gination.
For while the elements are familiar, the combination is
unusual; and this nourishes the child's ability to remove
from the usual situation, which is the essential element in
all originality. By entering into the life of the characters
and identifying himself with them, he develops a large
sympathy and a sense of power, he gains insight into life,
and a care for the interests of the world. Thus imagination
grows "in flexibility, in scope, and in sympathy, till the
life which the individual lives is informed with the life of
nature and of society," and acquires what Professor John
Dewey calls Culture.

_Animals_. Very few of the child's fairy tales contain no
animals. Southey said of a home: "A house is never perfectly
furnished for enjoyment unless there is in it a child rising
three years old and a kitten rising six weeks; kitten is in
the animal world what a rose-bud is in a garden." In the
same way it might be said of fairy tales: No tale is quite
suited to the little child unless in it there is at least
one animal. Such animal tales are _The Bremen Town
Musicians, Henny Penny, Ludwig and Marleen_ and _The
Elephant's Child_. The episode of the hero or heroine and
the friendly animal, as we find it retained in Two-Eyes and
her little Goat, was probably a folk-lore convention--since
dropped--common to the beginning of many of the old tales.
It indicates how largely the friendly animal entered into
the old stories.

_A portrayal of human relations, especially with children_.
In _Cinderella_ the child is held by the unkind treatment
inflicted upon Cinderella by her Stepmother and the two
haughty Sisters. He notes the solicitude of the Mother of
the Seven Kids in guarding them from the Wolf. In the _Three
Bears_ he observes a picture of family life. A little child,
on listening to _The Three Pigs_ for the first time, was
overwhelmed by one thought and cried out, "And didn't the
Mother come home any more?" Naturally the child would be
interested especially in children, for he is like the older
boy, who, when looking at a picture-book, gleefully
exclaimed, "That's me!" He likes to put himself in the place
of others. He can do it most readily if the character is a
small individual like Red Riding Hood who should ob