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Types of Children's Literature A Collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, For Use in Colleges, Normal Schools and Library Schools

Types of Children's Literature A Collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, For Use in Colleges, Normal Schools and Library Schools

by Walter Barnes

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Editor
Barnes, Walter, 1880-1969
Credits
Produced by Curtis Weyant, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Children's literature
Category
Text
eBook-No.
6588
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6588
Release Date
September 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.TYPES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE — COLLECTED AND EDITED
  2. 2.PREFACE — CONTENTS
  3. 3.BOOK ONE—POETRY — NURSERY JINGLES — SOME CHILDREN'S POETS — BALLADS — LYRICS — BOOK TWO — STORIES — FAIRY STORIES AND NURSERY TALES — MYTHS AND LEGENDS — OTHER PROSE FORMS — APPENDIX
  4. 4.TYPES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE — NURSERY JINGLES
  5. 5.SOME CHILDREN'S POETS — PIPING DOWN THE VALLEYS WILD — THE LAMB — LAUGHING SONG
  6. 6.CHRISTINA ROSSETTI — THE WIND — THE CITY MOUSE AND THE GARDEN MOUSE — LULLABY — THE SISTERS
  7. 7.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON — THE WIND — WINDY NIGHTS — THE WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN — MY BED IS A BOAT — THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE — THE LAND OF STORYBOOKS
  8. 8.LUCY LARCOM — IF I WERE A SUNBEAM — THE RIVULET — THE BROWN THRUSH
  9. 9.ANN AND JANE TAYLOR — MEDDLESOME MATTY — THE VIOLET — THE STAR — THE WAY TO BE HAPPY
  10. 10.ISAAC WATTS — AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF — A MORNING SONG
  11. 11.A CRADLE HYMN
  12. 12.LEWIS CARROLL — JABBERWOCKY — YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM — THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
  13. 13.EDWARD LEAR — THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT — THE JUMBLIES — BALLADS
  14. 14.POPULAR — BONNY BARBARA ALLAN — SIR PATRICK SPENCE — ROBIN HOOD AND ALLIN A DALE — KINMONT WILLIE — MODERN
  15. 15.THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS — LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI — LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER — YOUNG LOCHINVAR
  16. 16.HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX
  17. 17.THE REVENGE — I — XII — XIII — LYRICS
  18. 18.OUR COUNTRY — AMERICA — MY NATIVE LAND — COLUMBUS — THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND — CONCORD HYMN — OLD IRONSIDES — O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
  19. 19.LOVE LYRICS — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS — SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY — A RED, RED ROSE
  20. 20.POEMS OF NATURE — THE GREENWOOD TREE — A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA
  21. 21.LYRICS — I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD — THE RHODORA ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? — TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN — THE EAGLE — ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET
  22. 22.LESSONS FROM NATURE — TO A WATERFOWL — THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS — THE BUGLE SONG
  23. 23.SONGS OF LIFE — THE NOBLE NATURE — THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE — SAY NOT, THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH — FOR A' THAT AN' A' THAT — INVICTUS — OPPORTUNITY — A PSALM OF LIFE
  24. 24.AESOP — THE DOG AND THE SHADOW — THE FOX AND THE GRAPES — THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE — THE SHEPHERD'S BOY — THE HUSBANDMAN AND THE STORK — THE WIND AND THE SUN — THE TORTOISE AND THE GEESE — THE PARTRIDGE AND THE CROW
  25. 25.JEAN DE LA FONTAINE — THE FOX AND THE GRAPES — THE WOLF AND THE STORK — TRADITIONAL
  26. 26.THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG
  27. 27.THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
  28. 28.HANS IN LUCK
  29. 29.THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
  30. 30.CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER
  31. 31.THE HISTORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
  32. 32.THE UGLY DUCKLING — THE FLAX — BLUE BEARD
  33. 33.JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
  34. 34.THE ELVES
  35. 35.THE FROG-PRINCE
  36. 36.THE QUERN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
  37. 37.BROTHER RABBIT AND BROTHER BULL-FROG
  38. 38.BROWNIE AND THE COOK — THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER; OR, THE BLACK BROTHERS
  39. 39.CHAPTER I
  40. 40.CHAPTER II
  41. 41.CHAPTER III
  42. 42.CHAPTER IV
  43. 43.CHAPTER V — THE ORIENTAL WONDER STORY
  44. 44.THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP — MYTHS AND LEGENDS
  45. 45.THE GORGON'S HEAD — PART I
  46. 46.PART II — PART III — PART IV
  47. 47.THOR GOES A-FISHING
  48. 48.BALDUR — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV — PART V
  49. 49.SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
  50. 50.THE REPRODUCTION — THE TEMPEST — DIDACTIC STORIES
  51. 51.THE PURPLE JAR
  52. 52.DIFFERENCE AND AGREEMENT; OR, SUNDAY MORNING
  53. 53.EYES, AND NO EYES; OR, THE ART OF SEEING — ANIMAL SKETCHES AND STORIES
  54. 54.RAB AND HIS FRIENDS — THE BUSY BLUE JAY — I — II
  55. 55.A CRY IN THE NIGHT — SELECTIONS FROM THE BIBLE
  56. 56.THE STORY OF JOSEPH
  57. 57.THE STORY OF SAMSON
  58. 58.SOME PSALMS OF DAVID — PSALM 1 — PSALM 19 — PSALM 23 — CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT — PAUL'S DISCOURSE ON CHARITY
  59. 59.LETTERS — LEWIS CARROLL TO MISS STANDEN
  60. 60.THOMAS HOOD TO MISS ELLIOT — CHARLES DICKENS TO MASTER HUGHES — DOUGHTY STREET, LONDON
  61. 61.TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER
  62. 62.OF STUDIES
  63. 63.THE AMERICAN BOY — ORATIONS
  64. 64.GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH
  65. 65.SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS
  66. 66.ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG — APPENDIX — COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE — COLLECTIONS OF MOTHER GOOSE VERSES — CHILDREN'S POETS — ANTHOLOGIES OF CHILDREN'S POETRY — FAIRY STORIES — NEGRO FOLK TALES — MODERN FAIRY TALES — HOMERIC STORIES — MYTHS — HERO STORIES — ANIMAL AND NATURE STORIES AND SKETCHES — MISCELLANEOUS STORIES — BOOKS ON CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
  67. 67.NOTES

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