SELECTED GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY I. GENERAL COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Tappan, Eva March, The Children's Hour . 10 vols. Neilson, William Patten, and others, The Junior Classics . 10 vols. Sylvester, Charles H., Journeys through Bookland . 10 vols. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, and others, The Young Folks' Library . 30 vols. Mabie, Hamilton Wright, After School Library . 12 vols. Scudder, Horace E., The Children's Book . [Best single-volume collection for early grades.] Barnes, Walter, Types of Children's Literature . II. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Darton, F. J. Harvey, "Children's Books," in Cambridge History of English Literature , Vol. XI, chap. xvi. [Best brief account of development in England. Elaborate bibliography.] Tassin, Algernon, "Books for Children," in Cambridge History of American Literature , Vol. II, chap. vii. [Best account of American development. Extended bibliography.] Field, Mrs. E. M., The Child and His Book . The history and progress of children's literature in England. [Stops with 1826.] Moses, Montrose J., Children's Books and Reading . [Deals with both English and American side. Book-lists and bibliographies.] Ashton, John, Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century . Halsey, Rosalie V., Forgotten Books of the American Nursery . Welsh, Charles, A Bookseller of the Last Century . [John Newbery.] "Godfrey, Elizabeth," English Children in the Olden Time . Earle, Florence Morse, Child Life in Colonial Days . III. GUIDES IN TEACHING 1. SPECIFIC PEDAGOGY Barnes, Walter, English in the Country School . Carpenter, G. R., Baker, F. T., and Scott, F. N., The Teaching of English . [Pp. 155-187, "Literature in the Elementary Schools," by Professor Baker.] Chubb, Percival, The Teaching of English . Cox, John Harrington, Literature in the Common School . Barron, Julia S., Bacon, Corinne, and Dana, J. C., Course of Study for Normal School Pupils on Literature for Children . [A syllabus.] Hosic, James Fleming, The Elementary Course in English . MacClintock, Porter Lander, Literature in the Elementary School . McMurry, Charles A., Special Method in Reading in the Grades . Welch, John S., Literature in the School: Aims, Methods, and Interpretations . 2. MORE GENERAL AND INSPIRATIONAL Bates, Arlo, Talks on the Teaching of Literature . Bennett, Arnold, Literary Taste and How to Form It . Colby, J. Rose, Literature and Life in School . Kerfoot, J. B., How to Read . Lee, Gerald Stanley, The Child and the Book . Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, On the Art of Reading . [Children's Literature.] Scudder, Horace E., Literature in the Schools . Smith, C. Alphonso, What Can Literature Do for Me? Woodberry, George E., The Appreciation of Literature . The Heart of Man . 3. GUIDES TO BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Arnold, Gertrude W., A Mother's List of Books for Children . Field, Walter Taylor, Fingerposts to Children's Reading . Hunt, Clara W., What Shall We Read to the Children? Lowe, Orton, Literature for Children . Macy, John, A Child's Guide to Reading . Moore, Annie Carroll, Roads to Childhood . Olcott, Frances Jenkins, The Children's Reading . One Thousand Good Books for Children. [Classified and graded list prepared by National Congress of Mothers' Literature Committee, Alice M. Jordan, Chairman. Issued by U. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., as Home Education Circular No. 1.] Stevens, David Harrison, The Home Guide to Good Reading . IV. BOOKS ON STORY-TELLING Allison, S. B., and Perdue, H. A., The Story in Primary Education . Bailey, Carolyn Sherman, For the Story-Teller . Bryant, Sarah Cone, How to Tell Stories to Children . Stories to Tell to Children. [Introduction.] Cather, Katherine D., Educating by Story-Telling . Cowles, Julia D., The Art of Story-Telling . Cross, Allen, and Statler, Nellie M., Story-Telling for Upper Grades . Forbush, William B., Manual of Stories . Horne, H. H., Story-Telling, Questioning, and Studying . Keyes, Angela M., Stories and Story-Telling . Kready, Laura F., A Study of Fairy Tales . [Chap. iii, "The Telling of Fairy Tales."] Lindsay, Maud, The Story-Teller for Little Children . Lyman, Edna, Story Telling: What to Tell and How to Tell It . McMurry, Charles A., Special Method in Reading in the Grades . Moore, Annie C., Article "Story-Telling," Cyclopedia of Education . [Ed. Monroe.] Partridge, Emelyn N., and George E., Story-Telling in the School and Home . Shedlock, Marie L., The Art of the Story-Teller . St. John, Edward Porter, Stories and Story-Telling in Moral and Religious Education . Wiltse, Sara E., The Place of the Story in Early Education . Wyche, Richard Thomas, Some Great Stories and How to Tell Them . V. ON DRAMATIZATION Briggs, T. H., and Coffman, L. D., Reading in Public Schools . [Chap. x, "Dramatic Reading," and chap. xxiii, "Dramatics."] Curtis, Elnora W., The Dramatic Instinct in Education . Finlay-Johnson, Harriet, The Dramatic Method of Teaching . Gesell, Arnold L., and Beatrice C., The Normal Child and Primary Education . [Chapter on "Dramatic Expression."] Herts, Alice M., The Children's Educational Theatre . Nixon, Lillian E., Fairy Tales a Child Can Read and Act . VI. THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN Moulton, Richard Green, A Short Introduction to the Literature of the Bible . The simplest and best discussion for teachers of the Bible as literature. The books that follow are good sources for story material from the Bible. Baldwin, James, Old Stories from the East . Hodges, George, The Garden of Eden . The Castle of Zion. When the King Came. Houghton, Louise Seymour, Telling Bible Stories . Moulton, Richard Green, Bible Stories: Old Testament . Bible Stories: New Testament. [Two volumes of The Modern Reader's Bible for Children . The only variations from the text are by omissions.] Olcott, Frances Jenkins, Bible Stories to Read and Tell . Smith, Nora Archibald, Old, Old Tales from the Old, Old Book . Stewart, Mary, " Tell Me a True Story ." VII. SOME INTERPRETATIONS OF CHILDHOOD Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, The Story of a Bad Boy . Du Bois, Patterson, Beckonings from Little Hands . Gilson, Roy Rolfe, In the Morning Glow . Grahame, Kenneth, Dream Days . The Golden Age . Howells, William Dean, A Boy's Town . Kelly, Myra, Little Citizens . Larcom, Lucy, A New England Girlhood . Loti, Pierre, The Story of a Child . Martin, George Madden, Emmy Lou, Her Book and Heart . Masters, Edgar Lee, Mitch Miller . Pater, Walter, The Child in the House . Shute, Henry A., The Real Diary of a Real Boy . Smith, William Hawley, The Evolution of Dodd . Stuart, Ruth McEnery, Sonny . Walpole, Hugh, Jeremy . Warner, Charles Dudley, On Being a Boy . White, William Allen, The Court of Boyville . VIII. SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BACKGROUND Addams, Jane, Youth and Our City Streets . Adler, Felix, The Moral Instruction of Children . Antin, Mary,