Children's Books Bibliography from Children's Literature by

MOTHER GOOSE

I. IMPORTANT IN TRACING THE MOTHER GOOSE CANON

• c. 1760. Mother Goose's Melody. [Published by John Newbery, London.] No copy of this issue known to be in existence.
• c. 1783. Ritson, Joseph, Gammer Gurton's Garland, or the Nursery Parnassus. [1810, enlarged.]
• c. 1785. Mother Goose's Melody. [Reprint of Newbery, by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass.]
• [1889. Whitmore, W. H., The Original Mother Goose's Melody, as first issued by John Newbery, of London, about A.D. 1760. Reproduced in facsimile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., about A.D. 1785. With introduction and notes.]
• 1824 ff. Mother Goose's Quarto, or Melodies Complete. [Various issues by Munroe and Francis, Boston.]
• [Hale, Edward Everett, The Only True Mother Goose Melodies. Exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the original edition (Mother Goose's Melodies: The Only Pure Edition) printed in Boston in 1834 by Monroe and Francis. With an introduction.] BOTH
• 1826. Chambers, Robert, Popular Rhymes of Scotland. [1870, enlarged.]
• 1834. Ker, John Bellenden, An Essay on the Archaeology of Popular English Phrases and Nursery Rhymes. [Supplemented 1840 and 1842.]
• 1842. Halliwell (Phillips), J. O., The Nursery Rhymes of England.
• 1849. Halliwell (Phillips), J. O., Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales.
• 1864. Rimbault, Edward F., Old Nursery Rhymes with Tunes.

II. IMPORTANT MODERN COLLECTIONS

• Baring-Gould, Sabine, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes.
• Headland, I. T., Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes.
• Jerrold, Walter, The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes.
• Lang, Andrew, The Nursery Rhyme Book.
• Newell, W. W., Games and Songs of American Children.
• Saintsbury, G. E. B., National Rhymes of the Nursery.
• Welsh, Charles, A Book of Nursery Rhymes.
• Wheeler, William A., Mother Goose's Melodies.

III. NURSERY RHYMES WITH MUSIC

• Crane, Walter, The Baby's Bouquet, a Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes and Tunes.
• Homer, Sidney, Songs from Mother Goose.
• Le Mair, H. Willebeck, Our Old Nursery Rhymes.
• Le Mair, H. Willebeck, Little Songs of Long Ago.
• Perkins, Raymond, Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs.

IV. STUDIES

• Bolton, H. C., Counting-out Rhymes of Children, Their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide Distribution.
• Earle, Alice Morse, Child Life in Colonial Days. [Especially chap. xiv.]
• Eckenstein, Lina, Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes.
• Godfrey, Elizabeth, English Children in the Olden Time. [Especially chap. ii.]
• Gomme, A. B., The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 2 vols.
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
• Green, P. B., The History of Nursery Rhymes.
• Halsey, Rosalie V., Forgotten Books of the American Nursery.
• Field, W. T., Fingerposts to Children's Reading, pp. 193 ff.
• Moses, M. J., Children's Books and Reading, pp. 40 ff.

Fairy Tales -- Traditional

I. STANDARD GENERAL COLLECTIONS

• Jacobs, Joseph, English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, More Celtic Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, Europa's Fairy Tales.
• Lang, Andrew, The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book.
• The Perrault stories are included in the first. Many other volumes named by colors (Violet, Orange, etc.) were made under Mr. Lang's direction, but these four include the cream.

II. NATIONAL COLLECTIONS

ENGLISH:

• Campbell, J. F., Popular Tales of the West Highlands. 4 vols.
• Halliwell, J. O., Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales.
• Hartland, E. S., English Fairy and Folk Tales.

GERMAN:

• Grimm, J. and W., Kinder und Hausmärchen (Household Tales).
• Translated by Edgar Taylor as Grimm's Popular Stories (55 stories, 1823-1827), and illustrated by George Cruikshank. Best reprint is in one volume with introduction by John Ruskin.
• Translated complete by Margaret Hunt (2 vols., 1884), introduction by Andrew Lang.
• Other excellent translations of selected stories by Mrs. Lucas and by Lucy Crane.

INDIAN:

• Frere, Mary, Old Deccan Days.
• Knowles, J. H., Folk Tales of Kashmir.
• Steel, Flora Annie, Tales of the Punjab. (Notes by Captain R. C. Temple.)
• Stokes, Maive, Indian Fairy Tales.

IRISH:

• Curtin, J., Hero Tales of Ireland.
• Graves, A. P., The Irish Fairy Book.
• Hyde, Douglas, Beside the Fire.
• Joyce, P. W., Old Celtic Romances.
• Wilde, Lady Constance, Ancient Irish Legends.
• Yeats, W. B., Irish Fairy Tales.

ITALIAN:

• Crane, T. F., Italian Popular Tales.

NORSE:

• Asbjörnsen, P. C., and Moe, J., Norske Folke-eventyr (Norwegian Folk Tales, 1842-1844, with subsequent additions).
• Translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent in Popular Tales from the Norse and Tales of the Fjeld; by H. L. Braekstad in Round the Yule Log and Fairy Tales from the North.

SLAVIC:

• Bain, R. Nesbit, Cossack Fairy Tales, Russian Folk Tales. In pg as Russian Fairy Tales.

III. THE SCIENCE OF FOLKLORE

• Cox, Roalfe, Cinderella. (Introduction by Lang.)
• Clouston, W. A., Popular Tales and Fictions. 2 vols.
• Gomme, G. L., Folklore as an Historical Science.
• Hartland, E. S., The Science of Fairy Tales.
• Keightly, Thomas, Fairy Mythology.
• Lang, Andrew, Perrault's Popular Tales. (Introduction.)
• MacCulloch, J. A., The Childhood of Fiction.

