STORIES FOR CHILDREN FIVE AND SIX YEARS OLD.
Reading edition
As I walked over the hills one day. (Poem by Mrs. Carter.)
Best versions:
Chisholm. Golden staircase. Wiggin and Smith. Pinafore Palace.
Bremen town musicians.
Best versions:
Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas. Scudder. Fables and folk stories.
Dame Wiggin of Lee and her seven wonderful cats.
Best versions:
Dame Wiggin of Lee and seven wonderful cats. Norton. Heart of oak books, v. 2. O'Shea. Six nursery classics.
Doll in the grass.
Best versions:
Asbjoernsen. Fairy tales from the far north. Wiggin and Smith. Fairy ring.
Epaminondas.
Best versions:
Bryant. Stories to tell to children. Bryant. Best stories to tell.
The Hobyahs.
Best version:
Jacobs. More English fairy tales.
The Half Chick or Medio Pollito.[3]
How the camel got his hump.
Kipling. Just so stories.
Johnny cake or Wee bannock.[4]
The Jumblies. (Poem by Lear.)
Lear. Nonsense Songs.
Lambikin.
Best version:
Jacobs. Indian fairy tales.
Other versions:
Bryant. Stories to tell. Steel. Tales of the Punjab.
Little grey pony.
Lindsay. Mother stories.
Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes.[4]
Little red hen and the grain of wheat.
Best version:
Bryant. Stories to tell.
Other versions:
Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable.
Mother Hulda or Mother Holle.
Best version:
Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas.
Other versions:
Blaisdell. Child life in many lands. Lang. Red fairy book.
Night before Christmas. (Poem by Clement C. Moore.)
Moore. Night before Christmas; il. by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Moore. Night before Christmas (linen picture book).
Ole Shut-Eye stories.
Best versions:
Andersen. Wonder stories. Andersen. Fairy tales.
Peter Rabbit plays a joke.
Burgess. Old Mother West Wind.
Quick running squash.
Aspinwall. Short stories for short people.
Rat princess.
Bryant. How to tell stories.
The sheep and the pig who set up house-keeping.
Best version:
Thomsen. East o' the sun.
Other versions:
Asbjoernsen. Fairy tales from the far north. (Ram and the pig.) Asbjoernsen. Tales from the fjeld. Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. (Adapted.) Wiggin and Smith. Fairy ring.
Snow White and Rose Red. [5]
Spotty the turtle wins a race.
Burgess. Old Mother West Wind.
Stolen charm.
Best version:
Williston. Japanese fairy tales. 1st series.
The straw, the coal and the bean.
Best version:
Grimm. Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas.
Other versions:
Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. (Why the bean wears a stripe.)
Blaisdell. Child life in many lands. Strong. All the year round; Spring.
The sun and the wind.
Best version:
Aesop. Fables; ed. by Jacobs.
Three bears.[6]
Timothy's shoes.
Ewing. Lob-Lie-by-the-fire; and other tales.(To be adapted)
Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.
Best version:
Jacobs. English fairy tales.
Tom, the Water baby.
Kingsley. Water babies, Ch. 1. (To be adapted.)
Why all men love the moon.
Best version:
Holbrook. Book of nature myths.
Other versions:
Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable. (Sun, the moon and the wind.) Jacobs. Indian fairy tales. (Sun, moon and wind go to dinner.)
Who stole the bird's nest? (Poem by L.M. Child.)
Best version:
Wiggin and Smith. Posy Ring.
Other versions:
Lovejoy. Nature in verse. Waterman. Graded memory selections.
Why the evergreens never lose their leaves.
Best version:
Holbrook. Book of nature myths.
The wise men of Gotham.
Best version:
Jacobs. More English fairy tales.
The wolf and the seven little goats.
Best version:
Grimm. Household stories tr. by Crane.
Other versions:
Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable. (Adapted.) (Wolf and seven little goslings.) Grimm. Fairy tales. (Wolf and the seven young kids.) Mulock. Fairy book. (Wolf and the seven young goslings.)