Journeys through Bookland - a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922) (14750182806)

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Title: Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Chicago : Bellows-Reeve
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e authors deep insight into humannature, his brilliant style and shrewd, kindly phil-osophy held the old reader more closely than hadan\i:hing before. So will it be with many of thebooks in the list. If we are to make friends, letus meet them as early as we can, see them as oftenas we can, and cling to them as long as we can. In recommending books to children, parents willdo well to remember that books in which youngpeople are not interested will not be read in sucha way as to be profitable. The books in these listsare all interesting in themselves, and there needbe no fear that they will not be read. The childwho has been trained after the manner indicatedin these talks will need little further assistance inmastering these books. Volume I ^sops Fables. There are many good editions published by the variou;*schoolbook houses. That edited by J. H. Stickney and publishedby Ginn & Co. is as good as any, and contains also a supplementwith fables from La Fontaine and Krilof. 5^/i?r?^Wj;
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Supplementary Book Lists 455 A Childs Gaudkn of Veksks, by Robert Louis Htcvenaon. The edition illustrated by E. Mars and H. M. Squire andpublished by Rand, IMcNaily & Co. i.s excellent. Jessie WilcoxiSniith illustrates an edition for Charles Scribners Sons.Lullaby Land, by Eugene Field. This is published in beautiful form by Charles ScribnersSons.Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen. The schoolbook houses publish selections in an attractiveform; Blackie and Son, London, a cheap edition.Fairy Tales, by Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm. Selections, such as those edited by Sarah E. Wiltse for Ginn& Co., are better than the complete editions, for many of theGrimm tales are coarse and valueless.Blxje Fairy Book and Green Fairy Book, by Andreio Ijong. Besides some of the Grimm tales these books contain folklorestories from many nations. Lang has edited other books in thisseries, but two are probably enough.The Adventures of a Brownie, by Dinah Maria (.Unlock) Craik. This is a charming li