apollo and his Sheep
Mercury
Norse Myths:
Thor and his Chariot
Frey and her Weaving
Bible Stories:
Moses in Bulrushes
Christ Child in Manger
Three to Four Years
Mother Goose:
Song of Sixpence
Lucy Locket
Old King Cole
Simple Simon
There Was a Crooked Man
If All the World Were Paper
The Man in the Moon
Three Little Kittens
Poetry:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
My Shadow (Stevenson)
The Baby (MacDonald)
Spring (Nash)
Owl and Pussy Cat (Lear)
The Jabberwocky (Dodgson)
Pied Piper (Browning)
How the Waters Come Down at Lodore (Southey)
Folk and Fairy Tales:
Tom Thumb
Sleeping Beauty
Jack and Beanstalk
Diamonds and Toads
Rose Red and Snow White
Jungle Books
Greek Myths:
Arachne
Latona and Frogs
King Midas
Narcissus
Phaëton
Norse Myths:
Thor and his Glove
Thor and his Hammer
Thor at Jotenheim
Bible Stories:
Jesus blessing little children
Jesus healing Jairus’ daughter
Garden of Eden
The Flood and the Ark
David and his Harp
Daniel
Elijah and Ravens
Four to Six Years
Mother Goose:
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
As I Was Going to St. Ives
When Good King Arthur Ruled this Land
Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid
Poetry:
Which Way Does the Wind Blow?
Robin Redbreast (Allingham)
The Fairies (Allingham)
Laughing Song (Blake)
The Year’s at the Spring (Browning)
Ariel’s Song (Shakespeare)
Come, Follow, Follow (Shakespeare)
Lullaby for Titania (Shakespeare)
Answer to Child’s Question (Coleridge)
Nonsense Songs (Lear)
Love Songs of Childhood (Field)
Book of Joyous Children (Riley)
Child’s Garden of Verses (Stevenson)
Hiawatha (Longfellow)
America
Biography, History and Travel:
Robinson Crusoe
Columbus’ Voyages
Mayflower and Pilgrims
Paul Revere
John Smith and Pocahontas
Betsy Ross and the flag
Stories from childhood of Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Edison
Mozart
Norse Myths:
Journey of Thor
Finding of the Hammer
Loki’s Tricks
Youth of Siegfried
Folk and Fairy Tales:
Dick Whittington
Ugly Duckling
Discontented Fir Tree
Epaminondas
Thumbelina
Beauty and Beast
Gulliver’s Travels
Just So Stories
Uncle Remus
King of Golden River
Fables:
Dog in Manger
Lion and Mouse
Hare and Tortoise
Bundle of Sticks
Ant and Grasshopper
Sun and Wind
Boy who cried “Wolf”
Greek Myths:
Ceres and Persephone
Philemon and Baucis
Orpheus and Eurydice
Io and the Gadfly
Pygmalion and Galatea
Ulysses
Callisto and Arcas
The Wooden Horse
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Vulcan
Bible Stories:
Creation Story
Child Samuel
Joseph and his Brethren
Children of Israel in Egypt
The Passover
Journey to the Promised Land
David and Goliath
Samson
Ruth
The Boy Jesus
Jesus feeding the Multitude
The Resurrection
Juveniles:
The Goops
Alice in Wonderland
Through a Looking Glass
Rip Van Winkle
Six to Nine Years
Poetry:
Piccola (Thaxter)
The Sandpiper (Thaxter)
Song of Spring (Hemans)
Pilgrim Fathers ”
Bugle Song (Tennyson)
Sweet and Low ”
The Brook ”
We are Seven (Wordsworth)
The Daffodils ”
My Heart Leaps Up (Wordsworth)
The Cloud (Shelley)
Ode to Skylark ”
The Children’s Hour (Longfellow)
Village Blacksmith (Longfellow)
Psalm of Life (Longfellow)
Building of Ship ”
Evangeline ”
Tales of Wayside Inn (Longfellow)
A Morning Song (Heywood)
Hark! Hark! the Lark (Shakespeare)
Indian Summer (Whittier)
Barefoot Boy ”
For a’ That (Burns)
Highland Mary (Burns)
Annie Laurie
Wind and Moon (Macdonald)
Old Oaken Bucket (Woodworth)
Robert of Lincoln (Bryant)
Vision of Sir Launfal (Lowell)
Lochinvar (Scott)
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
Folk and Fairy Tales:
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Jataka Tales
At Back of North Wind (Macdonald)
Arabian Nights
Greek Myths:
Labors of Hercules
Laocoön
The Odyssey
Tales from Ovid
Norse Myths:
Sigurd the Volsung (Morris)
Classic Tales: (selections)
Canterbury Tales
Fairie Queene
Tales from Shakespeare
Pilgrim’s Progress
Legends:
Beowulf
King Arthur
Robin Hood
American Indian Legends
Bible Stories:
Life of Jesus, including Crucifixion
Abraham
Jacob
Joseph
Moses
Joshua
David
Solomon
Daniel
Esther
Elijah
Paul
Biography, History, Travel, Science:
Local pioneer history
Pilgrim Fathers
William Penn
Washington
Lincoln
Significant historic tales from
England
Vikings
Pharaohs
Greek
Roman
Incidents from life of
Homer
Copernicus
Galileo
Caxton
Eli Whitney
Longfellow
Whittier
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Swiss Family Robinson
Darwin’s Voyage of Beagle
The Snow Baby (Peary)
Juveniles:
Pinocchio (Collodi)
Hans Brinker (Dodge)
Birds’ Christmas Carol (Wiggin)
Mrs. Wiggs (Rice)
Five Little Peppers (Sidney)