Anthology of children's literature
An anthology of nursery rhymes, poetry, epics, mythology and folklore, fiction, and non-fiction for children. Appendices include notes on storytelling, the history of children's literature, illustrators of children's books, children's book awards, graded reading lists, and biographica...
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Boston,
Houghton Mifflin
[1970]
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Around the world in nursery rhymes : Mother Goose nursery rhymes / Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake
- This little pig went to market
- To market, to market
- Hickory, dickory, dock
- Bye, baby bunting
- Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top
- Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green
- Hey, diddle, diddle
- Ding, dong, bell
- Pussy cat, pussy cat
- Little boy blue
- Little Miss Muffet
- Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross
- Baa, baa, black sheep
- Little Jack Horner
- Little Tommy Tucker
- Tom, Tom, the piper's son
- Mary, Mary, quite contrary
- Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie
- Hickety, pickety, my black hen
- Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall
- A dillar, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
- Hark, hark, the dogs do bark
- Goosey, goosey gander
- Great A, little a
- Rub-a-dub dub, three men in a tub
- Jack be nimble
- Bow, wow, wow
- Barber, barber, shave a pig
- Bless you, bless you, Burnie-Bee
- Rain, rain, go away
- The north wind doth blow
- As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks
- Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John
- Lucy Locket lost her pocket
- Peter, Peter , pumpkin eater
- Curly locks, curly locks
- Jack Sprat could eat no fat
- Cock a doodle doo!
- I had a little pony
- If I had a donkey that wouldn't go
- Jack and Jill went up the hill
- Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep
- Cushy cow, bonny, let down your milk
- A farmer went trotting upon his grey mare
- Boys and girls come out to play
- What are little boys made of?
- Charley Wag, Charlie Wag
- A cat came fiddling out of a barn
- I had a little hen
- I'll tell you a story
- How many miles to Babylon?
- There was a little man and he had a little gun
- As I was going to Banbury
- Six little mice sat down to spin
- Three young rats with black felt hats
- Hot-cross buns
- Cross patch
- I saw a ship a-sailing
- Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town
- Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea
- I had a little nut tree
- Gray goose and gander
- Johnny shall have a new bonnet
- Lavender's blue
- I love sixpence
- If I'd as much money as I could spend
- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
- There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
- There was an old woman who had three sons
- There was an old woman, as I've heard tell
- There was a crooked man
- Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
- Solomon Grundy
- The lion and the unicorn
- When good King Arthur ruled this land
- Old King Cole
- A carrion crow sat on a oak
- Four and twenty tailors
- Snail, snail
- Mr. East gave a feast
- See a pin and pick it up
- Where are you going, my pretty maid?
- One misty, moisty morning
- What's in the cupboard?
- I had a little husband
- My little old man and I fell out
- As I was going to sell my eggs
- Simple SImon met a pieman
- The queen of hearts
- This is the house that Jack built
- Dame, get up and bake your pies
- I saw three ships come sailing by
- Thirty days hath September
- The boughs do shake and the bells do ring
- Mother Goose ballads : Old Mother Goose when she wanted to wander
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Jenny Wren fell sick
- Who killed Cock Robin?
