repression, offer a stimulus, and closely
watch the product, untouched by adult skill. (_Unknown_.)

The means by which the higher selective interest is aroused, is
the exercise of selected forms of activity. (_Susan Blow_.)]

[3: _Little Two-Eyes_ and _Snow White_ are tales also suited to the
first grade for dramatization. See _Appendix_.]

[4: A similar tale is told by Miss Holbrook in _The Book of Nature
Myths_. Also by Mary McDowell as "The Three Little Christmas
Trees." A simple version of this tale, "The Three Little
Christmas Trees that Grew on the Hill," is given in _The
Story-Teller's Book_ by Alice O'Grady and Frances Throop.]

[5: Joseph Jacobs, in his Introduction to the Cranford edition, and
Ashton, in _Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century_, furnish most
of the facts mentioned here.]

[6: This list has been compiled largely from "Children's Books and
Their Illustrators," by Gleeson White, in _The International
Studio_. Special Winter Number, 1897-98.]

[7: The following list, compiled by Mr. H.H.B. Meyer, the chief
bibliographer of the Library of Congress, has been furnished
through the courtesy of the United States Bureau of Education. A
few additional books were inserted by the author. The books at
the head of the list give information on the subject.]

[8: _The Woman and Her Kid_, a version of this tale adapted from an
ancient Jewish Sacred Book, is given in _Boston Kindergarten
Stories_, p. 171.]

[9: See Appendix.]

[10: William M. Thackeray, _Miscellanies_, v. Boston: James Osgood
& Co., 1873. "Titmarsh among Pictures and Books"; "On Some
Illustrated Christmas Books," 1846.]

[11: A few romantic tales for the first grade are treated in the
Appendix: _Puss-in-Boots_, _Lord Peter_, _Tom Thumb_, _Little
Thumb_, and _Snow White and Rose Red_.]

[12: See _Appendix_.]

[13: Laura F. Kready, "Picture-Books for Little Children,"
_Kindergarten Review_, Sept., 1914.]

[14: For _Little Two-Eyes_ and _Snow White, see_ note on p. 145; for
_The Little Lamb and the Little Fish, see_ pp. 147-48; and for
_How the Birds came to have Different Nests, see_ p. 151.]

[15: _See_ note, p. 217.]

[16: _See_ note, p. 232]

[17: Reprinted in _Living Age_, Aug. 13, 1844, vol. 2, p. 1.]

[18: _See_ p. 239]

INDEX

Accumulative or clock story, 205-11.

Action, 20-21.

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