IV. PEDAGOGY

• Adler, Felix, The Moral Instruction of Children, pp. 63-79.
• Kready, Laura F., The Study of Fairy Tales. (Indispensable.)
• MacClintock, P. L., Literature in the Elementary School, pp. 92-112.
• McMurry, Charles, Special Method in Reading, pp. 47-69.

Fairy Stories -- Modern Fantastic Tales

• Alden, Raymond Macdonald, Why the Chimes Rang, and Other Stories.
• Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy Tales.
• Barrie, Sir James Matthew, The Little White Bird. [Peter Pan.]
• Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz.
• Benson, A. C., David Blaize and the Blue Door.
• Beston, H. B., The Firelight Fairy Book.
• Brown, Abbie Farwell, The Lonesomest Doll.
• Browne, Frances, Granny's Wonderful Chair.
• Carryl, Charles E., Davy and the Goblin.
• "Carroll, Lewis," Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• "Carroll, Lewis," Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
• Chamisso, Adelbert von, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl.
• "Collodi, C.," The Adventures of Pinocchio.
• Cox, Palmer, The Brownies: Their Book.
• Craik, Dinah Mulock, Adventures of a Brownie.
• Craik, Dinah Mulock, The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling-Cloak.
• Crothers, Samuel McChord, Miss Muffet's Christmas Party.
• Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol.
• Ewald, Carl, Two-Legs, and Other Stories.
• Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows.
• Harris, Joel Chandler, Nights with Uncle Remus.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Snow Image "Little Daffydowndilly," "A Rill from the Town Pump."
• Ingelow, Jean, Mopsa the Fairy.
• Ingelow, Jean, Stories Told to a Child. 2 vols.
• Jordan, David Starr, The Book of Knight and Barbara.
• Lagerlof, Selma, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.
• La Motte-Fouqué, F. de, Undine.
• Lang, Andrew, Prince Prigio.
• Kingsley, Charles, The Water Babies.
• Maeterlinck, Maurice, The Blue Bird.
• Macdonald, George, The Princess and the Goblin.
• Macdonald, George, At the Back of the North Wind.
• Pyle, Katherine, In the Green Forest.
• Raspe, Rudolph Erich, Baron Munchausen's Narrative.
• Richards, Laura E., The Story of Toto.
• Richards, Laura E., The Pig Brother.
• Ruskin, John, The King of the Golden River.
• Stockton, Frank R., Fanciful Tales.
• Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels.
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, The Rose and the Ring.
• Wilde, Oscar, The Happy Prince, and Other Stories.
• Wilkins, Mary E., The Pot of Gold.

Fables and Symbolic Stories

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Jacobs, Joseph, History of the Aesopic Fable.

The only elaborate and scholarly study in English. Vol. I of a reprint of Caxton's Aesop. [Bibliothèque de Carabas Series.] Published in 1889 in a limited edition and not easily accessible.

• Jacobs, Joseph, The Fables of Aesop. [Illustrated by Richard Heighway.]

Eighty-two selected fables. The Introduction is a summary of all the essential conclusions reached in the study above.

• Wiggin, Kate D., and Smith, Nora A., The Talking Beasts.

The best general collection from all fields, including both the folk fable and the modern literary fable.

• Babbitt, Ellen C., Jataka Tales Retold.
• Dutton, Maude Barrows, The Tortoise and the Geese, and Other Fables of Bidpai.
• Ramaswami Raju, P. V., Indian Folk Stories and Fables.

These three books are excellent for simplified versions of the eastern group. Those desiring to get closer to the sources may refer to Cowell [ed.], The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births; Rhys-Davids, Buddhist Birth Stories; Keith-Falconer, Bidpai's Fables.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

It is possible to piece out a very satisfactory account of the nature and history of the traditional fable by looking up in any good encyclopedia the brief articles under the following heads: Folklore, Fable, Parable, Apologue, Æsop, Demetrius of Phalerum, Babrias, Phaedrus, Avian, Romulus, Maximus Planudes, Jataka, Bidpai, Panchatantra, Hitopadesa.

For a popular account of the whole philosophy of the apologue consult Newbigging, Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern.

For distinctions between various kinds of symbolic tales see Canby, The Short Story in English (pp. 23 ff.); Trench, Notes on the Parables (Introduction); Smith, "The Fable and Kindred Forms," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. XIV, p. 519.

For origins and parallels read Müller, "On the Migration of Fables," Selected Essays, Vol. I (reprinted in large part in Warner, Library of the World's Best Literature, Vol. XVIII); Clouston, Popular Tales and Fictions, Vol. I, p. 266, and Vol. II, p. 432. The more general treatises on folklore all touch on these problems.

For suggestions on the use of fables with children see MacClintock,Literature in the Elementary School (chap. xi); Adler, Moral Instruction of Children (chaps. vii and viii); McMurry, Special Method in Reading in the Grades (p. 70).

For a clear and helpful account of the French writers of fables, the most important modern group, read Collins, La Fontaine and Other French Fabulists. Representative examples are given in most excellent translation. The best complete translation of La Fontaine is by Elizur Wright; of Krylov, in verse by I. H. Harrison, in prose by W. R. S. Ralston; of Yriarte, by R. Rockliffe. Gay's complete collection may be found in any edition of his poems.

