Literature for Children

Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old. Some like it hot, Some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

"A precious treasure had I long possessed, A little yellow canvas-covered book, A slender abstract of the Arabian Tales; And for companions in a new abode, When first I learnt,...

"The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one."-...

"In the olde times they were the only revivers of drowsy age at midnight: old and young have with his tales chim'd mattens till the cocks crow in the morning: Batchelors and Mai...

THE publishing of books is like the brook in the poem, it goes on forever. The number and variety found on sale at the end of each year is truly bewildering. The flesh is becomi...

THE teacher who is a workman skilled in his craft looks upon a few educational practices as being of intrinsic merit--through and through in an age of veneer and cheap imitation...

THERE is not the slightest necessity for schoolmen's staring at one another when it is proposed to let boys once more look through magic casements at the classic myths of Greece...

THE man who believes that education and books are designed for the imparting only of useful information had better read no farther than this sentence; for if he does, he will be...

"He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only...

I. FAIRY TALES, HOUSEHOLD TALES, AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES 159 II. CLASSIC MYTHS IN LITERATURE 176 III. BOOKS TO BE OWNED, TO BE READ AND REREAD 188 IV. ON THE PURCHASE AND CARE...