The Wide Awake Third Reader

The selections, “Little Grandmother’s Shoes,” “Children of a Sunny Land,” “The Little Plant,” “The Little Goatherds,” “Great-Great-Grandma’s Christmas in England,” “The Whipping Boy,” “The Christmas Spruce Tree,” “The Eve of St. Nicholas,” “The Little Turkeys,” “The Children of Armenia,” “Ahmow,—the Wolf,” “The Emperor and the Peasant,” and “The Christmas Monks,” are used by arrangement with the Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company.

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All the Children of all the World		[9]
The Song Sparrow’s Work	Etta Austin Blaisdell	[15]
Dutch Children		[20]
A Little Dutch Girl	Edith Colby Banfield	[25]
The Great Feast	Laura E. Richards	[26]
Little Grandmother’s Shoes		[30]
Little-Folk Land	Edith Colby Banfield	[33]
Children of a Sunny Land
A Strange Milk Wagon		[35]
A Ride in a Chair		[36]
The Carnival		[39]
The Little Plant	Anna von Rydingsvärd	[42]
Two Ways	Laura E. Richards	[44]
A Song in the Woods	Louise C. Moulton	[46]
How the Corn Grew	Julia Dalrymple	[47]
“Do You Know?”	Edith Colby Banfield	[51]
The Little Goatherds		[52]
Swiss Children		[56]
Lullaby-Land	Edith Colby Banfield	[60]
The Stone Blocks	Laura E. Richards	[61]
Great-Great-Grandma’s Christmas in England		[63]
The Whipping Boy		[69]
The Christmas Spruce Tree	Anna von Rydingsvärd	[72]
A Rose	Emily Dickinson	[76]
The Eve of St. Nicholas		[77]
Robin Redbreast	William Allingham	[81]
“The Little Turkeys”
In School		[83]
At Home		[88]
“Gillyflower Gentleman”	Laura E. Richards	[91]
The Ruler	Laura E. Richards	[93]
The Moon	Edith Colby Banfield	[95]
The Children of Armenia		[96]
Armenian Homes		[100]
The Nest	Helen Hunt Jackson	[104]
Ahmow—The Wolf	Frederick Schwatka	[106]
Eskimo Children		[113]
The Dream-Ship	Blanche M. Channing	[117]
A Trip to Japan	Charlotte Chaffee Gibson	[118]
Urashima	Charlotte Chaffee Gibson	[125]
A Day	Emily Dickinson	[130]
The Ants’ Monday Dinner	Helen Hunt Jackson	[131]
My Ant’s Cow	Helen Hunt Jackson	[139]
Colorado Snow-Birds	Helen Hunt Jackson	[148]
The Peterkins’ Excursion after Maple Syrup	Lucretia P. Hale	[153]
The Grass	Emily Dickinson	[164]
Sunset	Emily Dickinson	[165]
The Baby Squirrels	Julia A. Schwartz	[166]
The Baby that Sleeps in a Pocket	Julia A. Schwartz	[180]
The Emperor and the Peasant	Anna von Rydingsvärd	[194]
The Christmas Monks	Mary E. Wilkins
The Garden		[203]
Peter and the Prince		[206]
The Prettiest Doll		[210]
Christmas Gifts		[214]

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