Satisfactory collections of proverbial sayings useful in finding expressions for the wisdom found in fables are Christy, Proverbs, Maxims, and Phrases of All Ages; Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases; Trench, Proverbs and Their Lessons.

A book of great suggestive value covering the whole field of the prose story is Fansler, Types of Prose Narratives. It contains elaborate classifications, discussions and examples of each type, and an extended bibliography. Pp. 83-127 deal with fables, parables, and allegories.

Myths

I. GENERAL HANDBOOKS

• Bulfinch, Thomas, Mythology: The Age of Fable.
• Gayley, Charles Mills, Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art.

II. GREEK AND ROMAN

• Baker, Emilie Kip, Stories of Old Greece and Rome.
• Baldwin, James, Old Greek Stories.
• Francillon, R. E., Gods and Heroes, or the Kingdom of Jupiter.
• Guerber, H. A., Myths of Greece and Rome.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Tanglewood Tales: A Second Wonder-Book.
• Kingsley, Charles, Greek Heroes.
• Kupfer, Grace H., Stories of Long Ago.
• Peabody, Josephine P., Old Greek Folk Stories.

III. NORTHERN MYTHS

• Anderson, R. B., Norse Mythology, or The Religion of Our Forefathers.
• Baker, Emilie Kip, Stories of Northern Myths.
• Boult, Katherine F., Heroes of the Northland.
• Brown, Abbie Farwell, In the Days of the Giants.
• Column, Padraic, The Children of Odin.
• Guerber, H. A., Myths of Northern Lands
• Keary, Anna and Eliza, The Heroes of Asgard.
• Mabie, Hamilton Wright, Norse Stories.
• Wilmot-Buxton, E. M., Stories of Norse Heroes.

IV. NATURE MYTHS ("POURQUOI" STORIES)

• Cook, Flora J., Nature Myths.
• Holbrook, Florence, The Book of Nature Myths.

V. CRITICAL WORKS

• Cox, Sir G. W., Mythology of the Aryan Nations. 2 vols.
• Fiske, John, Myths and Myth-Makers.
• Frazer, J. G., The Golden Bough. 12 vols.
• Hartland, E. S., The Legend of Perseus. 3 vols.
• Lang, Andrew, Myth, Ritual, and Religion. 2 vols.
• Müller, Max, Contributions to the Science of Mythology.
• Ruskin, John, Athena, Queen of the Air.
• Spencer, Herbert, Principles of Sociology.
• Tylor, E. B., Primitive Culture. 2 vols.
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2

Poetry

I. SOME IMPORTANT GENERAL COLLECTIONS

• Bryant, William Cullen, Library of Poetry and Song.
• Child, Francis J., English and Scottish Popular Ballads. [Ed. by Sargent and Kittredge.]
  • Vols. 1-5
• Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, Oxford Book of English Verse.
• Stedman, Edmund Clarence, An American Anthology. A Victorian Anthology.
• Stevenson, Burton E., The Home Book of Verse.

The finest single-volume general collection yet made. It runs to nearly 4,000 pages, but is printed on thin paper so that the volume is not unwieldy.

• Stevenson, Burton E., Poems of American History.

II. COLLECTIONS FOR CHILDREN

• Chisholm, L., The Golden Staircase.
• Grahame, Kenneth, The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children.
• Henley, William Ernest, Lyra Heroica.
• Ingpen, Roger, One Thousand Poems for Children.
• Lang, Andrew, The Blue Poetry Book.
• Lucas, Edward Verrall, A Book of Verses for Children. Another Book of Verses for Children
• Olcott, Frances J., Story Telling Ballads. Story Telling Poems for Children.
• Palgrave, Francis T., The Children's Treasury of Poetry and Song.
• Repplier, Agnes, A Book of Famous Verse.
• Smith, J. C., A Book of Verse for Boys and Girls.
• Stevenson, Burton E., The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks.
• Thacher, Lucy W., The Listening Child.
• Whittier, John Greenleaf, Child Life in Poetry.
• Wiggin, K. D., and Smith, N. A., The Posy Ring. Golden Numbers.

III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

• Blake, William, Songs of Innocence.
• Cary, Alice and Phoebe, Poems for Children. [In Complete Works.]
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, Rhymes and Jingles.
• Field, Eugene, Songs of Childhood.
• Greenaway, Kate, Marigold Garden. Under the Window.
• Lamb, Charles and Mary, Poetry for Children.
• Lear, Edward, Nonsense Songs.
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Complete Poetical Works.
• Richards, Laura E., In My Nursery.
• Riley, James Whitcomb, Rhymes of Childhood.
• Sherman, Frank Dempster, Little-Folk Lyrics.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, A Child's Garden of Verses.
• Rands, William Brighty, Lilliput Lyrics.
• Rossetti, Christina G., Sing-Song. Goblin Market.
• Seegmiller, Wilhelmina, Little Rhymes for Little Readers.
• Tabb, John B., Poems.
• Taylor, Ann and Jane, "Original Poems" and Others. [Ed. by E. V. Lucas.]
• Watts, Isaac, Divine and Moral Songs.
• Wells, Carolyn, The Jingle Book.

Realistic Stories

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY AS A BASIS FOR TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REALISTIC STORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Most of the authors in the following list wrote other books of a realistic nature, in some cases greater books than the one mentioned. The book named is usually the first important one in this field by its author and has, therefore, unusual historical value.

