Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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 [Illustration] Made in U. S. A. THE CONTENTS SECTION I PREFACE AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION _General Bibliography_ 2 _The Preface_ 5 _General Introduction_ 7 1. Literature for Children 7 2. Literature in the Grades 8 3. Story-Telling and Dramatization 10 4. Courses of Study 13 SECTION II MOTHER GOOSE JINGLES AND NURSERY RHYMES _Bibliography_ 18 _Introductory_ 19 MOTHER GOOSE (Shorter rhymes): 1. A cat came fiddling out of a barn 23 2. A diller, a dollar 23 3. As I was going to St. Ives 23 4. As I was going up Pippen Hill 23 5. As I went to Bonner 23