Preface
Acknowledgements
ALPHABETS
Introduction
JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS (1592–1670)
From Orbis Pictus
The Childes Guide (1667)
In Adams Fall
A Little Book for Children (ca. 1705)
A Was an Archer
The Picture Alphabet (ca. 1830)
A Was an Archer
The Instructive Alphabet (1814)
At Early Dawn
The Child’s New Play-Thing (1742)
A Was an Apple-Pie
KATE GREENAWAY (1846–1901)
From A Apple Pie
EDWARD LEAR (1812–1888)
The Absolutely Abstemious Ass
THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL (1904–1991)
From Dr. Seuss’s ABC
ALICE PROVENSEN (b. 1918) and MARTIN PROVENSEN (1916–1987)
A Peaceable Kingdom
The Shaker Abecedarius
CHAPBOOKS
Introduction
Tom Thumb (1790–1810)
Jack the Giant Killer (ca. 1845–50)
The History of Goody Two-Shoes (ca. 1800)
Children in the Wood (ca. 1800)
The History of Sir Richard Whittington and His Cat (ca. 1840)
The Art of Making Money Plenty (1817)
The New-York Cries (1826)
PRIMERS AND READERS
Introduction
The New England Primer (1690)
From A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744)
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825)
From Lessons for Children
New Canadian Readers (1881-1901)
A First Reader
Preface
Chicken Little
Fun with Dick and Jane (1940)
Jane Helps
ARNOLD LOBEL (1933–1987)
Frog and Toad Are Friends
A List
Frog and Toad Together
The Letter
Texts and Contexts: WRITING
Writing sheet (1809)
The Copybook (nineteenth century)
Happy Hippos (twenty-first century)
JOHN NEWBERY (1713–1767)
Letters on the Most Common, as Well as Most Important, Occasions of Life
Occasions in Life
The Preface
Instruction for Epistolary Writing
Queen Ann Boleyn’s Last Letter to King Henry VIII
LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
From Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
FAIRY TALES
Introduction
CHARLES PERRAULT (1628–1703)
The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots
SARAH FIELDING (1710–1768)
The Governess; or, Little Female Academy
The Story of the Cruel Giant Barbarico, the Good Giant Benefico, and the Little Pretty Dwarf Mignon
JEANNE-MARIE LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT (1711–1780)
Beauty and the Beast
JACOB GRIMM (1785–1863) and WILHELM GRIMM (1786–1859)
Hansel and Gretel
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (1805–1875)
The Nightingale
GEORGE MACDONALD (1824–1905)
The Light Princess
FRANK STOCKTON (1834–1902)
The Griffin and the Minor Canon
OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900)
The Happy Prince
KENNETH GRAHAME (1859–1932)
The Reluctant Dragon
JOHN B. GRUELLE (1880–1938)
The Discontented King
WANDA GÁG (1893–1946)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
LLOYD ALEXANDER (b. 1924)
The Truthful Harp
JOAN AIKEN (1924–2004)
The Faithless Lollybird
TED HUGHES (1930–1998)
The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights
JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939)
Jack and the Devil’s Daughter
JANE YOLEN (b. 1939)
The Lady and the Merman
ROBERT MUNSCH (b. 1945)
The Paper Bag Princess
LAURENCE YEP (b. 1948)
The Phantom Heart
MICHAEL LACAPA (b. 1955)
Antelope Woman: An Antelope Folktale
Texts and Contexts: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
CHARLES PERRAULT (1628–1703)
Little Red Riding Hood
JACOB GRIMM (1785–1863) and WILHELM GRIMM (1786–1859)
Little Red Cap
CHARLES MARELLE (1827–ca. 1892)
The True History of Little Golden-hood
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873–1956)
Little Red Riding-Hood
CATHERINE STORR (1913–2001)
Little Polly Riding Hood
ROALD DAHL (1916–1990)
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
TOMI UNGERER (b. 1931)
Little Red Riding Hood
TONY ROSS (b. 1938)
Little Red Hood: A Classic Story Bent Out of Shape
MICHAEL EMBERLEY (b. 1960)
Ruby
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK (b. 1962)
Wolf
ANIMAL FABLES
Introduction
SAMUEL CROXALL (d. 1752)
Fables of Aesop and Others
The Fox without a Tail
The Fox and the Crow
WILLIAM GODWIN (1756–1836)
Fables Ancient and Modern
The Dog in the Manger