• 1765. Goldsmith, Oliver, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes.
• 1783-1789. Day, Thomas, The History of Sandford and Merton.
• 1792-1796. Aikin, Dr. John, and Barbauld, Mrs. L.E., Evenings at Home.
• [?]-1795. More, Hannah, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain.
• 1796-1800. Edgeworth, Maria, The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children.
• 1808. Lamb, Mary and Charles, Mrs. Leicester's School.
• 1818. Sherwood, Mrs. M.M., The History of the Fairchild Family.
• 1840. Dana, Richard Henry, Two Years Before the Mast.
• 1841. Martineau, Harriet, The Crofton Boys.
• 1856. Yonge, Charlotte M., The Daisy Chain.
• 1857. Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown's School Days.
• 1863. Whitney, Mrs. A.D.T., Faith Gartney's Girlhood.
• 1864. Trowbridge, J.T., Cudjo's Cave.
• 1865. Dodge, Mary Mapes, Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates.
• 1867. Kaler, James Otis, Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus.
• 1868. Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women.
• 1868. Hale, Edward Everett, The Man without a Country.
• 1871. Eggleston, Edward, The Hoosier Schoolmaster.
• 1876. Twain, Mark, Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
• 1878. Jackson, Helen Hunt, Nelly's Silver Mine.
• 1879. Ewing, Juliana Horatia, Jackanapes.
• 1882. Hale, Lucretia P., Peterkin Papers.
• 1883. Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island.
• 1887. Wiggin, Kate Douglas, The Birds' Christmas Carol.
• 1890. Jewett, Sarah Orne, Betty Leicester.
• 1895. Bennett, John, Master Skylark.
• 1897. Kipling, Rudyard, Captains Courageous.
• 1899. Garland, Hamlin, Boy Life on the Prairie.
• 1906. Stein, Evaleen, Gabriel and the Hour-Book.
• 1908. Montgomery, L.M., Anne of Green Gables.
• 1912. Masefield, John, Jim Davis.
• 1917. Crownfield, Gertrude, The Little Taylor of the Winding Way.
• 1920. Latham, Harold S., Jimmy Quigg, Office Boy.

Nature Literature

• Andrews, Jane, The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children.
• Atkinson, Eleanor S., Greyfriars Bobby.
• Bertelli, Luigi, The Prince and His Ants.
• Brown, Dr. John, Rab and His Friends.
• Bullen, Frank, The Cruise of the Cachelot.
• Burgess, Thornton W., Old Mother West Wind Stories.
• Burroughs, John, Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers. Wake Robin.
• Chapman, William G., Green-Timber Trails: Wild Animal Stories of the Upper Fur Country.
• Ford, Sewell, Horses Nine.
• Hawkes, Clarence, Shaggycoat.
• Hudson, W. H., A Little Boy Lost.
• Jordan, David Starr, Science Sketches.
• Kellogg, Vernon L., Insect Stories. Nuova, the New Bee.
• Kingsley, Charles, Madame How and Lady Why.
• Kipling, Rudyard, Just-So Stories. The Jungle Book. (Two Series).
• London, Jack, The Call of the Wild.
• Long, William J., Wood-Folk Comedies. A Little Brother to the Bear.
• Miller, Joaquin, True Bear Stories.
• Miller, Olive Thorne, The Children's Book of Birds.
• Mills, Enos A., Scotch. The Thousand Year Old Pine.
• Muir, John, Stickeen. Our National Parks.
• Ollivant, Alfred, Bob, Son of Battle.
• "Ouida" (Louisa de la Ramée), Moufflou. The Dog of Flanders.
• Paine, Albert Bigelow, Hollow-Tree Nights and Days. Arkansaw Bear.
• Potter, Beatrix, Peter Rabbit. Benjamin Bunny.
• Roberts, Charles G. D., Kings in Exile. Children of the Wild.
• Saunders, Marshall, Beautiful Joe.
• Sègur, Sophie, Comtesse de, The Story of a Donkey.
• Seton, Ernest Thompson, Wild Animals at Home. The Biography of a Grizzly.
• Sewell, Anna, Black Beauty.
• Sharp, Dallas Lore, Beyond the Pasture Bars. A Watcher in the Woods.
• Terhune, Albert Payson, Lad: A Dog.

• Thoreau, Henry David, A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers.
• Walton, Izaak, The Compleat Angler.
• White, Gilbert, The Natural History of Selborne.

The three books that stand at the end of this brief list are probably not ones that any teacher would recommend indiscriminately to pupils of the grades. They are the greatest of the classic books in nature literature and, in a way, constitute the goal of nature lovers.

Romance Cycles and Legend

• Baldwin, James, The Story of Roland. The Story of Siegfried.
• Baring-Gould, Sabine, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.
• Becquer, G.A., Romantic Legends of Spain.
• Canton, W.V., Child's Book of Saints.
• Cervantes-Saavedra, Miguel de, Don Quixote. [In translation, or as retold by Havell or Parry.]
• Church, Alfred J., Stories from the Iliad. Stories from the Odyssey. Heroes of Chivalry and Romance. Stories of Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France.
• Colum, Padraic, The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy.
• Crommelin, Emeline G., Famous Legends.
• Darton, F.J.H., Wonder Book of Old Romance.
• Farrington, Margaret V., Tales of King Arthur.
• Finnemore, John, The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men.
• Guerber, H.A., Legends of the Middle Ages.
• Guest, Lady Charlotte, The Mabinogion.
• Herbertson, Agnes G., Heroic Legends.
• Homer, Iliad. [Prose translation by Lang, Leaf, and Myers; poetic by Bryant.]
• Homer, Odyssey. [Prose translation by George H. Palmer; poetic by Bryant.]
• Hull, Eleanor, The Boys' Cuchulain: Heroic Legends of Ireland.
• Lamb, Charles, The Adventures of Ulysses.
• Lane, E.W., Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
• Lang, Andrew, A Book of Romance.
• Lanier, Sidney, The Boy's King Arthur. The Boy's Mabinogion.
• MacLeod, Mary, King Arthur and His Noble Knights.
• Marshall, H.E., The Story of William Tell. The Story of Roland.
• Marvin, Frank S. (and others), Adventures of Odysseus.
• Morris, William, Sigurd, the Volsung.
• Newbolt, Henry, Stories from Froissart.
• Pyle, Howard, Stories of King Arthur and His Knights. Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
• Plummer, Mary W., Stories from the Chronicle of the Cid.
• Ragozin, Z.A., Frithjof and Roland. Siegfried and Beowulf.
• Rolleston, T.W., High Deeds of Finn.
• Scudder, Horace E., The Book of Legends.
• Tappan, Eva March, Robin Hood: His Book.
• Tennyson, Alfred, The Idylls of the King.
• Warren, Maude Radford, King Arthur and His Knights. Robin Hood and His Merry Men.
• Wilson, C.D., Story of the Cid for Young People.

