The Contents

A TEXTBOOK OF SOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER-TRAINING CLASSES EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES by

and

Erle Elsworth Clippinger

Professors of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
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Copyright, 1920, by
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Copyright, 1921, by
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SECTION I

PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION

General Bibliography

The Preface

General Introduction

1. Literature for Children

2. Literature in the Grades

3. Story-Telling and Dramatization

4. Courses of Study

SECTION II

MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES

Bibliography

Introductory

Mother Goose (Shorter rhymes):

1. A cat came fiddling out of a barn

2. A diller, a dollar

3. As I was going to St. Ives

4. As I was going up Pippen Hill

5. As I went to Bonner

6. As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks

7. A swarm of bees in May

8. Baa, baa, black sheep

9. Barber, barber, shave a pig

10. Birds of a feather flock together

11. Bless you, bless you, burnie bee

12. Bobby Shafto's gone to sea

13. Bow, wow, wow

14. Bye, baby bunting

15. Come when you're called

16. Cross patch

17. Curly locks, curly locks

18. Dance, little baby

19. Diddle, diddle, dumpling

20. Ding, dong, bell

21. Doctor Foster

22. Eggs, butter, cheese, bread

23. For every evil under the sun

24. Four-and-twenty tailors

25. Great A, little a

26. Hark, hark

27. Here sits the Lord Mayor

28. Here we go up, up, up

29. Hey! diddle, diddle

30. Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7

31. Higgledy, Piggledy

32. Hickory, dickory, dock

33. Hogs in the garden

34. Hot-cross buns

35. Hub a dub dub

36. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

37. If all the sea were one sea

38. If all the world was apple-pie

39. If I'd as much money as I could spend

40. If "ifs" and "ands"

41. If wishes were horses

42. I had a little pony

43. I had a little hobby horse

44. I have a little sister

45. I'll tell you a story

46. In marble walls as white as milk

47. I went up one pair of stairs

48. Jack and Jill went up the hill

49. Jack be nimble

50. Jack Sprat could eat no fat

51. Knock at the door

52. Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home

53. Little boy blue, come blow your horn

54. Little girl, little girl, where have you been

55. Little Jack Horner

56. Little Jack Jingle

57. Little Johnny Pringle

58. Little Miss Muffet

59. Little Nancy Etticoat

60. Little Robin Redbreast

61. Little Tommy Tucker

62. Long legs, crooked thighs

63. Lucy Locket lost her pocket

64. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

65. Mistress Mary, quite contrary

66. Multiplication is vexation

67. Needles and pins

68. Old King Cole

69. Once I saw a little bird

70. One for the money

71. One misty, moisty morning

72. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

73. One, two

74. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man

75. Pease-porridge hot

76. Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater

77. Peter Piper picked a peck

78. Poor old Robinson Crusoe

79. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been

80. Pussy sits beside the fire

81. Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross

82. Ride, baby, ride

83. Rock-a-bye, baby

84. Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green

85. See a pin and pick it up

86. See, saw, sacradown

87. Shoe the little horse

88. Sing a song of sixpence

89. Star light, star bright

90. The King of France went up the hill

91. The lion and the unicorn

92. The man in the moon

93. The north wind doth blow

94. The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts

95. There was a crooked man

96. There was a little boy went into a barn

97. There was a man and he had naught

98. There was a man in our town

99. There was an old man

100. There was an old woman, and what do you think

101. There was an old woman lived under a hill

102. There was an old woman of Leeds

103. There was an old woman of Norwich

104. There was an old woman tossed up in a basket

105. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

106. There was an owl lived in an oak

107. This is the way the ladies ride

108. This little pig went to market

109. Three blind mice

110. Three wise men of Gotham

111. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig

112. Tom, Tom, the piper's son

113. Two-legs sat upon three-legs

114. When a twister a-twisting

115. "Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?"

