Fingerposts to Children's Reading - 1907 Author:Walter Taylor Field Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III A LIST OF BOOKS FOR HOME READING Age, One To Two Yeabs A Good Picture Book: Among the best are the animal books issued by Ernest Nister, The B... more »ook of the Zoo, for wild animals; The Book of the Farm, Our Moo Cow Book, and Our Dog Friends for domestic animals. Red Riding Hood, in the same series, is also good. Dean's Rag Books, printed on cloth, washable and well-nigh indestructible, are excellent. But, after all, the best picture book for a child is one made by the parents. A yard of curtain-shade material, folded into leaves and stitched at the back, insures a durable foundation upon which may be pasted bright, simple, and attractive pictures — not gaudy but artistic — such as one may collect with a little care. mothek Goose: This is the universal children's classic, and has no substitute. The best illustrated edition is that issued by Nister. A good cheap edition is edited by Charles Welsh in Heath's "Home and School Classics." Age, Two To Three Yeabs classic Nurseky Tales: Including Cinderella, The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, Hop o' my Thumb, etc. The Nister edition, entitled Mother Goose Nursery Tales, is the most attractive. Scud- der's "Fables and Folk Stories" is cheaper and the selection of tales is even better. GRniM : Fairy Tales. Care should be taken in selecting an edition of Grimm, as many of the tales in complete editions are coarse and, except to the student of folklore, quite worthless. The best expensive edition is Nister's. A good cheap edition in two volumes, carefully edited, is that by Sara E. Wiltse in Ginn's " Classics for Children." Baum, L. Frank: Father Goose. The humor appeals to adults and older children, but the jingles and bright pictures are'appreciated by the little ones. Perkins, Lucr Fttch: The Goose Gi...« less