Biography and Hero Stories

• Abbott, J. S. C., Christopher Carson. David Crockett.
• Antin, Mary, The Promised Land.
• Baldwin, James, Four Great Americans. [Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln.] An American Book of Golden Deeds.
• Bolton, Sarah K., Lives of Girls Who Became Famous. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
• Boutet de Monvel, Louis Maurice, Joan of Arc.
• Brooks, Elbridge S., True Story of Christopher Columbus.
• Cody, Col. W. F., The Adventures of Buffalo Bill.
• Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography.
• Golding, V., Story of David Livingston.
• Gould, F. J., The Children's Plutarch. [2 vols., one of Greeks, the other of Romans.]
• Hathaway, Esse V., Napoleon, the Little Corsican.
• Hughes, Thomas, Alfred the Great.
• Jefferson, Joseph, Autobiography.
• Jenks, Tudor, Captain John Smith.
• Keller, Helen, The Story of My Life.
• Knight, Helen Cross, 'Puffing Billy' and the Prize 'Rocket'.
• Larcom, Lucy, A New England Girlhood.
• Mabie, Hamilton W., Heroines Every Child Should Know.
• Moores, Charles W., Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls.
• Muir, John, Story of My Boyhood and Youth.
• Nicolay, Helen, Boy's Life of Abraham Lincoln.
• Page, Thomas Nelson, Robert E. Lee: Man and Soldier.
• Paine, Albert Bigelow, Boy's Life of Mark Twain.
• Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, Roll Call of Honor. [Bolivar, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Garibaldi, David Livingston, Florence Nightingale, Pasteur, Gordon, Father Damien.]
• Richards, Laura E., Florence Nightingale.
• Riis, Jacob, Making of an American.
• Roosevelt, Theodore, and Lodge, Henry Cabot, Hero Tales from American History.
• Scudder, Horace E, George Washington.
• Shaw, Anna Howard, The Story of a Pioneer.
• Tarbell, Ida M., Life of Abraham Lincoln.
• Thwaites, Reuben G., Daniel Boone.
• Washington, Booker T., Up from Slavery.
• White, John S., Boys' and Girls' Plutarch. [Preserves parallel arrangement.]
• Yonge, Charlotte M., A Book of Golden Deeds.

Home Reading List

FIRST GRADE

• Banta, N. Moore, and Benson, Alpha B., Brownie Primer.
• Blaisdell, Mary Frances, Mother Goose Children.
• Brooke, Leonard Leslie, Johnny Crow's Garden. Johnny Crow's Party.
• Buffum, Katharine G., Mother Goose in Silhouettes.
• Craik, Georgiana Marion, So-fat and Mew-mew.
• Crane, Walter, Beauty and the Beast Picture Book. Bluebeard's Picture Book. Cinderella's Picture Book. Goody Two Shoes Picture Book. Mother Hubbard, Her Picture Book. Red Riding Hood's Picture Book. Song of Sixpence.

This Little Pig, His Picture Book. Buckle My Shoe.

• Fox, Florence Cornelia, The Indian Primer.
• Gaynor, Mrs. Jessie Love, and Riley, Alice C. D., Songs of the Child-World.
• Greenaway, Kate, Under the Window.
• Haaren, John Henry, Rhymes and Fables.
• Howard, Frederick Ward, Banbury Cross Stories.
• Lansing, Marion Florence, The Child's World Garden.
• Le Fèvre, Felicité, The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen.
• Lucas, Edward Verrall, Four and Twenty Toilers.
• Mother Goose, The Real Mother Goose (illus. by Blanche Fisher Wright).
• Noyes, Marion, The Sunshine Primer.
• Saxby, Lewis, Life of a Wooden Doll.
• Seton, Ernest Thompson, Wild Animal Play for Children.
• Skinner, A. M., and Lawrence, L. N., Little Dramas for Primary Grades.
• Smith, Elmer Boyd, Chicken World.
• Varney, A. S., The Robin Reader.
• Welsh, Charles, (ed.), Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.
• Wiltse, Sara E., Folklore Stories and Proverbs.