The Ass in the Lion’s Skin
WALTER CRANE (1845–1915)
The Baby’s Own Aesop
The Blind Doe
The Crow and the Pitcher
The Eagle and the Crow
W. H. D. ROUSE (1863–1950)
“The Giant Crab” and Other Tales from Old India
The Crocodile and the Monkey
The Talkative Tortoise
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)
Just-So Stories for Little Children
How the Camel Got His Hump
JAMES THURBER (1894–1961)
Further Fables for Our Time
The Fox and the Crow
Variations on the Theme
ASHLEY BRYAN (b. 1923)
“The Ox of the Wonderful Horns” and Other African Tales
Tortoise, Hare, and the Sweet Potatoes
RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925)
The Sea-Thing Child
CLASSICAL MYTHS
Introduction
WILLIAM GODWIN (1756–1856)
The Pantheon
The Minotaur
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804–1864)
Tanglewood Tales
From The Minotaur
CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819–1875)
The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
How Theseus Slew the Minotaur
LEON GARFIELD (1921–1996) and EDWARD BLISHEN (1920–1996)
The God Beneath the Sea
The Seeds of Power
PADRAIC COLUM (1881–1972)
From The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
LEGENDS
Introduction
ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
History of Robin Hood (1860)
HOWARD PYLE (1853–1911)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood and Little John
ROGER LANCELYN GREEN (1918–1987)
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915)
From The Double Life of Pocahontas
JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939)
John Henry
MARY POPE OSBORNE (b. 1949)
Davy Crockett
RELIGION: JUDEO-CHRISTIAN STORIES
Introduction
JAMES JANEWAY (ca. 1636–1674)
A Token for Children
A Preface Containing Directions
JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)
The Pilgrim’s Progress
ISAAC WATTS (1674–1748)
Divine Songs for Children
Against Quarrelling and Fighting
Against Idleness and Mischief
An Evening Song
The Sluggard
Innocent Play
A Cradle Hymn
HESBA STRETTON (1832–1911)
Jessica’s First Prayer
Chapter III. An Old Friend in a New Dress
Chapter IV. Peeps into Fairy-Land
Chapter V. A New World Opens
Chapter VI. The First Prayer
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904–1991)
Hanukkah in the Poorhouse
TIM RICE (b. 1944)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
FANTASY
Introduction
CATHERINE SINCLAIR (1800–1864)
Holiday House
Chapter IX. Uncle David’s Nonsensical Stories about Giants and Fairies
LUCY LANE CLIFFORD (1846–1929)
The New Mother
L. FRANK BAUM (1856–1919)
The Capture of Father Time
E. NESBIT (1858–1924)
The Phœnix and the Carpet
RUTH PARK (b. 1923)
Playing Beatie Bow
LLOYD ALEXANDER (b. 1924)
The Book of Three
JON SCIESZKA (b. 1954)
Summer Reading Is Killing Me!
SCIENCE FICTION
Introduction
H. G. WELLS (1886–1946)
The Stolen Body
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907–1988)
Podkayne of Mars: Her Life and Times
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN (b. 1948)
The Last Super Bowl Game
VONDA M. McINTYRE (b. 1948)
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
CRAIG STRETE (b. 1950)
The Bleeding Man
PICTURE BOOKS
Introduction
Black-and-White
WANDA GÁG (1893–1946)
From Millions of Cats
MUNRO LEAF (1905–1976); illustrator ROBERT LAWSON (1892–1957)
From The Story of Ferdinand
ROBERT McCLOSKEY (1914–2003)
From Make Way for Ducklings
EDWARD ARDIZZONE (1900–1979)
From Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE (b. 1919); illustrator EDWARD GOREY (1925–2000)
From The Shrinking of Treehorn
RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925); illustrator JAMES MARSHALL (1942–1992)
From Dinner at Alberta’s
ALFRED NOYES (1880–1958); illustrator CHARLES KEEPING (1924–1988)
From The Highwayman
PATRICIA C. McKISSACK (b. 1944); illustrator BRIAN PINKNEY (b. 1961)
From The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG (b. 1949)
From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
DAVID MACAULAY (b. 1946)
BAAA
Color
HEINRICH HOFFMANN (1809–1894)
From Struwwelpeter
