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

Charles Madison Curry

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  • Book language: English
  • 1216 pages

A textbook and source collection for teachers of children's literature, edited by Charles Madison Curry and Erle Elsworth Clippinger. First published around 1920, it gathers essays, introductions, notes, and bibliographies on nursery rhymes, folklore, and classic stories for young readers. It offers historical and practical guidance for anyone who shares literature with children.

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Opening of the book

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 TEACHERTRAINING 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
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THE CONTENTS

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Contents

  1. CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
  2. A TEXTBOOK OF SOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER-TRAINING CLASSES EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES by
  3. CHARLES MADISON CURRY
  4. THE CONTENTS
  5. SECTION I
  6. SELECTED GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
  7. CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
  8. SECTION I. PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  9. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  10. SECTION II
  11. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  12. SECTION II. MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES
  13. SECTION III
  14. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  15. SECTION III: FAIRY STORIES—TRADITIONAL TALES
  16. SECTION IV
  17. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  18. SECTION IV: FAIRY STORIES—MODERN FANTASTIC TALES
  19. SECTION V
  20. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  21. SECTION V: FABLES AND SYMBOLIC STORIES
  22. SECTION VI
  23. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  24. SECTION VI. MYTHS
  25. SECTION VII
  26. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  27. SECTION VII. POETRY
  28. SECTION VIII
  29. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  30. SECTION VIII. REALISTIC STORIES

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