LITERATURE 



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LITERATURE 



Graded Lists for Study 



The following lists, divided by grades, suggest 

 a wide range of literature for children, whether 

 for reading or for study. The divisions between 

 the grades are not unchangeable, for some chil- 

 dren in the fifth grade are better able to appre- 

 ciate good literature than are many eighth- 

 grade pupils. 



Grades One to Three 



A Child's Garden of Verses 



Robert Louis Stevenson 



Grimms' Fairy Tales selected. Not all of these 

 stories are suitable for children's reading. 

 They were not written for children in the first 

 place, but were studies in folklore, and while 

 children of all countries have delighted in them, 

 there are some among them which are coarse. 

 Volumes of selections which are all that any 

 teacher could desire are easily procured. 



Aesop's Fables. 



Lullaby Land Eugene Field 



Tanglewood Tales and Wonder Book 



Nathaniel Hawthorne 



Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking 

 Glass i Lewis Carroll 



Just-So Stories Rudyard Kipling 



Poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 



By no means all of these are suited for chil- 

 dren of this age, but Hiawatha, as well as many 

 of the shorter poems, will appeal to them. It 

 is one of the books with which children should 

 become familiar early, since it contains mate- 

 rial fitted for all ages. 



Wild Animals I Have Known 



Ernest Thompson Seton 



Grades Four to Six 



Norse Myths 



These are retold in various forms for children. 

 Hamilton Wright Mabie has a volume called 

 Norse Stories Retold from the Sagas, and there 

 is a delightful book called In the Age of Giants 

 by Abbie Farwell Brown. 



The Heroes Charles Kingsley. 



Grandfather's Chair Nathaniel Hawthorne 



Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 



Swiss Family Robinson. . . Johann Rudolph Wyss 



Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling 



Adventures of Ulysses .Charles Lamb 



Franconia Stories Jacob. Abbott 



Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 



Animal Story Book Ernest Thompson Seton 



Little Lord Fauntleroy. Frances Hodgson Burnett 



Sarah Crewe Frances Hodgson Burnett 



Little Lame Prince. . .Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 

 Nights with Uncle Remus.. Joel Chandler Harris 



Fairy Tales William Hauff 



Bible Stories. .Edited by Richard Green Moulton 



Hans Br inker Mary Mapes Dodge 



Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 



Animal Story Book Andrew Lang 



True Story Book Andrew Lang 



Nonsense Books Edward Lear 



Book of Verses for Children E. V. Lucas 



At the Back of the North Wind 



George Macdonald 



Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 



Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs 



Flamingo Feather . .Kirk Munroe 



Old Indian Legends Zitkala-Sa 



Seventh and Eighth Grades 



Leatherstocking Tales. . .James Fenimore Cooper 



The Spy James Fenimore Cooper 



Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 



Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott 



Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 



Little Women Louisa M. Alcott 



Little Men Louisa M. Alcott 



Eight Cousins Louisa M. Alcott 



Arabian Nights. 



John Halifax; Gentleman 



Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 



Ballad Book . . Katherine Lee Bates 



Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. .Howard Pyle 

 Story of King Arthur and His Knights 



Howard Pyle 



Child's History of England Charles Dickens 



Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 



Tales from Shakespeare. . .Charles & Mary Lamb 



Puch and Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 



The Number g Stove Louisa de la Ramee 



A Dog of Flanders Louisa de la Ramee 



A Man Without a Country. .Edward Everett Hale 

 Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts 



Abbie Farwell Brown 



King of the Golden River John Ruskin 



Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy 



Hollow Washington Irving 



True Bear Stories Joaquin Miller 



Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers. John Burroughs 



Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 



In the Boyhood of Lincoln . Hezekiah Butterworth 



Tales Out of School Frank R. Stockton 



Lost in the Jungle Paul Du Chaillu 



Hoosier Schoolboy Edward Eggleston 



Lays of Ancient Rome Thomas B. Macaulay 



Boys' and Girls- Plutarch. 



Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 



This must of necessity be a special young folks' 



edition. 



Consult Burt's Prose That Every Child Should 

 Know; Field's Finger Posts to Children's Read- 

 ing; Johnson's Outline History of English and 

 American Literature. 



Related Subjects. The following articles have 

 to do with some phase of the general subject of 

 literature. These volumes contain in addition hun- 

 dreds of biographies of writers, which furnish in 

 effect a history of the literatures of the most im- 

 portant countries, and the reader is referred for 

 classified lists of these to the indexes at the close 

 of such articles as HISTORY, NOVEL, POETRY, etc. 



Allegory 



Alliteration 



Almanac 



American Literature 



Anthology 



Augustan Age 



Autograph 



Ballad 



Bard 



Belles-Lettres 



Bible 



Bibliography 



Bibliomania 



Biography 



Blank Verse 



Burlesque 



Canadian Literature 



Classics 



Comedy 



Debate 



