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Stories and Rhymes for Young Children
A Child’s Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1905).
The Land of Make Believe, by Eugene Field, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., (1931).
Stories for Little Children, Compiled by Susan S. Hardman, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1920).
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Firelight Stories, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Springfield, Mass.: Milton Bradley Company, (1907).
Mother’s Nursery Tales, by Katharine Pyle, New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (1918).
A Book of Nursery Rhymes, by Charles Welsh, Boston, New York, Chicago: D.C. Heath & Co. Publishers, (1901).
Poems for Children, by Christina G. Rossetti, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco: Educational Publishing Co., (1907).
Classic Stories for the Little Ones, by Mrs. Lida Brown McMurry, Bloomington, Illinois: Public-School Publishing Company, (1911).
Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures, by Howard R. Garis, New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1912).
Mother Stories, by Maud Lindsay, Springfield, Mass.: Milton Bradley Company, (1907).
Raggedy Ann Stories, by Johnny Gruelle, Chicago: P.F. Volland Company, (1918).
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The Boston Collection of Kindergarten Stories, by Boston Kindergarten Teachers, Boston: J.L. Hammett Company, (1913).
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Rhymes and Stories, by Marion Florence Lansing, Boston: Ginn and Company, (1907).
Table of Contents Mother Goose Rhymes............................................... 1 Personal to the Child ................................................................3 Animals and their Doings .......................................................11 Other Children and Other ......................................................22 People in Relation to the Child...............................................22 Days and Nights, Weeks and Months and Years, Time and the Weather, Etc. ..........................................................................32 Plays, Games, Riddles, ............................................................37 Counting Rhymes, Etc. ...........................................................37 Stories, Proverbs, Paradoxes, Experience Rhymes, Rhyming Alphabets, Etc.........................................................................46 A Child’s Garden of Verses...................................... 57 Bed in Summer .......................................................................59 A Thought ..............................................................................59 At the Seaside .........................................................................60 Young Night Thought.............................................................60 Whole Duty of Children .........................................................61 TravelWindyForeignPirateRain.........................................................................................61Story.............................................................................61Lands..........................................................................62Nights..........................................................................63......................................................................................64
Table of Contents Continued Singing.................................................................................... 65 Looking Forward..................................................................... 66 A Good Play ........................................................................... 66 Where Go the Boats?.............................................................. 67 Auntie’s Skirts ........................................................................ 67 The Land of Counterpane ...................................................... 68 The Land of Nod .................................................................... 68 My Shadow ............................................................................. 69 System .................................................................................... 70 A Good Boy............................................................................ 70 Escape at Bedtime................................................................... 71 Marching Song........................................................................ 72 The Cow................................................................................. 73 Happy Thought ...................................................................... 73 The Wind ............................................................................... 73 Keepsake Mill ......................................................................... 74 Good and Bad Children.......................................................... 76 Foreign Children..................................................................... 77 The Sun’s Travels................................................................... 78 The Lamplighter ..................................................................... 78 My Bed is a Boat..................................................................... 79 The Moon............................................................................... 80 The Swing............................................................................... 81 Time to Rise ........................................................................... 81 Looking-Glass River ............................................................... 82 Fairy Bread ............................................................................. 83
Table of Contents Continued From a Railway Carriage.........................................................83 Winter Time ...........................................................................84 The TheNorthFarewellHayloft.............................................................................85totheFarms..............................................................86-WestPassage................................................................871.GoodNight.....................................................................872.ShadowMarch................................................................883.InPort.............................................................................88ChildAlone.....................................................................90TheUnseenPlaymate.........................................................90MyShipandI.....................................................................91MyKingdom.......................................................................91Picture-BooksinWinter.....................................................93MyTreasures......................................................................94BlockCity...........................................................................95TheLandofStory-Books....................................................96ArmiesintheFire...............................................................97TheLittleLand...................................................................98NightandDay...................................................................100NestEggs..........................................................................102TheFlowers......................................................................104SummerSun.....................................................................105TheDumbSoldier............................................................106AutumnFires....................................................................107TheGardener...................................................................108HistoricalAssociations.....................................................109