SECOND GRADE

• Adelborg, Ottilia, Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea.
• Æsopus. Fables (Dalkeith ed.).
• Bannerman, Mrs. Helen, Story of Little Black Sambo.
• Bass, Florence, Nature Stories for Young Readers: Animal Life. Nature Stories for Young Readers: Plant Life.
• Bryce, Catherine Turner, Stevenson Reader (cleared July 2020).
• Burgess, Gelett, Goops, and How to Be Them. More Goops, and How Not to Be Them.
• Caldecott, Randolph, Come Lasses Picture Book. Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book.
• Coe, Ida, Story Hour Reader, vol 3. Story Hour Reader, vol 4
• Cooke, Flora J., Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children
• Craik, Georgiana Marion, Bow-wow and Mew-mew.
• Crane, Walter, Baby's Own Aesop.
• Deming, Therese Osterheld, Little Indian Folk. Little Red People.
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, Rhymes and Jingles.
• Greenaway, Kate, Marigold Garden.
• Haaren, John Henry, Songs and Stories.
• Hix, Melvin, Once-upon-a-Time Stories.
• Ivimey, John William, Three Blind Mice.
• McCullough, Annie Willis, Little Stories for Little People.
• Moore, Annie E., Pennies and Plans.
• Murray, Clara, The Child at Play.
• Poulsson, Emilie, The Runaway Donkey and Other Rhymes. Through the Farmyard Gate.
• Smith, Elmer Boyd, Farm Book. Santa Claus Book. Seashore Book.
• Smith, Gertrude, Lovable Tales of Janey and Josey and Joe. Roggie and Reggie Stories.
• Tileston, Mary Wilder Foote, Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice.
• Tolman, Stella Webster Carroll, Around the World, Vol. 1.
• Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, Classic Fables.
• Weatherly, F. E., The Book of Gnomes.

THIRD GRADE

• Aspinwall, Mrs. Alicia, Short Stories for Short People.
• Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, Boys and Girls of Colonial Days.
• Brocks, Dorothy, Red Children.
• Brooke, Leonard Leslie, Golden Goose Book.
• Brown, Abbie Farwell, Christmas Angel. Lonesomest Doll.
• Browning, Robert, Pied Piper of Hamelin (illus. by Hope Dunlap).
• Chisholm, Louey, Nursery Rhymes.
• Deming, Mrs. Therese Osterheld, Children of the Wild. Little Brothers of the West.
• Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes, New Baby World.
• Field, Eugene, Lullaby-land: Songs of Childhood.
• Foulke, Elizabeth E., Braided Straws. Twilight Stories.
• Francis, Joseph Greene, Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals.
• Gates, Mrs. Josephine Scribner, Story of Live Dolls.
• Gerson, Virginia, Happy Heart Family.
• Grimm, Jacob L. K., and Wilhelm, K., Fairy Tales (Lucas ed.). Fairy Tales (Wiltse ed.).
• Haaren, John Henry, Fairy Life.
• Lang, Andrew, Prince Darling, and Other Stories.
• Lansing, Marion Florence, Rhymes and Stories.
• McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, Classic Stories for the Little Ones.
• Morley, Margaret Warner, Seed-Babies.
• Peary, Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch, Snow Baby.
• Perkins, Lucy Fitch, Dutch Twins. Japanese Twins.
• Pierson, Clara Dillingham, Among the Farmyard People.
• Pyle, Katharine, Careless Jane, and Other Tales.
• Shute, Katherine H., Land of Song, Vol. 1. Vol. 2. Vol. 3.
• Tappan, Eva March, Dixie Kitten. Golden Goose.
• Thorne-Thomsen, Mrs. Gudrun, East o' the Sun.
• Trimmer, Mrs. Sarah K., History of the Robins.
• Valentine, Mrs. Laura Jewry, Aunt Louisa's Book of Fairy Tales.
• Woodward, Alice B., Peter Pan Picture Book.

FOURTH GRADE

• Alden, Raymond Macdonald, Why the Chimes Rang.
• Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy Tales (Lucas ed.).
• Barrie, James Matthew, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
• Brown, Abbie Farwell, John of the Woods.
• Brown, Helen Dawes, Little Miss Phoebe Gay.
• Browne, Frances, Granny's Wonderful Chair, and Its Tales of Fairy Times.
• Campbell, Helen LeRoy, Story of Konrad, the Swiss Boy.
• Carryl, Charles Edward, Davy and the Goblin.
• Craik, Mrs. Dinah Maria, Adventures of a Brownie.
• Crichton, Mrs. F. E., Peep-in-the-World.
• Drummond, Henry, Monkey That Would Not Kill.
• Faulkner, Georgene, Italian Fairy Tales. Russian Fairy Tales.
• Grimm, Jacob L.K., and Wilhelm K., Household Fairy Tales, tr. by L. Crane.
• Hopkins, William John, Sandman: His Farm Stories.
• Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour, Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales.
• Ingelow, Jean, Mopsa the Fairy.
• Lang, Andrew, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Nursery Rhyme Book. Pretty Goldilocks. Snow Man. Snow Queen.
• Lindsay, Maud, and Poulsson, Emilie, Joyous Travelers.
• Lorenzini, Carlo, Adventures of Pinocchio.
• Lucas, Edward Verrall, Book of Verses for Children.
• Macdonald, George, Princess and the Goblin.
• Morley, Margaret Warner, Donkey John of Toy Valley.
• O'Shea, Michael Vincent, Old World Wonder Stories.
• Paine, Albert Bigelow, How Mr. Dog Got Even. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail.
• Peck, Harry Thurston, Adventures of Mabel.
• Pierson, Mrs. Clara Dillingham, Three Little Millers.
• Pyle, Katharine, As the Goose Flies. Christmas Angel. Counterpane Fairy.
• Richards, Mrs. Laura E., Joyous Story of Toto. Toto's Merry Winter.
• Schwartz, Julia Augusta, Five Little Strangers.
• Scudder, Horace E., Book of Fables. Book of Folk Stories. Children's Book.
• Segur, Sophie R. de, Story of a Donkey.
• Thorne-Thomsen, Mrs. Gudrun, Birch and the Star.
• Walker, Margaret Coulson, Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends.
• Welsh, Charles, Fairy Tales Children Love.
• Wette, A.H., Hansel and Gretel (illus. in colors).
• White, Eliza Orne, When Molly Was Six.
• Williston, Teresa Peirce, Japanese Fairy Tales.
• Zwilgmeyer, Dikken, Johnny Blossom.

