as
stories has been included among the lists for special days, but none has
been given for Washington's Birthday or Independence Day. There is,
however, a list of patriotic and historical narrative poems.

Further explanations will be found in the short paragraphs preceding
each list, and in the index to titles of stories.

EFFIE L. POWER,
_Director of Work with Children_.

Cleveland Public Library,
February 12, 1921.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Stories for little children
Stories for children three and four years old
Stories for children five and six years old
Suggestions for story hours for little children

Stories for special days; chiefly for little children
Christmas stories
Easter stories
Thanksgiving stories
Arbor Day stories
Hallowe'en stories

Stories for older children
Greek cycle stories
Norse cycle stories
King Arthur tales
Charlemagne and Roland legends
Chivalry tales
Stories from Chaucer
Stories from the Faerie Queene
Irish hero tales
Stories from Shakespeare
Stories from the Old Testament
Stories from the New Testament
Robin Hood stories
Ballad stories

For reading aloud
Narrative poems
Prose selections and stories

Books about story telling

Index to titles

Books referred to in the foregoing lists

STORIES FOR CHILDREN THREE AND FOUR
YEARS OLD.

The arrangement is in the order of degree of difficulty. Where the title
would naturally appear in the library catalogue, the author's name only
is given. Where a title appears in several lists, the source is given
only in one, which is indicated by giving the page number in bold face
type preceding title in the index at the end of this pamphlet.

Many of the stories listed may be found in simplified form in the
primers and readers on the little children's shelves.

Rhymes from Mother Goose.

A was an apple pie.
A was an archer who shot at a frog.
This is the house that Jack built.
Three little kittens lost their mittens.
Old Mother Hubbard.
Sing a song of sixpence.
The Queen of Hearts.
I saw a ship a-sailing.
Tom he was a piper's son.
London Bridge is broken down.
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren.
Who killed Cock Robin?

_Best versions of Mother Goose:_
Lang. Nursery rhyme book.
Norton. Heart of oak books, v. I.
Book of nursery rhymes; Welsh.
Mother Goose's melodies. Wheeler.
See also the Caldecott picture books.

The old woman and her pig