Table of Contents Continued Envoys ..................................................................................110 To Willie and Henrietta ...................................................110 To My Mother ..................................................................111 To Auntie.........................................................................111 To Minnie.........................................................................111 To My Name Child ..........................................................114 To Any Reader .................................................................115 Selected Poems for Young Children .......................117 The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat .................................119 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod .................................................120 The Sugar-Plum Tree...........................................................122 The Dream Ship ...................................................................123 Love Me−I Love You ...........................................................125 KindnessWhat?TheIfCloudsTheTheSingLullabyMixBaby,Angels...................................................................................126Sleep...........................................................................126aPancake......................................................................126..................................................................................127MeaSong.....................................................................127SwallowandtheSnail...................................................128Rainbow........................................................................128andRainbows...........................................................128IWereaQueen.................................................................129Caterpillar.....................................................................129...................................................................................130...............................................................................131
Hare and the Tortoise ...................................................203
North
and the Three Bears............................................143
The
Little
Go-Sleep Story...............................................................182
Gold Bugs ......................................................................191 “I Don’t Care”.......................................................................194
Dog and His Shadow .....................................................207
The
Young Children....................... 133
The
Teeny-Tiny Story ..............................................................135
Old Woman and Her Pig...............................................173
Lion and the Mouse.......................................................201
Fox and the Grapes........................................................206
The
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Pancake .........................................................................177
The
Snowman.......................................................................196
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Gingerbread Boy............................................................155
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Story of the Three Little Pigs ........................................148 Chicken Little .......................................................................152
Mrs.
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Master
Goldilocks
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Chanticleer and Dame Hen ......................................165
Little Steam Engine .......................................................159
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Little Gray Pony ............................................................184
Tabby Gray ...................................................................188
Wind and the Sun ......................................................205
Little Red Hen...............................................................137
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The
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Red Riding-Hood.........................................................168
Story of Ibbity................................................................162
Three Billy Goats Gruff.................................................140
Table of Contents Continued
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Ant and the Dove..........................................................208 The Tale of Peter Rabbit ......................................................209 Why the Bear Sleeps all Winter ...........................................213 Lazy Jack...............................................................................217 The Two Little Maple Leaves ...............................................220 The Little Pine Tree Who Wished for New Leaves .............223 Story of an Acorn .................................................................225 The Anxious Leaf .................................................................227 The Lost TheTheTheTheTheThumblingLamb......................................................................229............................................................................233LarkandHerYoungOnes............................................237MagicFlower.................................................................239LegendofthePondLily................................................243SongoftheFlute...........................................................246WishingBook...............................................................251 Raggedy Ann Stories...............................................255 Preface and RaggedyRaggedyRaggedyRaggedyRaggedyIntroductionDedication.........................................................257..........................................................................259AnnLearnsaLesson..............................................261AnnandtheWashing............................................267AnnandtheKite....................................................271AnnRescuesFido..................................................276AnnandthePainter...............................................281 Raggedy Ann’s Trip on the River .........................................286 Raggedy Ann and the Strange Dolls .....................................290
Starts Off.......................................................325
Uncle Wiggily Fido
Continued
Selected Stories for Young
and the Chickens............................................306
Raggedy Ann the
and the Kittens ...............................................296
Raggedy Ann
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Wiggily’s Adventures................................... 323
New Sister ....................................................317
Uncle Wiggily
and the Black Crow.......................................335
Flip-Flop .........................................340
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Raggedy Ann
and
Mouse ................................................311
Uncle Wiggily
Uncle Wiggily
and the Fairies’ Gift ........................................302
Uncle
Goes Fishing..................................................330
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Looking Forward
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The Child Alone The Unseen Playmate

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My Kingdom
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The Land of Story-Books



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Nest Eggs

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The Flowers

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Summer Sun

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The Dumb Soldier



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Baby, Sleep





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Lullaby

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Uncle Wiggily’s Adventures
If you are not familiar with Uncle Wiggily stories, the following letter, which was found inside an old copy of the book, best explains their value. “Once upon a time when I was a little girl , this was my favorite story-telling time--to be read from Uncle Wiggly’s Adventures. My Aunt read it to me every night on Monday through Friday just before bedtime. I wish I had all those stories there must have been hundreds, because she read new ones to me for years every summer and she had cut them out and kept them until I came up to see her when school was out for summer vacation each year. And what I liked best was that the characters in the stories had real personalities and were very quaint and interesting and quite believable. Also they talked to each other a lot and had friendly conversations that taught me how to treat other people and how to think about some everyday problems and find answers sometimes. Old Uncle Wiggily was a very patient and friendly and wise Rabbit a lot like my grandmother and also like my great-uncle. I hope you know people like that in your everyday life, too since wise, loving rabbits are pretty hard to find.”
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Sources of Selected Stories for Young Children





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