Wilhelmina Seegmiller

116. Milkweed Seeds

117. An Anniversary

118. Twink! twink!

Mother Goose (Longer rhymes)

119. A Was an Apple-Pie

120. Tom Thumb's Alphabet

121. Where Are You Going

122. Molly and I

123. London Bridge

124. I Saw a Ship

125. There Was an Old Woman

126. Little Bo-Peep

127. Cock a Doodle Doo

128. Three Jovial Huntsmen

129. There Was a Little Man

130. Taffy

131. Simple Simon

132. A Farmer Went Trotting

133. Tom the Piper's Son

134. When I Was a Little Boy

135. The Babes in the Wood

136. The Fox and His Wife

137. For Want of a Nail

138. A Man of Words

139. Jemima

140. Mother Hubbard and Her Dog

141. The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren

142. The Burial of Poor Cock Robin

143. Dame Wiggins of Lee, and Her Seven Wonderful Cats

144. This Is the House That Jack Built

145. The Egg in the Nest

146. Change About

SECTION III

FAIRY STORIES—TRADITIONAL TALES

Bibliography

Introductory

English:

147. The Old Woman and Her Pig

148. Henny-Penny

149. Teeny-Tiny

150. The Cat and the Mouse

151. The Story of the Three Little Pigs

152. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse

153. The Story of the Three Bears

154. The Three Sillies

155. Lazy Jack

156. The Story of Mr. Vinegar

157. Jack and the Beanstalk

158. Tom Thumb

159. Whittington and His Cat

160. Tom Tit Tot

French:

161. Little Red Riding Hood

162. True History of Little Golden Hood

163. Puss in Boots

164. Toads and Diamonds

165. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper

166. Drakestail

167. Beauty and the Beast

Norwegian:

168. Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed

169. The Three Billy-Goats Gruff

170. The Husband Who Was to Mind the House

171. Boots and His Brothers

172. The Quern at the Bottom of the Sea

German:

173. The Traveling Musicians

174. The Blue Light

175. The Elves and the Shoemaker

176. The Fisherman and His Wife

177. Rose-Bud

178. Rumpelstiltskin

179. Snow-White and Rose-Red

Indian:

180. The Lambikin

181. Tit for Tat

182. The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal

183. Pride Goeth before a Fall

Japanese:

184. The Mirror of Matsuyama

185. The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

Slavic:

186. The Straw Ox

Irish:

187. Connla and the Fairy Maiden

188. The Horned Women

189. King O'Toole and His Goose

SECTION IV

FAIRY STORIES—MODERN FANTASTIC TALES

Bibliography

Introductory

Abram S. Isaacs

190. A Four-Leaved Clover

I. The Rabbi and the Diadem

II. Friendship

III. True Charity

IV. An Eastern Garden

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

191. The Lord Helpeth Man and Beast

Hans Christian Andersen

192. The Real Princess

193. The Emperor's New Clothes

194. The Nightingale

195. The Fir Tree

196. The Tinder Box

197. The Hardy Tin Soldier

198. The Ugly Duckling

Frances Browne

199. The Story of Fairyfoot

Oscar Wilde

200. The Happy Prince

Raymond MacDonald Alden

201. The Knights of the Silver Shield

Jean Ingelow

202. The Prince's Dream

Frank R. Stockton

203. Old Pipes and the Dryad

John Ruskin

204. The King of the Golden River

SECTION V

FABLES AND SYMBOLIC STORIES

Bibliography

Introductory

Æsop

205. The Shepherd's Boy

206. The Lion and the Mouse

207. The Crow and the Pitcher

208. The Frog and the Ox

209. The Frogs Desiring a King

210. The Field Mouse and the Town Mouse

Christina G. Rossetti

211. The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse

Horace

212. The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse

Æsop

213. Androcles

Thomas Day

214. Androcles and the Lion

Æsop

215. The Wind and the Sun

216. The Goose with the Golden Eggs

La Fontaine

217. The Hen with the Golden Eggs

Æsop

218. The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

219. The Hare and the Tortoise

220. The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass

221. The Travelers and the Bear

222. The Lark and Her Young Ones

223. The Old Man and His Sons

224. The Fox and the Grapes

225. The Widow and the Hen

226. The Kid and the Wolf

227. The Man and the Satyr

228. The Dog and the Shadow

229. The Swallow and the Raven

230. Mercury and the Woodman

231. The Mice in Council

232. The Mountebank and Countryman

233. The Milkmaid and Her Pail

La Fontaine

234. The Dairywoman and the Pot of Milk

From "The Arabian Nights"

235. The Story of Alnaschar

Bidpai (Indian Fables)