FIFTH GRADE

• Alden, William Livingston, Cruise of the Canoe Club. Cruise of the "Ghost." Moral Pirates.
• Baldwin, James, Old Greek Stories.
• Brown, Abbie Farwell, In the Days of Giants.
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
• Caldwell, Frank, Wolf, the Storm Leader.
• Coburn, Claire Martha, Our Little Swedish Cousin.
• Colum, Padraic, Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said.
• Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, Alice in Wonderland.
• Duncan, Norman, Adventures of Billy Topsail.
• French, Allen, Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow.
• Golding, Vautier, Story of David Livingstone.
• Gordy, Wilbur Fisk, American Leaders and Heroes.
• Grinnell, George Bird, Jack among the Indians.
• Hall, Jennie, Viking Tales.
• Jacobs, Joseph, Celtic Fairy Tales. English Fairy Tales.
• Jenks, Albert Ernest, Childhood of Ji-shib, the Ojibway.
• Kaler, James Otis, Mr. Stubbs' Brother. Toby Tyler.
• Kipling, Rudyard, Just-So Stories.
• Lucas, Edward Verrall, Book of Verses for Children.
• Mabie, Hamilton Wright, Norse Stories.
• Mighels, Philip Verrill, Sunnyside Tad.
• Olcott, Frances Jenkins, Fairies and Elves. Arabian Nights.
• Paine, Albert Bigelow, Arkansaw Bear.
• Pendleton, Louis B., In the Camp of the Creeks.
• Pyle, Howard, Garden behind the Moon (currently proj_post_first_unavailable). Story of King Arthur and His Knights. Wonder Clock.
• Pyle, Katharine, Nancy Rutledge.
• Richards, Laura E., Captain January.
• Schultz, James Willard, With the Indians in the Rockies.
• Seton, Ernest Thompson, Lives of the Hunted.
• Spyri, Mrs. Johanna, Heidi.
• Stockton, Frank R., Fanciful Tales.
• Stoddard, William Osborn, Little Smoke.
• Tappan, Eva March, Robin Hood: His Book,
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, Rose and the Ring.
• Wesselhoeft, Lily F., Sparrow the Tramp.
• Wiggin, Kate Douglas, Birds' Christmas Carol.
• Wiggin, Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora A., Fairy Ring.
• Wyss, Johann David, Swiss Family Robinson.
• Zollinger, Gulielma, Widow O 'Callaghan's Boys.

SIXTH GRADE

• Alcott, Louisa M., Eight Cousins. Jack and Jill.
• Baldwin, James, Story of the Golden Age. Story of Roland. Story of Siegfried.
• Bennett, John, Barnaby Lee.
• Bond, Alexander Russell, Pick, Shovel and Pluck.
• Bostock, Frank Charles, Training of Wild Animals.
• Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, Master of the Strong Hearts.
• Brooks, Noah, Boy Emigrants (illus. ed.)
• Browne, Belmore, Quest of the Golden Valley.
• Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson, Little Princess.
• Crump, Irving, Boys' Book of Firemen.
• Daviess, Marie Thompson, Phyllis.
• Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe.
• Dix, Beulah Marie, Merrylips.
• Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes, Hans Brinker.
• DuBois, Mary Constance, Lass of the Silver Sword.
• Eggleston, George Cary, Last of the Flatboats.
• Ford, Sewell. Horses Nine.
• French, Allen, Story of Greltir the Strong. Junior Cup.
• Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly W., With Spurs of Gold,
• Greene, Homer, The Blind Brother.
• Gregor, Elmer Russell, Red Arrow.
• Hamp, Sidford Frederick, Treasure of Mushroom Rock.
• Hawkes, Clarence, Shaggycoat: the Biography of a Beaver.
• Hudson, William Henry, Little Boy Lost.
• Inman, Henry, Ranche on the Oxhide.
• Irving, Washington, Rip Van Winkle. In Short Stories Old and New
• Jacobs, Joseph, Indian Fairy Tales.
• Johnston, William Allen, Deeds of Doing and Daring.
• Kipling, Rudyard, Jungle Book.
• Lang, Andrew, Red True Story Book.
• Little, Francis, Camp Jolly.
• Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet Mulford, Five Little Peppers.
• Munroe, Kirk, Flamingo Feather.
• Page, Thomas Nelson, Two Little Confederates.
• Pyle, Katharine, Theodora.
• Rankin, Mrs. Carroll Watson, Dandelion Cottage.
• Roberts, Theodore, Red Feathers (currently proj_submit_pgposted).
• Seaman, Augusta Huiell, Boarded-up House.
• Seawell, Molly Elliot, Little Jarvis.
• Seton, Ernest Thompson, Wild Animals I Have Known.
• Stockton, Frank R., Bee-Man of Orn.
• Stoddard, William Osborn, Red Mustang.
• Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels.
• Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton B., Wonder Workers.
• Wallace, Dillon, Arctic Stowaways.
• Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, Jack, the Fire Dog.

