A Guide to Literature for Children |
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abridged Adventures Æneid Æsop AGES PUBLISHER LIST AGES PUBLISHER PRICE American History Animal AUTHOR TITLE AGES AUTHOR TITLE LIST Bird Stories Birds Boy's Boys and Girls Burt century chil child Diddle Doctor Dolittle Dog of Flanders dren editor eighth grade England England Primer English Fables Fairy Tales fanciful geography Ginn Golden GRADE PUBLISHER PRICE Greek Heroes Hey Diddle Diddle Holt Home Houghton illustrated Indian interest Jessie Willcox Smith King King Arthur Land legends librarian LIST AGES PUBLISHER LIST AUTHOR TITLE literature Little Loth Macmillan modern Monvel moral Mother Goose myths N. C. Wyeth OLCOTT Picture Book Plays Poems poetry public library PUBLISHER LIST PRICE pupil reader Retold School Edition school library Scribner Selections SMITH Songs story-telling tale TAPPAN teacher tion TITLE AGES PUBLISHER Tony Sarg Trail traveling Twins vols volume WIGGIN Wonder World Young
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Page 12 - ... here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time?
Page 12 - Now, books of this kind have been written in all ages by their greatest men; — by great leaders, great statesmen, and great thinkers. These are all at your choice; and life is short. You have heard as much before; — yet have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities ? Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that — that what you lose to-day you cannot gain to-morrow ? Will you go and gossip with your housemaid, or your stable-boy, when you may talk with queens...
Page 120 - I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things in books' clothing perched upon shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants. To reach down a wellbound semblance of a volume, and hope it some kind-hearted play-book, then, opening what "seem its leaves," to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay.
Page 80 - At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace gate Some wondrous pageant; and you scarce would start, If from a beech's heart, A blue-eyed Dryad, stepping forth, should say, "Behold me! I am May!
Page 128 - No one but he who has felt it can ever know the intense longing with which the arrival of Saturday was awaited that a new book might be had.
Page 84 - SWEET and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon ; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep,...
Page 128 - Anderson's precious generosity, and it was when reveling in the treasures which he opened to us that I resolved, if ever wealth came to me, that it should be used to establish free libraries, that other poor boys might receive opportunities similar to those for which we were indebted to that noble man.
Page 79 - All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and down in ceaseless moil...
Page 11 - ... worth — will soon put him in possession of a library which will be a lasting source of strength and satisfaction. It is a mistake to think that the child must be continually supplied with fresh reading matter — that a book once read is finished. Indeed, the strong intellects of the last century are those which have been nourished in childhood upon a few good books — read and re-read until the thought and style became a part of the reader's permanent possession.
Page 62 - To master John the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread ; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he cats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells, and gnaws, from left to right.