- A frog he would a-wooing go
- There were three jovial Welshmen
- Can you make a cambric shirt
- John Newberry's Mother Goose : Three wise men of Gotham
- There was an old man, and he had a calf
- There was an old woman lived under the hil
- See saw, Margery Daw
- Here's A, B, and C
- There was a man of Thessaly
- Singing games, jingles, counting-out rhymes : One, two, buckle my shoe
- Sing a song of sixpence
- Pease porridge hot
- London Bridge is broken down
- Gay go up and gay go down
- Lady Queen Anne she sits in the sun
- Oh, the brave old Duke of York
- Pop goes the weasel
- The twelve days of Christmas
- I am a gold lock
- I went up one pair of stairs
- See-saw sacradown
- Intery, mintery, cutery corn
- Eins, zwei, polizei
- Un, deux, j'irai dans le bois
- Une fill' a battu
- Riddles, paradoxes, tongue trippers : Long legs, crooked thighs
- Thirty white horses
- In marble halls as white as milk
- As round as an apple
- Black within and red without
- Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess
- I have a little sister, they call her Peep, Peep
- Two legs sat on three legs
- Little Nancy Etticoat
- Hick-a-more, hack-a-more
- As I was going to St. Ives
- If all the seas were one sea
- If all the world was apple pie
- I saw a fishpond all on fire
- A man in the wilderness asked me
- Betty Botter bought some butter
- How much wood would a woodchuck chhuck
- Peter Piper pick'd a peck of pepper
- Nursery rhymes of many lands : Little girl (Arabian)
- The five toes (Chinese)
- Lady bug (Chinese)
- Thistle-seed (Chinese)
- Blind man's bluff (Chinese)
- Old Chang the crab (Chinese)
- Fishing (Danish)
- Jonathan (Dutch)
- Gretchen (Dutch)
- The goblin (French)
- Mee, ray, doh (German)
- An angel came as I lay in bed (Hebrew)
- Twelth night (Italian)
- New Year's Day (Japanese)
- Luna, la luna (Mexican)
- Cabillito (Mexican)
- Tradja of Norway (Norwegian)
- Husky hi (Norwegian)
- Mushrooms (Russian)
- Dance to your daddy (Scottish)
- A wee bird sat upon a tree (Scottish)
- Lady, Lady Landers (Scottish)
- The cock and the hen (Scottish)
- Sandy Candy (Scottish)
- John Smith's a very guid man (Scottish)
- Haily paily (Scottish)
- Well I never! (Spanish)
- To the shop (Welsh)
- American chants and jingles : Yankee Doodle went to town
- I asked my mother for fifty cents
- A bear went over the mountain
- I'm going to Lady Washington's
- Monday's child is fair of face
- Five little squirrels sat up in a tree
- I've got a rocket in my pocket
- Bibliography
- Nonsense: Old Greek nonsense rhymes / Little Hermogenes is so small
- Look at Marcus and take warning
- I boiled hot water in the sun
- Christina Rossetti / If a pig wore a wig
- Mr. Punchinello
- Three children sliding on the ice
- Laura E. Richards / Eletelephony; the High Barbaree; the monkeys and the crocodile; Mrs. Snipkin and Mrs. Wobblechin; the owl and the eel and the warming-pan
- Samuel Foote / The great Panjandrum himself
- Charles E. Carryl / The camel's complaint
- Lewis Carroll / The walrus and the carpenter; the voice of the lobster; the crocodile; the white rabbit's verses; jabberwocky; the gardener's song; the beaver's lesson
- Edward Lear / Nonsense alphabet; the jumblies; the owl and the pussy-cat; Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos; the duck and the kangaroo; the quangle wangle's hat; the table and the chair; the broom, the shovel, the poker and the tongs; the courtship of the Yonhy-Bonghy-Bo; limericks
- Hilaire Belloc / The frog; the yak
- Ogden Nash / The eel; the guppy
- David McCord / Up from down under
- James Reeves / Uriconium
- Bibliography
- Picture books : L. Leslie Brook / Johhny Crow's garden
- Beatrix Potter / The tale of Peter Rabbit
- Wanda Gág / Millions of cats
- Elsa Beskow / Pelle's new suit
- Marie Hall Ets / Play with me
- Hardie Gramatky / Little Toot
- Virginia Lee Burton / The little house
- Bibliography