KATE GREENAWAY (1846–1901)
From Under the Window
RANDOLPH CALDECOTT (1846–1886)
From Sing a Song of Sixpence
BLANCHE FISHER WRIGHT
From The Real Mother Goose
BERTHA UPTON (1849–1912); illustrator FLORENCE UPTON (1873–1922)
From The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg
HELEN BANNERMAN (1862–1946)
From The Story of Little Black Sambo
JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939); illustrator JERRY PINKNEY (b. 1939)
From Sam and the Tigers
BEATRIX POTTER (1866–1943)
From The Tale of Peter Rabbit
From a letter to Noël Moore (1893)
“Now my dears” (Warne, 1902)
“Now run along” (U.S., 1982)
“One day they were allowed” (Ladybird, 1987)
“Book of the film” version (Warne, 1992)
SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872–1949)
From Clever Bill
JEAN de BRUNHOFF (1899–1937)
From The Story of Babar the Little Elephant
MARJORIE FLACK (1897–1958)
From Angus and the Ducks
ROBERT L. MAY (1905–1976)
From Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
ROGER DUVOISIN (1904–1980)
From The Happy Lion
MAURICE SENDAK (b. 1928)
From Where the Wild Things Are
EZRA JACK KEATS (1916–1983)
From The Snowy Day
THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL (1904–1991)
From Green Eggs and Ham
ARNOLD LOBEL (1933–1987)
From Frog and Toad Are Friends
RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934)
From Fungus the Bogeyman
ERIC CARLE (b. 1929)
From The Very Hungry Caterpillar
PAT HUTCHINS (b. 1942)
From Rosie’s Walk
RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925); illustrator QUENTIN BLAKE (b. 1932)
From How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934)
From The Snowman
JENNY WAGNER (b. 1939); illustrator RON BROOKS (b. 1948)
From John Brown, Rose, and the Midnight Cat
ALLAN AHLBERG (b. 1938); illustrator JANET AHLBERG (1944–1994)
From Each Peach Pear Plum
JOHN BURNINGHAM (b. 1936)
From Come Away from the Water, Shirley
DONALD HALL (b. 1928); illustrator BARBARA COONEY (1917–2000)
From The Ox-Cart Man
MEM FOX (b. 1946); illustrator JULIE VIVAS (b. 1947)
From Possum Magic
GABRIELLE VINCENT [MONIQUE MARTIN] (1928–2000)
From Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine
DAVID McKEE (b. 1935)
From I Hate My Teddy Bear
DENNIS LEE (b. 1938); illustrator MARY-LOUISE GAY (b. 1952)
From Lizzy’s Lion
LYNLEY DODD (b. 1941)
From Hairy Maclary’s Caterwaul Caper
DAVID MACAULAY (b. 1946)
From Black and White
JON SCIESZKA (b. 1954); illustrator LANE SMITH (b. 1959)
From The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
COMICS
Introduction
From Funny Folks (1887)
From Impossible Adventures (ca. 1888)
From The Yellow Kid, No. 1 (1897)
WINSOR McCAY (1869–1934)
From Little Nemo in Slumberland
From The Funnies, No. 1 (1929)
HERGÉ (GEORGES RÉMI, 1907–1993)
From Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930)
From Tintin in America (1954)
WALT DISNEY (1901–1966) and FLOYD GOTTFREDSON (1905–1986)
From Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine (1935)
JOE SHUSTER (1914–1992), with text by JERRY SIEGEL (1914–1996)
From Action Comics, No. 1 (1938)
FRANK HAMPSON (1918–1985)
From Eagle, No. 1 (1950)
ALBERT UDERZO (b. 1927), with text by RENÉ GOSCINNY (1926–1977)
From Asterix in Britain (1966)
Marvel Comics
SAL BUSCEMA and JOE SINNOTT
From The Hulk (1982)
STEVEN GRANT, JOHN TARTAGLIONE, JOE SINNOTT, JIM NOVAK, MARIE SEVERIN
From The Life of Pope John Paul II
VERSE
Introduction
Lullabies and Baby Songs
All the Pretty Little Horses
Go to Sleepy, Little Baby
[A Baby Song]
Rocky Bye Baby
[Bye, O my baby]
[Baby, baby, naughty baby]
[Baby and I]
[Bye, baby bunting]
[Hush-a-bye, baby]
[Hush-a-ba, babie, lie still, lie still]
[Hush-a-bye, lie still and sleep]
Cradle Song
[Hush-a-bye a baa-lamb]
[Norwegian Lullaby]
Raisins and Almonds
All Through the Night
[He’ll toil for thee the whole day long]
The Little Orphan (by Robert Elice)
Lullaby of a Convict to Her Child (by Henry Kirke White)
[Sleep, baby, sleep] (by Robert Ellice)
Wynken, Blynken and Nod (by Eugene Field)
Nursery Verse
[How many days has my baby to play?]