SEVENTH GRADE

• Adams, Joseph Henry, Harper's Indoor Book for Boys. Harper's Outdoor Book for Boys.
• Alcott, Louisa M., Jo's Boys. Old-fashioned Girl. Under the Lilacs.
• Altsheler, Joseph Alexander, Forest Runners. Free Rangers. Young Trailers.
• Barnes, James, Hero of Erie: Oliver Hazard Perry. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors.
• Browne, Belmore, White Blanket.
• Bullen, Frank Thomas, Cruise of the Cachalot.
• Burton, Charles Pierce, The Boys of Bob's Hill.
• Canavan, Michael Joseph, Ben Comee: a Tale of Roger's Rangers.
• Day, Holman Francis, Eagle Badge.
• Deland, Ellen Douglas, Oakleigh.
• Dix, Beulah Marie, Little Captive Lad.
• Dodge, Mrs. Mary Mapes, Donald and Dorothy.
• Drysdale, William, Beach Patrol. Cadet Standish of the "St. Louis.' Fast Mail. Young Supercargo.
• Foa, Eugenie, Boy Life of Napoleon.
• Garland, Hamlin, Long Trail.
• Greene, Homer, Pickett's Gap.
• Grey, Zane, Young Forester. Young Pitcher.
• Grinnell, George Bird, Jack among the Indians. Jack in the Rockies. Jack, the Young Ranchman.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Grandfather's Chair.
• Henley, William Ernest, Lyra Heroica: Book of Verse for Boys.
• Hill, T., Fighting a Fire.
• Hough, Emerson, Young Alaskans.
• Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown's School Days.
• Jackson, Mrs. Helen Hunt, Nellie's Silver Mine.
• Jacobs, Caroline Emilia, Joan's Jolly Vacation. Joan of Juniper Inn.
• Kieffer, Henry Martyn, Recollections of a Drummer-Boy.
• Munroe, Kirk, At War with Pontiac. Cab and Caboose.
• Pyle, Howard, Otto of the Silver Hand.
• Quirk, Leslie W., Baby Elton, Quarterback.
• Roberts, Charles G. D., Kindred of the Wild.
• Seton, Ernest Thompson, Two Little Savages.
• Stockton, Frank R., Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast.
• Stoddard, William Osborn, Red Patriot. White Cave. Lost Gold of the Montezumas.
• Tolman, Albert Walter, Jim Spurling, Fisherman.
• Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth, Search for Andrew Field. Three Colonial Boys. Red Chief. Marching against the Iroquois.
• Wiggin, Kate Douglas, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
• Zollinger, Gulielma, Maggie McLanehan.

EIGHTH GRADE

• Adams, Andy, Wells Brothers: the Young Cattle Kings.
• Ashmun, Margaret Eliza, Isabel Carlton's Year.
• Barbour, Ralph Henry, Behind the Line, Crimson Sweater.
• Beach, Edward Latimer, Annapolis First Classman.
• Bennett, John, Master Skylark.
• Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, Story of Tonty.
• Cervantes-Saavedra M. de, Don Quixote.
• Clemens, Samuel L., Prince and the Pauper.
• Coffin, Charles Carleton, Boys of '76.
• Cooper, James Fenimore, Deerslayer.
• Dana, Richard Henry, Two Years before the Mast.
• Doubleday, Russell, Cattle-Ranch to College.
• Driggs, Lawrence La Tourette, Adventures of Arnold Adair, American Ace.
• Duncan, Norman, Adventures of Billy Topsail.
• Eggleston, George Gary, Bale Marked Circle X.
• French, Harry W., The Lance of Kanana.
• Gilbert, A., More than Conquerors.
• Gordon, Charles William, (aka Connor, Ralph) Glengarry School Days.
• Goss, Warren Lee, Jed.
• Hamp, Sidford Frederick, Dale and Fraser, Sheepmen.
• Hill, Frederick Trevor, On the Trail of Grant and Lee.
• Homer, Adventures of Odysseus. (Colum ed.)
• Hughes, Rupert, Lakerim Athletic Club.
• Johnston, Charles Haven L., Famous Scouts.
• Kipling, Rudyard, Captains Courageous.
• London, Jack, Call of the Wild.
• Macleod, Mary, Shakespeare Story Book.
• Malory, Sir Thomas, Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights.
• Masefield, John, Martin Hyde.
• Meigs, Cornelia, Master Simon's Garden.
• Moffett, Cleveland, Careers of Danger and Daring.
• Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Anne of Green Gables.
• Nicolay, Helen, Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln.
• Ollivant, Alfred, Bob, Son of Battle.
• Parkman, Mary Heroes of To-day.
• Pendleton, Louis B., King Tom and the Runaways.
• Pyle, Howard, Men of Iron, Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes.
• Rice, Alice Caldwell H., Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
• Richards, Laura E., Florence Nightingale.
• Richmond, Grace L., Round the Corner in Gay Street.
• Roberts, Charles G.D., Heart of the Ancient Wood.
• Rolt-Wheeler, Francis William, Boy with the U.S. Foresters.
• Schultz, James William, Quest of the Fish-Dog Skin.
• Seaman, Augusta Huiell, Girl Next Door.
• Singmaster, Elsie, Emmeline.
• Tappan, Eva March, In the Days of Queen Elizabeth.
• Thompson, Arthur Ripley, Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail.
• Thompson, James Maurice, Alice of Old Vincennes.
• Thurston, Ida Treadwell, Bishop's Shadow.
• Trowbridge, John Townsend, Cudjo's Cave.
• Verne, Jules, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
• Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt, Marooned in the Forest.
• Wallace, Dillon, Wilderness Castaways.
• Wallace, Lewis, Ben Hur.
• Waller, Mary Ella, Daughter of the Rich.