- Fables : Aesop's fables : The wind and the sun; a wolf in sheep's clothing; a lion and a mouse; the shepherd's boy and the wolf; the town mouse and the country mouse; the crow and the pitcher; the dog and his shadow; the fox and the crow; the dog in the manger; the jackdaw and the borrowed plumes; the hare and the tortoise; the goose with the golden eggs; the grasshopper and the ants; the lark and its young; belling the cat; the fox and the grapes; the miller, his son, and the ass
- The Panchatantra and Bidpai fables : The Brâhman's goat; the poor man and the flask of oil; the crow and the partridge; the tiger, the Brâhman, and the jackal
- Jataka tales : The spirit that lived in a tree; the Banyan deer; the hare that ran away
- La Fontaine's fables : Marianne Moore / The dove and the ant; the fox and the goat; the camel and the flotsam; the dairymaid and her milk-pot
- Modern fables : John G. Saxe / The blind men and the elephant
- James Thurber / The moth and the star
- Bibliography
- Germany : Jakob and Wilheim Grimm / The elves; the wolf and the seven little kids; the golden goose; the Bremen Town musicians; the brother and sister
- Wanda Gág / Snow White and the seven dwarfs
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Wanda Gág / Gone is gone
- Richard Rostron / The sorcerer's apprentice
- France : Charles Perrault / Little Red Riding-Hood
- Andrew Lang / Drakestail
- Walter De La Mare / The sleeping beauty
- Andrew Lang / Beauty and the beast
- Charles Perrault / Toads and diamonds
- England : F.A. Steel / The story of the three bears
- Joseph Jacobs / The story of the three little pigs; the old woman and her pig; Henny-Penny; teeny-tiny; Jack and the beanstalk; Molly Whuppie; the three sillies; master of all masters; the well of the world's end; the history of Tom Thumb; Tamlane; the king of the cats
- Walter De La Mare / The hare and tthe hedgehog
- Marcia Brown / Dick Whittington and his cat
- Ireland : Joseph Jacobs / King O'Toole and his goose
- Seumus MacManus / Billy Beg and the bull; the bee, the harp, the mouse, and the bum-clock; jack and the king who was a gentleman
- Padraic Colum / Kate Mary Ellen
- Ella Young / The children of Lir
- Spain : Ruth Sawyer / The flea
- Ralph Boggs and Mary Gould Davis / The tinker and the ghost
- Robert Davis / The general's horse
- Russia : Boris Artzybasheff / Seven Simeons
- Post Wheeler / The little humpbacked horse
- Valéry Carrick / Mr. Samson Cat
- Serge Prokofieff / Peter and the wolf
- Czechoslovakia : Parker Fillmore / Budulinek; the twelve months
- Finland : Parker Fillmore / The bear says "north" ; mighty Mikki
- James Cloyd Bowman and Margery Bianco / Hidden laiva
- Scandinavia : Peter Christen Asbjörnsen / The three billy-goats-gruff; the pancake; the ram and the pig who went into the woods; gudbrand on the hillside; Boots and his brothers; the princess on the glass hill; east o' the sun and west o' the moon; the lad who went to the North Wind; the cat on the Dovrefel
- Mary C. Hatch / The talking pot
- India : Arthur C. Ryder / Numskull and the rabbit
- Sara Cone Bryant / The cat and the parrot
- Arabia ; Andrew Lang / Aladdin and the wonderful lamp
- American regional tales : Alaskan Eskimo tale : Charles E. Gillham / Mr. Crow takes a wife
- Southern Negro tales : Joel Chandler Harris / The wonderful tar-baby; Brer Rabbits astonishing prank
- Southern mountain tale : Richard Chase / Old Fire Dragaman
- Tall tales : Esther Shephard / Paul Bunyan; James Cloyd Bowman / Slue-foot Sue dodges the moon
- Mexico : Catherine Bryan and Mabra Madden / Why the burro lives wiith the man
- Anita Brenner / The princess and José
- Ethiopia : Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau / The goat well
- Bibliography
- Myths of ancient Greece : Edith Hamilton / Demeter
- W.M.L. Hutchinson / Prometheus the firebringer; Pandora
- Elsie Buckley / The curse of Echo
- Edith Hamilton / Cupid and Psyche