[Jeremiah, blow the fire]
[Daffy-Down-Dilly has come up to town]
[Lavender’s blue, diddle, diddle]
[Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross]
[Baa, baa, black sheep]
[Little Bo-peep]
[Little boy blue]
[Three blind mice]
[Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail]
[There was an owl lived in an oak]
[Dickery, dickery, dare]
[The man in the moon]
[Pease porridge hot]
[Hey diddle diddle]
[Jack and Jill]
[Little Jack Horner]
[There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all]
[There was an old woman / And nothing she had]
[There was an old woman who lived in a shoe]
[Poor old Robinson Crusoe!]
[For the want of a nail]
[One fine day in the middle of the night]
[Doctor Faustus was a good man]
[Blessed be the memory]
[Three wise men of Gotham]
[Miss Buss and Miss Beale]
[I’ll tell you a story]
[Wee Willie Winkie]
Riddles and Wordplay
[Riddle me, riddle me ree]
[Hyder iddle diddle dell]
JOHN COTTON (b. 1925)
Totleigh Riddles
Texts and Contexts: TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR
JANE TAYLOR (1783–1824)
The Star
LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
[Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat]
UNK WHITE (1900-1986)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Southern Cross (folk version)
ANONYMOUS
Ringo, Ringo, Ringo Starr (American folk version)
JOHN AGARD (b. 1949)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Firefly (Caribbean version)
Playground Verse
[How Many Miles to Babylon?]
[Ear-r-r-r-r-ly in the morning]
[Down to the carpet you must go]
[Shortenin’ bread]
[Little Sally Water]
[Little Sally Walker]
[All hid?]
Nonsense
EDWARD LEAR (1812–1888)
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Jumblies
LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
How doth the little crocodile
‘Tis the voice of the Lobster
Jabberwocky
NANCY WILLARD (b. 1936)
William Blake’s Inn for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
The Wise Cow Makes Way, Room, and Believe
Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way
MARGARET MAHY (b. 1936)
17 Kings and 42 Elephants
Poetry Collections
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830–1894)
Sing-Song
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850–1894)
A Child’s Garden of Verses
To Alison Cunningham
Bed in Summer
A Thought
At the Seaside
Young Night Thought
Whole Duty of Children
Rain
Pirate Story
Foreign Lands
Windy Nights
Travels
Singing
Looking Forward
A Good Play
Where Go the Boats?
Auntie’s Skirts
The Land of Counterpane
The Island of Nod
My Shadow
System
A Good Boy
Escape at Bedtime
Marching Song
The Cow
Happy Thought
The Wind
Keepsake Mill
Good and Bad Children
Foreign Children
The Sun’s Travels
The Lamplight
My Bed Is a Boat
The Swing
The Moon
Time to Rise
Fairy Bread
Looking-Glass River
From a Railway Carriage
Winter-Time
The Hayloft
Farewell to the Farm
North-West Passage
Child Alone, The
Unseen Playmate, The
My Ship and I
My Kingdom
Picture Books in Winter
My Treasures
Block City
The Land of Story-Books
Armies in the Fire
The Little Land
Garden Days
Night and Day
Nest Eggs
The Flowers
Summer Sun
The Dumb Soldier
Autumn Fires
The Gardener
Historical Associations
Envoys
To Willie and Henrietta
To My Mother
To Auntie
To Minnie
To My Name-Child
To Any Reader
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873–1956)
Peacock Pie
Horseman, The
Alas, Alack!
Tired Tim
Mima
The Huntsman
The Bandog
I Can’t Abear
The Dunce
Chicken
Some One
Bread and Cherries
Old Shellover
Hapless
The Little Bird
Mr. Alacadacca
Not I!
Cake and Sack
Groat nor Tester
The Ship of Rio
Tillie
Jim Jay
Up and Down
Miss T.
The Cupboard
The Barber’s
Hide and Seek
Mrs. Earth
Then
The Window
Poor Henry
Full Moon
The Bookman
The Quartette
Mistletoe
The Lost Shoe
The Truants
The Sea Boy
Must and May
Berries
Off the Ground
The Thief at Robin’s Gate
A Widow’s Weeds
‘Sooeep?’
