Other versions:
    Lovejoy.  Nature in verse. 
    Waterman.  Graded memory selections.

[Footnote 6:  For source, see page number preceding title in index.]

  Why the evergreens never lose their leaves.

  Best version:
    Holbrook.  Book of nature myths.

  The wise men of Gotham.

  Best version:
    Jacobs.  More English fairy tales.

  The wolf and the seven little goats.

  Best version:
    Grimm.  Household stories tr. by Crane.

  Other versions:
    Blaisdell.  Child life in tale and fable. (Adapted.) (Wolf and seven
        little goslings.)
    Grimm.  Fairy tales. (Wolf and the seven young kids.)
    Mulock.  Fairy book. (Wolf and the seven young goslings.)

SUGGESTIONS FOR STORY HOURS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.

The following programs for story hours for the little children are suggestive only.  It is desirable that the best folk tales be repeated as often as the children desire, and that poems should be read or recited in connection with the stories where there is a response.  The little children should never be held longer than half an hour, and twenty minutes is better.  The stories to be told together are numbered 1 and 2.  This grouping may be changed and additions may be made from books which have been duplicated freely in the juvenile book collections, but the selection should be kept to the standard of this list.  Also, it is not required that the groups of stories should be used in the order listed.

See also lists for special days.

PROGRAMS FOR STORY HOURS.

  1.  Water of life. (Story of the three sons.)

  Best version:
    Grimm.  Fairy tales; tr. by Lucas.

  Other versions:
    Grimm.  Fairy tales; il. by Folkard. 
    Grimm.  German household tales; tr. by Edwardes. 
    Jerrold.  Reign of King Oberon. 
    Shaw.  Fairy tales for the second school year. 
    Valentine.  Aunt Louisa’s book of fairy tales. 
    Wiggin and Smith.  Magic casements.

  Alternative

  Water of life. (Story of the faithful servant.)

  Best version:
    Pyle.  Wonder clock.

  Other versions:
    Lang.  Golden mermaid. 
    Lang.  Pink fairy book.

  2.  Princess whom nobody could silence.

  Best version:
    Thomsen.  East o’ the sun. (Princess who could not be silenced.)

  Other versions:
    Asbjoernsen.  Fairy tales from the far north. 
    Wiggin and Smith.  Tales of laughter.

  Compare with Peter Fiddle-de-dee in
      Bay.  Danish fairy and folk tales.

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