- Padraic Colum / Orpheus
- Edith Hamilton / Baucis and Philemon
- Francis Jenkins Olcott / Daphne
- Padraic Colum / Phaethon; Bellerophon
- Josephine Preston Peabody / Icarus and Daedalus
- Peter Lum / Gemini, the twins
- Padraic Colum / Atalanta's race
- Josephine Preston Peabody / The judgment of Midas
- Norse myths : Padraic Colum / Odin goes to Mimir's well; how Frey won Gerda the giant maiden
- Abbie Farwell Brown / The magic apples; Balder and the mistletoe
- Dorothy Hosford / Thor gains his hammer; Thor's unluckey journey
- Abbie Farwell Brown / The quest of the hammer
- North American Indian tales : Stith Thompson / Determinations of the seasons
- Charles Godfrey Leland / How Glooskap found the summer
- Florence Holbrook / The story of the first woodpecker
- Aileen B. Nusbaum / The locust and the coyote
- Frank Hamilton Cushing / How the coyote danced with the blackbirds
- Alice Marriott / Why the ant is almost cut in two
- Stith Thompson / Origin of the Pleiades
- Grace Jackson Penney / How the sevn brothers saved their sister
- Greek legend : Padraic Colum / The seven sleepers
- Bibliography
- Heroes of epic and romance : Greece : Padraic Colum / Odysseus and the Cyclops
- Edith Hamilton / Perseus
- Katherine Pyle / Hercules : the eleventh task
- Charles Kingsley / How Jason lost his sandal in Anauros
- England : Hamilton Wright Mabie / Beowulf's fight with Grendel
- Marion Lansing / How St. George fought the dragon
- Sidney Lanier / King Arthur and his sword
- Howard Pyle / Robin Hood and Little John
- Ireland : Ella Young / The wonder Smith and his son
- Eleanor Hull / Cuchulain's wooing
- Rosemary Sutcliff / Niamh of the golden hair
- Scandinavia : Padraic Colum / Sigurd's youth
- Germany : James Baldwin / Fafnir, the dragon
- France : Merriam Sherwood / The song of Roland
- Spain : Merriam Sherwood / The Cid
- Finland : Babette Deutsch / The Kalevala : the two suitors
- India : Dhan Gpal Mukerji / Rama : the march to Lanka
- Persia : Helen Zimmern / Zal
- Bibliography
- Sacred writings and legends of the saints : Bible selections : Genesis 37-46 / Joseph and his brethren
- Ruth 1-2 / The story of Ruth (abridged)
- Matthew 2 : 1-12 / The visit of the Magi
- Luke 15 : 11-32 / The prodigal son
- I Corinthians 13 / Charity
- Songs from the Bible : Proverbs 4 : 10-19 / The two paths
- Psalm 1 / The tree and the chaff
- Psalm 23 / The Lord is my shepherd
- Psalm 24 / The earth si the Lord's
- Psalm 46 / God is our refuge and our strength
- Psalm 91 / Abiding in the shadow of the Almighty
- Psalm 121 / I will lift up mine eyes
- Prayers : St. Patrick / May the strength of God pilot me
- St. Francis of Assisi / Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
- England 15th century / God be in my head, and in my understanding
- Robert Herrick / Here a little child I stand; what God gives, and what we take
- Christina Rossetti / Lord, purge our eyes to see
- Prayer of the Breton fisherman
- Found in Chester Cathedral (England) / Give me a good digestion, Lord
- A Japanese prayer
- Robert Louis Stevenson / Give us grace and strength
- A prayer of Boethius
- Bibliography
- "Golden words" : "Golden words" from sacred writings : Pattanathu
- From the analects of Confucius
- From Confucius scriptures
- From the way of Lao-tse (Taoist scriptures)
- From the Koran / The brightness
- From the Atharva-Veda (Hindu scriptures) / To heaven and earth
- From the Zoastrian scriptures / The best healing
- From the Book of the Dead (Egyptian)
- From Hafiz (Persian poet)
- From the Hitopadesa (Sanskrit)
- Helen Waddell / St. Jerome and the lion and the donkey
- Mary Gould Davis / The truce of the wolf: a legend of St. Francis of Assisi
- Eleanoe Farjeon / St. Nicholas
- Bibliography
- Fantasy : Margery Williams / The velveteen rabbit (selection)
- E.E. Cummings / The old man who said, "why"
- James Thurber / Many moons
