only in naming enough books to supply
their demands, but in grouping these books according to the order of
difficulty. Most public libraries can furnish such lists based upon
their experience with children. In fact no modern public library can
carry on its work successfully without an especially prepared librarian
in charge of the books for children. The arrangement of any list by
grades must at best be only approximate, but if done in the light of a
wide experience may be of the greatest practical help to the young
teacher or to the parent. The following list is one issued by the
Chicago Public Library, and is used here through the great kindness of
Miss Adah F. Whitcomb, supervisor of the children's room and director of
the training class. Any well-selected collection for children will
contain a large proportion of these titles, and the list is extended
enough and varied enough to furnish attractive reading material for any
young person. At need it may be supplemented by the more elaborate lists
found in some of the guides mentioned in the General Bibliography (p.
2).

FIRST GRADE

Banta, N. Moore, and Benson, Alpha B., _Brownie Primer_.

Blaisdell, Mary Frances, _Mother Goose Children_.

Brooke, Leonard Leslie, _Johnny Crow's Garden_.

----, _Johnny Crow's Party_.

Buffum, Katharine G., _Mother Goose in Silhouettes_.

Craik, Georgiana Marion, _So-fat and Mew-mew_.

Crane, Walter, _Beauty and the Beast Picture Book_.

----, _Bluebeard's Picture Book_.

----, _Cinderella's Picture Book_.

----, _Goody Two Shoes Picture Book_.

----, _Mother Hubbard, Her Picture Book_.

----, _Red Riding Hood's Picture Book_.

----, _Song of Sixpence_.

----, _This Little Pig, His Picture Book_.

----, _Buckle My Shoe_.

Fox, Florence Cornelia, _The Indian Primer_.

Gaynor, Mrs. Jessie Love, and Riley, Alice C. D., _Songs of the
Child-World_.

Greenaway, Kate, _Under the Window_.

Haaren, John Henry, _Rhymes and Fables_.

Howard, Frederick Ward, _Banbury Cross Stories_.

Lansing, Marion Florence, _The Child's World Garden_.

Le Fevre, Felicite, _The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red
Hen_.

Lucas, Edward Verrall, _Four and Twenty Toilers_.

Mother Goose, _The Real Mother Goose_ (illus. by Blanche Fisher
Wright).

Noyes, Marion, _The Sunshine Primer_.

Saxby, Lewis, _Life of a Wooden Doll_.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, _Wild Animal P