^ -r- r (4Su.-r tu. life- j^SSlTY QIU-U ' : University ol tie State ol Hew York Bulletin Entered as second-class matter August 2, 1913, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under the act of August 24, 1912 Published fortnightly No. 716 ALBANY, N. Y. August 15, 1920 School Libraries Division GRADE ROOM LIBRARIES A considerable number of superintendents and principals have asked that the Department prepare a short list of the best books for each grade, books that should be purchased first. This we are very glad to do because it is more important to have good grade room libraries than good libraries for the high schools, if both can not be had, for the following reasons: 1 All pupils are in the grades at some time. 2 Only a small portion of the whole ever enter the high school. 3 The pupils have more time for reading while in the grades than they will have when in the high school. 4 Reading habits like other habits are more readily acquired early in life. 5 A child who does not form the reading habit while in the grades is not likely ever to do so. It should be borne in mind that books can not wisely be assigned to any one grade absolutely. Many books can be read to advantage in any one of several grades, and any book mentioned for a given grade may well be in a higher or lower grade in some schools than in others, and some pupils will read to advantage books at an earlier age than will others ; therefore, a principal will be justified in putting some books in a higher or lower grade than that to which they are assigned in this list. Because of the difference in pupils in the same grade, some books are listed that are rather difficult for the grade, others rather easy for most of the pupils. Prices are not given, because they are changing so often. Publishers are given in all cases. Where several firms publish the same book or books, that publisher is named that has the book at a lower price, or better bound, or better printed, or better illustrated. With a few excep- tions the books listed may be had at a moderate price. It will be well to get the edition named, as some publishers issue several editions of the same book, not all equally desirable. Le3or-D 20-3000 (7-4589) 9 To save cost no annotations are given. In most cases these may be found in Bulletin 692, a copy of which has been sent to ever} 7 school district in the State. Additional copies will be sent on request. An effort has been made in the selection of books to grade them so as to tend to lead to a gradual mental growth, and to cover a fairly wide range of literature. It is not to be expected that each child will read all the books listed for his grade. Grade 1 As only a few of the pupils in this grade will do much reading, the books selected are mainly for the teacher’s use, books that she may read to the children, and those that she will use for material for story telling. Adelborg Clean Peter Longmans Bailey & Lewis For the Children’s Hour Bradley Bryant How to Tell Stories to Chil- dren Houghton Craik Bow Wow and Mew Mew Merrill Mother Goose Reader Silver Perkins The Dutch Twins Primer Houghton Perrault Tales of Mother Goose, Welsh, tr. Heath Potter Tale of Peter Rabbit Wame Wiggin & Smith Tales of Laughter Doubleday Several primers made up of stories rather than of scrappy sentences. Grade 2 In this grade children should become familiar with such “ chil- dren’s classics ” as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and other tales as old as the language, stories that should be every English-speaking child’s birthright. Baldwin Howard, comp. Lang Lucia O’Shea, ed. Perkins Fairy Reader Fairy Stories and Fables Banbury Cross Stories Dick Whittington and Other Stories Jack the Giant Killer Red Riding Hood and Other Stories Peter and Polly in Spring Six Nursery Classics The Eskimo Twins Amer. Book^Co. Amer. BookJSo. Merrill Merrill Longmans Longmans Amer. Book^Co. Heath Houghton 3 c ^2 G ■ .-**>. 