- Rudyard Kipling / Just so stories: how the camel got his hump
- Carl Sanburg / Rootabaga pigeons: the Huckabuck Family and how they raised pop corn
- Hugh Lofting / The story of Dr. Dolittle: the rarest animal of all
- Robert Lawson / Rabbit Hill: little Georgie sings a song
- Carlo Collodi / Adventures of Pinnochio : Pinnochio's first pranks
- Lewis Carroll / Alice's adventures in Wonderland : down the rabbit hole; the rabbit sends in a little bill
- P.L. Travers / Mary Poppins opens the door : the marble boy
- Carolyn Sherwin Bailley / Miss Hickory takes to the air
- Mary Norton / The borrowers (selection)
- C.S. Lewis / Prince Caspian : how they were all very busy
- Pauline Clark / The return of the twelves : the four genii
- Edward Eager / Half magic : what happened to Katherine
- J.R.R. Tolkien / The Hobbit : riddles in the dark
- Lloyd Alexander / The black cauldron : Gwystl
- Kenneth Grahame / The wind in the willows : the wild wood
- Randall Jarrell / The animal family : the mermaid
- Hans Christian Anderson / The real princess; five peas in a pod; Thumbelisa; the wild swans; the steadfast tin soldier; the tinder box; the nightingale; the emperor's new clothes; the ugly duckling; the swineherd
- William Mayne / Earthfasts : this aye night
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / The little prince (selection)
- Bibliography
- Fiction : Rumer Godden / Impunity Jane
- Laura Ingalls Wilder / Little house in the big woods : summertime
- Johanna Spyri / Heidi : in the pasture
- Eleanor Estes / Rufus M. (selection)
- Meindert de Jong / The wheel on the school (selection)
- Sid Fleischman / By the great horn spoon : saved by a whisker
- Carol Ryrie Brink / Caddie Woodlawn : breeches and clogs
- Kate Seredy / The good master : the round-up
- Rachel Lyman Field / Hitty : I go up in the world
- Doris Gates / Blue willow : the shack
- E.L. Konigsburg / From the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Robert McCloskey / Homer Price : the doughnuts
- Mark Twain / The adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom meets Becky
- Elizabeth Enright / Gone-away lake
- Jean George / My side of the mountain : I look at winter
- Elizabeth Coatsworth / The fair American : the new cabin boy
- Caroline Dale Snedeker / Downright Dencey : the former time
- Armstrong Sperry / Call it courage : drums
- Cornelia Lynde Meigs / Master Simon's garden : the edge of the world
- Alice Dalgliesh / The silver pencil (selection)
- Howard Pyle / Men of iron (selection)
- Elizabeth Janet Gray / Adam of the road : a blush of boys
- Eric Philbrook Kelly / The trumpeter of Krakow : the man who wouldn't sell his pumpkin
- Robert Louis Stevenson / Treasure Island (selection)
- Ann Petry / Tituba of Salem Village (selection)
- Esther Forbes / Johnny Tremain : salt-water tea
- Scott O'Dell / The king's fifth (selection)
- Margot Benary-Isbert / The ark : spring
- Anne Holm / North to freedom (selection)
- Poetry : Fairies, fay, and far away : William Allingham / The fairies
- William Shakespeare / "Where the bee sucks" ; "over hill, over dale'
- Author unknown / The elve's dance
- William Shakespeare / Queen Mab; "you spotted snakes"
- Walter de la Mare / Some one
- Edith Sitwell / The king of China's daughter
- William Butler Yeats / The song of wandering Aengus
- Harold Monro / Overheard on a saltmarsh
- John Keats / La bele dame sans merci
- "Bring the day" : Theodore Roehtke / Bring the day
- Walter de la Mare / Softly, drowsily
- Eleanor Farjeon / The sounds in the morning
- William Shakespeare / A morning song
- Myra Cohn Livingston / Whispers
- Robert Louis Stevenson / The little land
- Myra Cohn Livingston / Picture people
- David McCord / Books fall open
- Robert Louis Stevenson / Pirate story
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts / The branch
- Eleanor Farjeon / Boy's names; girls' names
- Walter de la Mare / Miss T.