236. The Camel and the Pig

237. The Ass in the Lion's Skin

238. The Talkative Tortoise

239. A Lion Tricked by a Rabbit

Marie de France

240. The Cock and the Fox

La Fontaine

241. The Grasshopper and the Ant

242. The Cock, the Cat, and the Young Mouse

John Gay

243. The Hare with Many Friends

Tomas Yriarte

244. The Musical Ass

Ivan Krylov

245. The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab

From the Bible

246. The Bramble Is Made King

247. The Good Samaritan

248. The Prodigal Son

Henry Ward Beecher

249. The Anxious Leaf

Benjamin Franklin

250. The Whistle

251. The Ephemera

Joseph Addison

252. The Vision of Mirzah

Jane Taylor

253. The Discontented Pendulum

Leo Tolstoi

254. Croesus and Solon

SECTION VI

MYTHS

Bibliography

Introductory

Greek and Roman:

Grace H. Kupfer

255. A Story of the Springtime

Nathaniel Hawthorne

256. The Paradise of Children

257. The Miraculous Pitcher

R. E. Francillon

258. The Narcissus

259. The Apple of Discord

Josephine P. Peabody

260. Icarus and Daedalus

261. Admetus and the Shepherd

Thomas Bulfinch

262. Midas

Charles Mills Gayley

263. Phaëthon

Norse:

Thomas Bulfinch

264. Thor's Visit to Jötunheim

Hamilton Wright Mabie

265. Odin's Search for Wisdom

Ethel M. Wilmot-Buxton

266. How the Fenris Wolf was Chained

Anna and Eliza Keary

267. Frey

Hamilton Wright Mabie

268. The Death of Balder

SECTION VII

POETRY

Bibliography

Introductory

Eliza Lee Follen

269. The Three Little Kittens

270. The Moon

271. Runaway Brook

272. Ding Dong! Ding Dong!

Elizabeth Prentiss

273. The Little Kitty

Sara J. Hale

274. Mary Had a Little Lamb

Theodore Tilton

275. Baby Bye

Lucy Larcom

276. The Brown Thrush

Lydia Maria Child

277. Thanksgiving Day

278. Who Stole the Bird's Nest

"Susan Coolidge"

279. How the Leaves Came Down

Phoebe Cary

280. They Didn't Think

281. The Leak in the Dike

Robert Louis Stevenson

282. Whole Duty of Children

283. The Cow

284. Time to Rise

285. Rain

286. A Good Play

287. The Lamplighter

288. The Land of Nod

289. The Land of Story-Books

290. My Bed Is a Boat

291. My Shadow

292. The Swing

293. Where Go the Boats

294. The Wind

295. Windy Nights

Frank Dempster Sherman

296. Spinning Top

297. Flying Kite

298. King Bell

299. Daisies

Eugene Field

300. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

301. The Sugar-Plum Tree

302. The Duel

James Whitcomb Riley

303. The Treasures of the Wise Man

304. The Circus-Day Parade

305. The Raggedy Man

James Hogg

306. A Boy's Song

Mary Howitt

307. The Spider and the Fly

William Howitt

308. The Wind in a Frolic

Ann Taylor

309. The Cow

310. Meddlesome Matty

Jane Taylor

311. "I Like Little Pussy"

312. The Star

Christina G. Rossetti

313. Seldom or Never

314. An Emerald Is as Green as Grass

315. Boats Sail on the Rivers

316. A Diamond or a Coal?

317. The Swallow

318. Who Has Seen the Wind?

319. Milking Time

William Brighty Rands

320. The Peddler's Caravan

321. The Wonderful World

Richard Monckton Milnes

322. Good-Night and Good-Morning

William Roscoe

323. The Butterfly's Ball

Author Unknown

324. Can You?

Robert Browning

325. Pippa's Song

Charles Mackay

326. Little and Great

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

327. Casabianca

William Blake

328. Three Things to Remember

329. The Lamb

330. The Shepherd

331. The Tiger

332. The Piper

Eliza Cook

333. Try Again

Edward Lear

334. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

335. The Table and the Chair

336. The Pobble Who Has No Toes

"Lewis Carroll"

337. The Walrus and the Carpenter

338. A Strange Wild Song

Isaac Watts

339. Against Idleness and Mischief

340. Famous Passages from Dr. Watts

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

341. The Skeleton in Armor

342. The Day Is Done

343. A Psalm of Life

Charles Kingsley

344. The Three Fishers

345. The Sands of Dee

Alfred Tennyson

346. "What Does Little Birdie Say?"