1 1 Fables and Folk Stories Houghton The Children’s Hour Little Old Fashioned Fairy Tales Rand Pinafore Palace Grosset Grade 3 In the preceding grades have been presented such “ children’s classics ” as Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Jack and the Bean- stalk, Mother Goose, Puss in Boots, Red Riding Hood, Dick Whit- tington, Jack the Giant Killer and some fairy tales. In this grade will be given more fairy stories, and a variety of reading that has long been recognized as being the best for children. Andersen Best Fairy Tales. Henderson, ed. Rand Baldwin Fifty Famous Stories Retold Amer. Book Co. Baldwin, ed. Gulliver’s Travels Retold Amer. Book Co. Bannerman Story of Little Black Sambo Stokes Bass Nature Stories for Young Readers Heath Chaplin A Treasury of Old Fairy Tales Crowell Cox The Brownie Primer Century Eggleston Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans Amer. Book Co. Fox Indian Primer Amer. Book Co. Grimm Brothers Household Tales Houghton Grover Kittens and Cats Houghton Jones & Weimer Chats in the Zoo Rand Lansing Rhymes and Stories Ginn Mulock Adventures of a Brownie Rand O’Shea Old World Wonder Stories Heath Seegmiller Little Rhymes for Little Readers Rand Shaw Big People and Little People of Other Lands Amer. Book Co. Wiggin & Smith The Posy Ring Grosset Wiltse Hero Folks of Ancient Britain Ginn Scudder Tileston Washbume Wiggin & Smith Grade 4 All children in the grades should become well acquainted with such fairy stories, folk tales, allegories, legends, myths and epic poems as are necessary to the understanding of general literature on account of references to the characters and ideas represented in these writings that have become a part of the world literature. These should include among others, Pilgrim’s Progress, Robin Hood, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Greek, Roman and Norse myths. Baldwin Browne Browning Carroll Clement DeFoe Hale Hawthorne Jackson Judd Kingsley Kipling Lansing Lucia Mabie, ed. Richards Ruskin Skinner Old Greek Stories Thirty More Famous Stories Retold Granny’s Wonderful Chair The Pied Piper Alice’s Adventures in Won- derland The Night before Christmas Robinson Crusoe Arabian Nights Wonder Book (Riverside Literature series) Letters from a Cat Classic Myths Greek Heroes The Jungle Book Tales of Old England Stories of American Dis- coverers for Little Amer- icans Fairy Tales that Every Child Should Know The Pig Brother King of the Golden River Tales and plays of Robin Hood Amer. Book Co. Amer. Book Co. Heath Rand Ginn Dutton Grosset Ginn Houghton Little Rand Ginn Century Ginn Amer. Book Co. Grosset Little Heath Amer. Book Co. Instead of adding to the number of different books for this grade it will probably be better for a time to get duplicate copies of those that are most popular, as when a child has read a book that he likes he talks to his mates about it and they want it, and want it at once. Grade 5 Allen Joe the Circus Boy Page Baldwin Abraham Lincoln Amer. Book Co. American Book of Golden Deeds Amer. Book Co. 5 Baldwin John Bunyan’s Dream Story Amer. Book Co. Stories of the King Amer. Book’Co. Blaisdell & Ball Heroic Deeds of American Sailors Little Brown In the Days of Giants (Riverside Literature ser.) Houghton Burt & Cable Eugene Field Book (School Reading) Scribner Carpenter Around the World With Children Amer. Book Co. Geographical Reader of North America Amer. Book Co. Chamberlain How We Are Fed Macmillan Daulton Wings and Stings Rand Dickens Christmas Carol Rand Eggleston First Book in American History Amer. Book Co. George, ed. Hiawatha Reader Lakeside Book Co. Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales (River- side Literature series) Houghton Horton The Frozen North Heath Jacobs, ed. Aesop’s Fables Macmillan Kipling Just So Stories Doubleday Lansing Life in the Greenwood Ginn Luther Trading and Exploring Amer. Book Co. Mace Lincoln, the Man of the People Rand Washington, a Virginia Cavalier Rand Matthews The Seven Champions of Christendom Ginn Miller First Book of Birds (School ed.) Houghton Morley Little Wanderers Ginn Oswell, ed. Old Time Tales Macmillan Otis Toby Tyler Harper Ouida The Dog of Flanders Lippincott Pumphrey Pilgrim Stories Rand Saunders Beautiful Joe Barnes Scudder, ed. Book of Legends (Riverside Literature series) Houghton Seawell Black Beauty Crowell 6 Seton Krag and Johnny Bear (School readings) Scribner Sherman Little Folk’s Lyrics (School ed.) Houghton Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Grosset Warren Robin Hood and His Merry Men Rand Weed Story of Insect Life. First series Ginn Wiggin Birds’ Christmas Carol Houghton Woods