Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

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        When all the novelists and spinners of
        elaborate fictions have been read and judged,
        we shall find that the peasant and the nurse
        are still unsurpassed as mere narrators. They
        are the guardians of that treasury of legend
        which comes to us from the very childhood of
        nations; they and their tales are the abstract
        and brief chronicles, not of an age merely, but
        of the whole race of man. It is theirs to keep
        alive the great art of telling stories as a
        thing wholly apart from and independent of the
        art of writing stories, and to pass on their
        art to children and to children's children.
        They abide in a realm of their own, in blessed
        isolation from that world of professional
        authors and their milk-and-water books "for
        children."
                          --C. B. TINKER, "In Praise of Nursery
                            Lore," _The Unpopular Review_,
                            October-December, 1916.




CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

A TEXTBOOK OF SOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER-TRAINING CLASSES

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

        _BY_
        CHARLES MADISON CURRY
        _AND_
        ERLE ELSWORTH CLIPPINGER
        _Professors of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School_

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        RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
        CHICAGO     NEW YORK




        _Copyright, 1920, by_
        RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY

        _Copyright, 1921, by_
        RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
        All rights reserved
        Edition of 1926

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        Made in U. S. A.




THE CONTENTS


SECTION I

PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION

  _General Bibliography_                                               2

  _The Preface_                                                        5

  _General Introduction_                                               7

    1. Literature for Children                                         7

    2. Literature in the Grades                                        8

    3. Story-Telling and Dramatization                                10

    4. Courses of Study                                               13


SECTION II

MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES

  _Bibliography_                                                      18

  _Introductory_                                                      19

  MOTHER GOOSE (Shorter rhymes):

    1. A cat came fiddling out of a barn                              23

    2. A diller, a dollar                                             23

    3. As I was going to St. Ives                                     23

    4. As I was going up Pippen Hill                                  23

    5. As I went to Bonner                                            23

    6. As Tommy Snooks and Bessie Brooks                              23

    7. A swarm of bees in May                                         23

    8. Baa, baa, black sheep                                          23

    9. Barber, barber, shave a pig                                    23

   10. Birds of a feather flock together                              23

   11. Bless you, bless you, burnie bee                               23

   12. Bobby Shafto's gone to sea                                     24

   13. Bow, wow, wow                                                  24

   14. Bye, baby bunting                                              24

   15. Come when you're called                                        24

   16. Cross patch                                                    24

   17. Curly locks, curly locks                                       24

   18. Dance, little baby                                             24

   19. Diddle, diddle, dumpling                                       24

   20. Ding, dong, bell                                               24

   21. Doctor Foster                                                  24

   22. Eggs, butter, cheese, bread                                    24

   23. For every evil under the sun                                   24

   24. Four-and-twenty tailors                                        25

   25. Great A, little a                                              25

   26. Hark, hark                                                     25

   27. Here sits the Lord Mayor                                       25

   28. Here we go up, up, up                                          25

   29. Hey! diddle, diddle                                            25

   30. Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7                                      25

   31. Higgledy, Piggledy                                             25

   32.