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Title: Children's Literature
A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

Author: Charles Madison Curry
Erle Elsworth Clippinger

Release Date: May 20, 2008 [EBook #25545]

Language: English

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When all the novelists and spinners of
elaborate fictions have been read and judged,
we shall find that the peasant and the nurse
are still unsurpassed as mere narrators. They
are the guardians of that treasury of legend
which comes to us from the very childhood of
nations; they and their tales are the abstract
and brief chronicles, not of an age merely, but
of the whole race of man. It is theirs to keep
alive the great art of telling stories as a
thing wholly apart from and independent of the
art of writing stories, and to pass on their
art to children and to children's children.
They abide in a realm of their own, in blessed
isolation from that world of professional
authors and their milk-and-water books "for
children."
--C. B. TINKER, "In Praise of Nursery
Lore," _The Unpopular Review_,
October-December, 1916.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

A TEXTBOOK OF SOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND TEACHER-TRAINING CLASSES

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

_BY_
CHARLES MADISON CURRY
_AND_
ERLE ELSWORTH CLIPPINGER
_Professors of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School_

[Illustration]

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1920, by_
RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY

_Copyright, 1921, by_
RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
All rights reserved
Edition of 1926

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