- Dorothy Aldis / Hiding
- James S. Tippett / Trucks
- David McCord / Song of the train
- Rachel Field / Taxis
- Walter de la Mare / The barber's
- Richard Armour / Money
- Myra Cohn Livingston / Buildings
- Karl Shapiro / Manhole covers
- Juan Ramón Jiménez / Peep show
- Harry Behn / Hallowe'en
- James Reeves / Fireworks
- Lillian Morrison / The sprinters
- Richard LeGallienne / I meant to do my work today
- Harry Behn / Evening
- Walter de la Mare / Nod
- William Blake / The echoing green
- Walter de la Mare / Tired Tim
- Thomas Hood / Good night
- Vachel Lindsay / The moon's the north wind's cooky
- James Stephens / The white window
- Walter de la Mare / Full moon; silver
- William Blake / Nurse's song
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Sweet and low
- William Blake / Cradle song
- Sir Walter Scott / Lullaby of an infant chief
- Eleanor Farjeon / The night will never stay
- Gerard Manley Hopkins / The starlight night
- Wind and weather : Kate Greenaway / Little wind
- Dorothy Aldis / Windy wash day
- Christina Rossetti / Who has seen the wind?
- Robert Louis Stevenson / The wind
- Harry Behn / The kite
- Robert Louis Stevenson / Rain
- Laura E. Richards / The umbrella brigade
- Carl Sandburg / Fog; lost
- Robert Louis Stevenson / Autumn fires
- Emily Dickinson / The morns are meeker than they were
- John Keats / To autumn
- John Updike / October
- Rachel Field / Something told the wild geese
- David McCord / The frost pane
- Walter de la Mare / The snowflake
- Robert Frost / Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
- John Greenleaf Whittier / Lines from "snowbound"
- Thomas Hardy / Snow in the suburbs
- William Shakespeare / "When icicles hang by the wall"
- William Sharp / An almanac
- Theodore Roethke / The waking
- William Shakespeare / In Arden Forest
- "The lamb white days" : Harry Behn / Waiting
- William Wordsworth / March
- Robert Bridges / First spring morning
- William Watson / Song (April)
- E.E. Cummings / In just-spring
- Traditional / Here we come a'piping
- John Updike / May
- William Blake / Laughing song
- James Reeves / Things to remember
- Robert Bridges / Spring goeth all in white
- Ralph Waldo Emerson / April and May
- Robert Browning / Home thoughts from abroad
- William Wordworth / Daffodils
- William Blake / Spring
- Alfred Edward Housman / Loveliest of trees
- Dylan Thomas / Fern Hill
- "Sown upon the fields" : Hilda Conkling / Dandelion
- Robert Bridges / The idle flowers
- Edward Thomas / Digging
- Edith Sitwell / Two songs
- Maxine W. Kumin / Song of weeds
- Robert Herrick / To daffodils
- Ann Nolan Clark / Yucca
- John Keats / Sweet peas
- Theodore Roethke / In praise of prairie
- The lovely diminutives : James Stephens / Little things
- Yvor Winters / April
- David McCord / Crickets
- Christina Rossetti / The caterpillar
- David McCord / Cocoon
- A.A. Milne / Market square
- Christina Rossetti / The city mouse
- Elizabeth Coatsworth / The mouse
- Edith Sitwell / Madame Mouse trots
- E.V. Rieu / The happy hedgehog
- David McCord / Our Mr. Toad
- Hilda Conkling / Little snail
- James Reeves / The snail
- Langston Hughes / The snail
- Kenneth Grahame / Duck's ditty
- Eleanor Farjeon / A prayer for little things
- Theodore Roethke / The bat
- Conrad Aiken / The grasshopper
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts / Firefly
- William Sharp / The wasp
- Thomas Hardy / An August midnight
- Conrad Aiken / The frog
- John Keats / Minnows
- Harry Behn / Near and far
- E.L. Mayo / The mole
- Elizabeth Coatsworth / Ceremonial hunt
- Richard Eberhart / On a squirrel crossing the road
- Marianne Moore / A jellyfish
- Ralph Hodgson / The bells of heaven
- John Keats / On the grasshopper and cricket
- Theodore Roethke / Praise to the end!
