ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Reading edition
Thanks are due to the following publishers and authors for permission to reprint poems and to adapt stories on which they hold copyright:
Charles Scribner’s Sons:
“Singing”; “Autumn Fires” by Robert Louis Stevenson from “Poems and Ballads” (copyright 1895, 1896).
Houghton, Mifflin & Company:
“Sir Robin” from “Childhood Songs” by Lucy Larcom; “A Flock of Doves” from “Poems for Children” by Celia Thaxter; “What the Winds Bring” by Edmund Clarence Stedman; “Hiawatha”; “The Children’s Hour”; “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; “The Miraculous Pitcher”; “The Pomegranate Seed” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Kindergarten Literature Company:
“The Bluebird” from “Songs from the Nest” by Emily Huntington Miller.
Little, Brown & Company:
“September” by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company:
“The Caterpillar” from “Finger Plays” by Emilie Poulsson.
The Macmillan Company:
“The Fairy’s Love Song” by Ella Higginson.
Milton Bradley Company:
“Patty’s New Dress” from “More Mother Stories” by Maud Lindsay; “The Teeter” from “Rhymes for Little Fingers” by Maud Burnham.
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge:
“Mary’s Meadow” by Juliana Horatio Ewing.
The Phelps Publishing Company:
“Pop-corn Song” by Sophia T. Newman. From “Good Housekeeping.”
The Youth’s Companion:
“The Calico’s Story”; “The Nixie’s Strain” by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.
F. A. Owen Publishing Company:
“The Story of a Little Water Drop” by Eva Mayne.