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By Charles Madison Curry
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A comprehensive teachers' handbook gathers annotated selections, bibliographies, and practical guidance for using literature with young learners. It begins with introductory chapters on literature for young people, reading across grade levels, storytelling and dramatization, and course planning. Subsequent sections present curated nursery rhymes and Mother Goose jingles, traditional and modern fairy tales from diverse sources, and fables and symbolic tales, each accompanied by notes and bibliographies. Throughout, the editors offer selection criteria, classroom applications, and suggestions for presentation and dramatization, enabling instructors to choose, adapt, and organize material for curricula and reading activities.

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Title: Children's Literature

Author: Charles Madison Curry

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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










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