347. Sweet and Low

348. The Poet's Song

349. Crossing the Bar

Leigh Hunt

350. Abou Ben Adhem

Joaquin Miller

351. For Those Who Fail

Edgar Allan Poe

352. Eldorado

George Gordon, Lord Byron

353. The Destruction of Sennacherib

William Cullen Bryant

354. To a Waterfowl

355. The Planting of the Apple-Tree

Thomas Edward Brown

356. My Garden

William Wordsworth

357. Daffodils

358. The Solitary Reaper

Caroline Elizabeth Norton

359. The Arab to His Favorite Steed

Robert Southey

360. The Inchcape Rock

William Shakespeare

361. Over Hill, Over Dale

362. A Fairy Scene in a Wood

Ralph Waldo Emerson

363. Fable

364. Concord Hymn

Sir Walter Scott

365. Breathes There the Man

Oliver Wendell Holmes

366. Old Ironsides

William Collins

367. How Sleep the Brave

Author Unknown

368. The Ballad of Nathan Hale

Sir Francis Hastings Doyle

369. The Red Thread of Honor

Rudyard Kipling

370. Recessional

William Ernest Henley

371. Invictus

James Russell Lowell

372. The Falcon

373. The Shepherd of King Admetus

Sir William Schenck Gilbert

374. The Yarn of the Nancy Bell

John Townsend Trowbridge

375. Darius Green and His Flying Machine

William Robert Spencer

376. Beth Gêlert

Author Unknown

377. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury

SECTION VIII

REALISTIC STORIES

Bibliography

Introductory

Oliver Goldsmith

378. The Renowned History of Little Goody Two-Shoes

Dr. John Aikin and Mrs. Letitia Barbauld

379. Eyes, and No Eyes

Thomas Day

380. The Good-Natured Little Boy

Maria Edgeworth

381. Waste Not, Want Not

Juliana Horatia Ewing

382. Jackanapes

Henry Seidel Canby

383. Betty's Ride

Charles Major

384. The Big Bear

"O. Henry"

385. The Gift of the Magi

SECTION IX

NATURE LITERATURE

Bibliography

Introductory

Beatrix Potter

386. The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Thornton Waldo Burgess

387. Johnny Chuck Finds the Best Thing in the World

Albert Bigelow Paine

388. Mr. 'Possum's Sick Spell

Dallas Lore Sharp

389. Wild Life in the Farm-Yard

Vernon L. Kellogg

390. The Vendetta

Sewell Ford

391. Pasha, the Son of Selim

"Ouida" (Louisa de la Ramée)

392. Moufflou

Olive Thorne Miller

393. Bird Habits: I. Where He Sleeps II. His Travels

Ernest Thompson Seton

394. The Poacher and the Silver Fox

David Starr Jordan

395. The Story of a Salmon

Rudyard Kipling

396. Moti Guj—Mutineer

Charles G. D. Roberts

397. Last Bull

SECTION X

ROMANCE CYCLES AND LEGEND

Bibliography

Introductory

From Arabian Nights

398. Ali Baba, and the Forty Thieves

"Felix Summerley"

Reynard the Fox

399. How Bruin the Bear Sped with Reynard the Fox

400. The Battle Between the Fox and the Wolf

Sir Thomas Malory

King Arthur and His Round Table

401. How Arthur Became King

402. A Tourney with the French

403. Adventures of Arthur

Maude Radford Warren

404. Arthur and Sir Accalon

Cervantes-Saavedra, Miguel de

405-411. Stories from Don Quixote

I. Dreams and Shadows

II. Preparing for the Quest

III. The Quest Begins

IV. The Knightly Vigil

V. On Honor's Field

VI. The Return Home

VII. The Battle with the Windmills

Horace E. Scudder

412. The Proud King

Eva March Tappan

413. Robin and the Merry Little Old Woman

Author Unknown

414. Allen-a-Dale

SECTION XI

BIOGRAPHY AND HERO STORIES

Bibliography

Introductory

Elbridge S. Brooks

415. How Columbus Got His Ships

Horace E. Scudder

416. The Boyhood of Washington

Benjamin Franklin

417. The Autobiography

Helen Nicolay

418. Lincoln's Early Days

Anna Howard Shaw

419. In the Western Wilderness

Charlotte M. Yonge

420. The Pass of Thermopylae

SECTION XII

HOME READING LIST AND GENERAL INDEX

Home Reading Lists by Grades

General Index