- A delirium of birds : David McCord / Crows
- Humbert Wolfe / The blackbird
- Robert Frost / The last word of a bluebird
- May Swenson / The woods at night
- Elizabeth Coatsworth / In Walpi
- Thomas Hardy / Birds at winter nightfall
- T.S. Eliot / Cape Ann
- Judith Wright / Egrets
- Juan Ramón Jiménez / The canary's flight
- Robert Graves / Allie
- St. John Perse / Birds
- Creatures that comfort and console : Jane Taylor / I like little pussy
- Harold Monro / Milk for the cat
- Vachel Lindsay / The mysterious cat
- William Cowper / The woodman's dog
- G.K. Chesterton / The song of Quoodle
- Juan Ramón Jiménez / Platero
- Robert Frost / The pasture
- E.V. Rieu / Cat's funeral
- James Dickey / The dusk of horses
- Louis Untermeyer / Last words before winter
- Surge of the sea : Robert Louis Stevenson / At the sea-side
- Rudyard Kipling / Seal lullaby
- David McCord / The shell
- John Masefield / sea-fever
- Charles Kingsley / The sands of Dee
- Scotch folk poem / We'll go to sea no more
- Louis Untermeyer / From "swimmers"
- Christmas, Christmas! : Lisette Reese / A Christmas folk song
- Wiliam Shakespeare / "Some say..."
- Nahum Tate / While shepherds watched their flocks
- Martin Luther / Cradle hymn
- Phillips Brooks / O little town of Bethlehem
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts / Christmas morning
- Traditional / I wonder as I wander
- Clement C. Moore / A visit from St. Nicholas
- Dinah Maria Mulak Craik / God rest ye, merry gentlemen
- Traditional (English) / An apple tree rhyme
- Traditional (American) / The Kentuckey wassail song
- Traditional (English) / Merry are the bells
- Traditional (English) / A New Year carol
- Ballads, tales, and echoes out of time : Traditional / The keys of Canterbury
- Geoffrey Chaucer / The Franklins' tale
- Old ballad / Sir Patrick Spens
- Traditional (English) / The riddling knight
- Old ballad / Get up and bar the door
- Old ballad / Robin Hood and Little John
- Alfred Noyes / A song of Sherwood
- Sir Walter Scott / Lochinvar
- Alfred Noyes / The admiral's ghost
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Hiawatha's childhood
- Edgar Allan Poe / Annabel Lee
- Stephen Vincent Benét / The ballad of William Sycamore
- John Gould Fletcher / Lincoln
- Rosemary Carr and Stephen Vincent Benét / Nancy Hanks
- Vachel Lindsay / Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight
- Elizabeth Coatsworth / The Navajo
- Vachel Lindsay / The flower-fed buffaloes
- William Butler Yeats / The fiddler of Dooney
- "Aye my dear and tender" : Thomas Hardy / First or last
- Author unknown / I know where I'm going
- William Butler Yeats / He wishes for the cloths of heaven
- Lillian Morrison / At first sight
- James Stephens / Deirdre
- E.E. Cummings / All in green went with my love riding
- Thomas Hardy / She opened the door
- Langston Hughes / When Sue wears red
- Edward Thomas / Will you come?