Mrs. MacQueen
The Little Green Orchard
Poor ‘Miss 7’
Sam
Andy Battle’s and Nod’s Song
Late
The Old Soldier
The Picture
The Little Old Cupid
King David
The Penny Owing
Kings and Queens
The Old House
Unstooping
All But Blind
Nicholas Nye
The Pigs and the Charcoal-Burner
Five Eyes
Tit for Tat
Earth Folk
Grim
Summer Evening
At the Keyhold
The Old Stone House
The Ruin
The Ride-by-Nights
Peak and Puke
The Changeling
The Mocking Fairy
The Honey Robbers
Longlegs
Bewitched
Melmillo
Trees
Silver
Nobody Knows
Will Ever?
Wanderers
Many a Mickle
Snow
The Horseman
The Song and the Secret
The Song of Soldiers
The Bees’ Song
The Song of Enchantment
Dream-Song
The Song of Shadows
The Song of the Mad Prince
The Song of ‘Finis’
ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985)
The Penny Fiddle
The Penny Fiddle
Allie
Robinson Crusoe
The Six Badgers
One Hard Look
Jock o’ Binnorie
What Did I Dream?
Lift-Boy
Henry and Mary
Dicky
Love Without Hope
The Hills of May
In the Wilderness
‘The General Elliott’
Vain and Careless
The Forbidden Play
The Bedpost
The Well-dressed Children
The Magical Picture
The Alice Jean
A Boy in Church
How and Why
Warning to Children
RANDALL JARRELL (1914–1965)
The Bat-Poet
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917–2003)
Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems
Early in the Morning
I Went to Santa Barbara
John Clark
Spin Me a Web, Spider
Tommy Hyde
One for the Man
Mrs McPhee
There Was an Old Woman
Daniel Brent
Freddie Phipps
Charity Chadder
Jeremiah
High on the Wall
Wilbur
My Cat Plumduff
The Owl Looked out of the Ivy Bush
Ring Dove
Baby, Baby
At Linkinhorne
In My Garden
Foxglove
Stone in the Water
Round the Corner Comes Jack Fall
Said the Clown
Janny Jim Jan
Mistletoe
Balloono
Take Me to the Water Fair
Rebekah
Nicholas Naylor
John, John the Baptist
Tell, Tell the Bees
Johnny Come over the Water
I Love My Darling Tractor
Let’s God Ride
Here’s the Reverend Rundle
The Money Came in, Came in
Good Morning, Mr Croco-docodile
When I Was a Boy
I Am the Song
LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)
Some of the Days of Everett Anderson
Monday Morning Good Morning
Tuesday All Day Rain
Wednesday Noon Adventure
Thursday Evening
Friday Waiting for Mom
Friday Mom Is home Payday
Saturday Night Late
Sunday Morning Lonely
Sunday Night Good
PAT MORA (b. 1942)
Confetti: Poems for Children
Sun Song
Colors Crackle, Colors Roar
Purple Snake
Can I, Can I Catch the Wind
Cloud Dragons
Castanet Clicks
Mexican Magician
Leaf Soup
I Hear, I Hear
Dancing Paper
Abuelita’s Lap
Words Free As Confetti
River Voice
MARILYN NELSON (b. 1946)
Carver: A Life in Poems
Out of “Slave’s Ransom”
Prayer of the Ivory-Handled Knife
Washboard Wizard
A Ship Without a Rudder
Curve-Breaker
My People
From an Alabama Farmer
The Sweet-Hearts
The Joy of Sewing
Veil Raisers
How a Dream Dies
The Wild Garden
Professor Carver’s Bible Class
Friends in the Clan
Driving Dr. Carver
Baby Carver
Last Talk with Jim Hardwick
GRACE NICHOLS (b. 1950)
Come On into My Tropical Garden
Come on into My Tropical Garden
Alligator
I Like to Stay Up
They Were My People
Poor Grandma
Riddle
Granny Granny Please Comb My Hair
My Cousin Melda
Wha Me Mudder Do
The Fastest Belt in Town
Moody Mister Sometimish
Mango
Banana Man
Drinking Water-coconut
Early Country Village Morning
The Sun
Sky
I Am the Rain
Lizard
Dinosaurs
Cow’s Complaint
Old Man’s Weary thoughts
I’m a Parrot
Parakeets
Doctor Blair
For Forest
Sea Timeless Song
Crab Dance
PLAYS
Introduction
J. M. BARRIE (1860–1937)
Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
BARBARA FIELD (b. 1933)
A Christmas Carol
LAURENCE YEP (b. 1948)
Dragonwings
BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION
Introduction
Conduct Books for Boys
From The Father’s Legacy; or, Faithful Counsels of a Good Father to His Children and Friends (1678)
JOHN BARNARD (1685–1764)
From A Present for an Apprentice: or, A Sure Guide to Gain Both Esteem and an Estate
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694–1773)
Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son
Awkwardness of Different Kinds
Bashfulness
Matrimony
Conduct Books for Girls
Duties of a Lady’s Maid (1825)
Familiarity with Superiors
Stays and Corsets
Padding, Bandaging, &c. to Improve the Figure
MINNA THOMAS ANTRIM (b. 1861)
Don’t’s for Girls: A Manual of Mistakes
DORA LANGLOIS
The Child: A Mother’s Advice to Her Daughters
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL (1857–1941)
From Rovering to Success: A Book of Life-Sport for Young Men
ROBIE H. HARRIS (b. 1940); illustrator MICHAEL EMBERLEY (b. 1960)
From It’s Perfectly Normal
The Bird and the Bee
Lots of Questions: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
LIFE WRITING
Introduction
From Facts to Correct Fancies; or, Short Narratives compiled from the Biography of Remarkable Women, written for children, by a Mother (1840)
CLARA L. BALFOUR (1808–1878)
Women Worth Emulating
Chapter III. Miss Caroline Herschel
CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823–1901)
A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and Lands
What Is a Golden Deed?
Fathers and Sons (1642–1798)
THE BROWNIES’ BOOK (1920–1921)
Benjamin Banneker
America’s First Martyr-Patriot (Crispus Attucks)
The Story of Phillis Wheatley
“The Bravest of the Brave” (Elizabeth Blakesley)
The Story of Harriet Tubman
ANNE FRANK (1929–1945)
The Diary of a Young Girl
July 11, 1942
July 11, 1943
Jan. 2, 1944
Feb. 12, 1944
Feb. 23, 1944
Aug. 1, 1944
JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915)
Homesick: My Own Story
MILTON MELTZER (b. 1915)
Benjamin Franklin: The New American
Chapter 6. Improve Yourself, Improve Your Community
Chapter 7. Inventor and Scientist
Chapter 8. Disarming the Clouds of Heaven
ADVENTURE STORIES
Introduction
DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660–1731)
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (children’s version, 1823)
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON (1860–1946)
Raggylug: The Story of a Cottontail Rabbit
A. A. MILNE (1882–1956)
Winnie-the Pooh
Chapter VIII. In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
SHANNON GARST (1894–1981)
James Bowie and His Famous Knife
E. L. KONIGSBURG (b. 1930)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
SCHOOL STORIES
Introduction
SARAH FIELDING (1710–1768)
From The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy
THOMAS HUGHES (1822–1896)
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Chapter V. Rugby and Football
Chapter VI. After the Match
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)
Stalky & Co.
An Unsavory Interlude
EVELYN SHARP (1869–1955)
In School
ELEANOR ESTES (1906–1988)
The Hundred Dresses
AIDAN CHAMBERS (b. 1934)
The Present Takers
ALMA FLOR ADA (b. 1938)
My Name is María Isabel
TIM WYNNE-JONES (b. 1948)
Tweedledee and Tweedledead
NIKKI GRIMES (b. 1950)
Bronx Masquerade
DOMESTIC FICTION
Introduction
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797)
From Original Stories from Real Life
MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768–1849)
Lazy Lawrence
The Birth-day Present
MARY MARTHA SHERWOOD (1775–1851)
From The History of the Fairchild Family
CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823–1901)
A Patchwork Fever
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832–1888)
Psyche’s Art
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT (1849–1924)
Editha’s Burglar
L. M. MONTGOMERY (1874–1942)
Each in His Own Tongue
BEVERLY CLEARY (b. 1916)
Ramona and Her Father
LENSEY NAMIOKA (b. 1929)
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
ROCH CARRIER (b. 1937)
The Hockey Sweater
MILDRED D. TAYLOR (b. 1943)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
BRUCE BROOKS (b. 1950)
What Hearts
Out
Timeline
General Bibliography
Selected Bibliographies
List of Illustrations
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index
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