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Title: Children's Literature
Author: Charles Madison Curry
Erle Elsworth Clippinger
Release date: May 20, 2008 [eBook #25545]
Language: English
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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_
[Illustration]
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK
_Copyright, 1920, by_
RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
_Copyright, 1921, by_
RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
All rights reserved
Edition of 1926
[Illustration]
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. Hickory, dickory, dock 25
33. Hogs in the garden 25
34. Hot-cross buns 26
35. Hub a dub dub 26
36. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall 26
37. If all the sea were one sea 26
38. If all the world was apple-pie 26
39. If I'd as much money as I could spend 26
40. If "ifs" and "ands" 26
41. If wishes were horses 26
42. I had a little pony 26
43. I had a little hobby horse 26
44. I have a little sister 27
45. I'll tell you a story 27
46. In marble walls as white as milk 27
47. I went up one pair of stairs 27
48. Jack and Jill went up the hill 27
49. Jack be nimble 27
50. Jack Sprat could eat no fat 27
51. Knock at the door 27
52. Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home 27
53. Little boy blue, come blow your horn 27
54. Little girl, little girl, where have you been 27
55. Little Jack Horner 28
56. Little Jack Jingle 28
57. Little Johnny Pringle 28
58. Little Miss Muffet 28
59. Little Nancy Etticoat 28
60. Little Robin Redbreast 28
61. Little Tommy Tucker 28
62. Long legs, crooked thighs 28
63. Lucy Locket lost her pocket 28
64. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 28
65. Mistress Mary, quite contrary 28
66. Multiplication is vexation 28
67. Needles and pins 29
68. Old King Cole 29
69. Once I saw a little bird 29
70. One for the money 29
71. One misty, moisty morning 29
72. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 29
73. One, two 29
74. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man 29
75. Pease-porridge hot 29
76. Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater 30
77. Peter Piper picked a peck 30
78. Poor old Robinson Crusoe 30
79. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been 30
80. Pussy sits beside the fire 30
81. Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross 30
82. Ride, baby, ride 30
83. Rock-a-bye, baby 30
84. Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green 30
85. See a pin and pick it up 30
86. See, saw, sacradown 31
87. Shoe the little horse 31
88. Sing a song of sixpence 31
89. Star light, star bright 31
90. The King of France went up the hill 31
91. The lion and the unicorn 31
92. The man in the moon 31
93. The north wind doth blow 31
94. The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts 31
95. There was a crooked man 31
96. There was a little boy went into a barn 32
97. There was a man and he had naught 32
98. There was a man in our town 32
99. There was an old man 32
100. There was an old woman, and what do you think 32
101. There was an old woman lived under a hill 32
102. There was an old woman of Leeds 32
103. There was an old woman of Norwich 32
104. There was an old woman tossed up in a basket 32
105. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe 33
106. There was an owl lived in an oak 33
107. This is the way the ladies ride 33
108. This little pig went to market 33
109. Three blind mice 33
110. Three wise men of Gotham 33
111. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig 33
112. Tom, Tom, the piper's son 33
113. Two-legs sat upon three-legs 33
114. When a twister a-twisting 34
115. "Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?" 34
WILHELMINA SEEGMILLER
116. Milkweed Seeds 34
117. An Anniversary 34
118. Twink! twink! 34
MOTHER GOOSE (Longer rhymes)
119. A Was an Apple-Pie 34
120. Tom Thumb's Alphabet 35
121. Where Are You Going 35
122. Molly and I Next |