- The grace of understanding : David McCord / This is my rock
- William Butler Yeats / The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- Marguerite Wilkinson / A chant out of doors
- Victor Hugo / Wings
- Marianne Moore / O, to be a dragon
- Mary Austin / A song of greatness
- Francis Brett Young / Atlantic charter
- Langston Hughes / Youth
- Marianne Moore / I may, I might, I must
- Countee CulLen / Incident
- Langston Hughes / Heaven : the city called heaven
- James Reeves / The four letters
- Harry Behn / All kinds of time
- James Reeves / Slowly
- A.M. Sullivan / The chronometer
- Walt Whitman / Give me the splendid silent sun
- William Wordsworth / My heart leaps up
- Walt Whitman / Miracles
- E-Yeh-Shure (Louise Abeita) / Beauty
- May Swenson / The word "beautiful"
- Emily DIckinson / I never saw a moor
- William Blake / The lamb
- Robert Graves / In the wilderness
- Gerard Manley Hopkins / Heaven-haven
- Edwin Muir / The way
- May Swenson / Question
- Ralph Hodgson / After
- Countee Cullen / The wakeupworld
- Leonora Speyer / Measure me, sky!
- Theodore Roethke / Once more, the round
- Sara Teasdale / Night
- James Weldon Johnson / The creation
- Theodore Roethke / The far field
- Earth, sky, and sea : Jean Henri Fabre / The cricket
- Henry David Thoreau / Walden : the loon
- Sally Carrighar / One day on Beetle Rock : the weasel
- John Burroughs / The mink
- W.H. Hudson / A hind in Richmond Park : bird migration on the Pampas ; far away and long ago : flamingoes
- J. Bronowski and Millicent E. Selsam / Biography of an atom (selection)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Wind, sand, and stars : the elements
- S. Carl Hirsch / On course : man in deep space
- John H. Glenn, Jr. / We seven : four sunsets in one day
- Rachel L. Carson / The sea around us : the moving tides
- James Dugan / Undersea explorer : the story of Captain Cousteau
- bibliography
- Biography : C. Walter Hodges / Columbus sails : the Ambassador
- Jeanette Eaton / Leader by destiny : George Washington, the boy
- James Daughterty / Daniel Boone : Boonesborough
- Constance Rourke / Audubon : Many trails and a snug cabin-
- John F. Kennedy / Profiles in courage : Daniel Webster
- Genevieve Foster / Abraham Lincolc : his good stepmother
- Carl Sandburg / Abe Lincoln grows up : "peculiarsome" Abe
- Rumer Godden / Hans Christian Anderson (selection)
- Cornelia Meigs / Invincible Louisa : "little women"
- Marjorie Braymer / The walls of windy Troy : Schliemann finds Troy
- Eve Curie / Madame Curie : four years in a shed
- Joseph Gollomb / Albert Schweitzer (selection)
- Bibliography
- Travel and history : Hendrik Van Loon / The story of mankind : the setting of the stage
- Elizabeth Chesley Baity / Americans before Columbus : the Vikings find and lose America
- Mary Seymour Lucas / Vast horizons : the Polos
- Alfred Dugan / Growing up in 13th century England : the family of an earl
- Richard Hakluyt / Hakluyt's voyages : the deliverance
- Genevieve Foster / George Washington's world : the Declaration of Independence
- James Daugherty / Of courage undaunted : Lewis and Clark
- From the diary of Captain Robert Scott / Captain Scott's last expedition : the last March
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh / North to the Orient : Point Barrow
- Katherine B. Shippen / The great heritage : we have tomorrow
- Gerald W. Johnson / America moves forward : united we stand
- Bibliography
- Appendixes : Appendix A : Storytelling
- Bibliography
- Appendix B : Children's literature
- Bibliography
- Appendix C : Illustrators of children's books
- Bibliography
- Appendix D : Children's book awards : The Newbery and Caldecott awards; the Hans Christian Anderson award; the National Book Award
- Appendix E : Graded reading lists
- Appendix F : Biographical sketches
- Appendix G : Pronouncing glossary
- Contents by ages and grade
- Index.