Child’s Day Houghton Wyss Swiss Family Robinson Grosset Grade 6 It is in the fifth and sixth grades that there is more time for read- ing than there is later, and more taste for it than in the earlier grades ; therefore it is in these grades that the most and best work can be done in creating a love for good books. Allen South America Ginn Alshouse Heroes of the Nations Macmillan Bowman South America Rand Bradish Old Norse Stories Amer. Book Co. Bullen Cruise of the Cachelot Grosset Burroughs Bird Stories (School ed.) Houghton Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers (School ed.) Houghton Burt, ed. Poems Every Child Should Know Grosset Burt & Chapin, eds. Kipling Stories Doubleday Carpenter Africa Amer. Book Co. Europe Amer. Book Co. How the World Is Clothed Amer. Book Co. How the World Is Fed Amer. Book Co. Church The Iliad for Boys and Girls Macmillan The Odyssey for Boys and Girls Macmillan Crommelin Famous Legends Adapted to Children Century Dickson Pioneers and Patriots in Early American History Macmillan 7 Hathaway Napoleon, the Little Corsi- can Rand Hughes Tom Brown’s School Days Harper Jewett Good Health Ginn Kupfer Stories of Long Ago Heath Long Ways of Wood Folk Ginn Marden Stories From Life Amer. Book Co. Martineau The Peasant and the Prince Ginn Ouida The Numberg Stove Lippincott Page Santa Claus’ Partner Scribner Piercy Great Inventions and Dis- coveries Merrill Price Wandering Heroes Silver Pyle Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (School ed.) Scribner Riley Child Rhymes Grosset Stevenson A Child’s Garden of Verses (New ed.) Scribner Tappan Stories From the Odyssey Houghton Underwood Heroes of Conquest and Empire Macmillan Whitcomb Heroes of History Merrill Wiggin Polly Oliver’s Problem (Riverside Literature series) Houghton Grade 7 Alcott Little Women Little Altsheler The Riflemen of the Ohio Appleton The Shadow of the North Appleton Arnold Stories of Ancient Peoples Amer. Book Co. Austin Betty Alden Houghton Barbour The Crimson Sweater Century Bemis & others The Patriotic Reader Houghton Bishop Panama Past and Present Century Brewer Rural Hygiene Lippincott Bruce Daniel Boone and the Wil- derness Road Macmillan Bryant I Am an American Houghton Churchill The Crossing Grosset Clemens Adventures of Tom Sawyer Harper 8 Conn Bacteria, Yeasts and Molds in the Home Ginn Cooper The Spy (Riverside ed.) Houghton Eggleston The Hoosier Schoolmaster Grosset Franklin Autobiography. Ed. by Aiton Rand Goldsmith The Deserted Village Ginn Gordy American Leaders and Heroes Scribner Goss Life of Grant for Boys and Girls Crowell Grey The Young Pitcher Harper Griswold Deering of Deal Macmillan Gulick Emergencies Ginn Hagedom You Are the Hope of the World Macmillan Henty Under Drake’s Flag Scribner Irving Rip Van Winkle (Laurel series) Crowell Kipling Captains Courageous Century Lansing Barbarian and Noble Ginn Page, Esquire and Knight Ginn Malory King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Macmillan Mason Tom Strong, Washington’s Scout Grosset Mathewson Pitching in a Pinch Grosset Parkman Heroes of Today Century Proctor The Giant Sun and His Family Silver Redway All Around Asia Scribner Reid Afloat in the Forest Dutton Scott The Talisman Ginn Starr Strange Peoples Heath Stevenson A Soldier of Virginia Houghton Sutcliffe Robert Fulton Macmillan Tappan Old World Hero Stories When Knights Were Bold Houghton Houghton Tomlinson The Fort in the Forest Grosset Tooker John Paul Jones Macmillan True Morgan’s Men Little 9 Wade Pilgrims of Today Little Webster Daddy-Long-Legs Century Wiggin Mother Cary’s Chickens Grosset Williams Some Successful Americans Stories from Early New Ginn York History Scribner Grade 8 History and biography which were made prominent in the pre- ceding grade are continued in this, but general literature is also given considerable attention. Altsheler The Herald of the West Appleton Ashmun Isabel Carleton’s Year Macmillan Bolton Girls Who Became Famous Crowell Burgess Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp Penn Burnett The Secret Garden Stokes Chambers Cardigan Harper Churchill The Crisis Grosset Conn Story of Germ Life Appleton Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Heath Deming & Bemis Stories of Patriotism Houghton Earle Home Life in Colonial Days Grosset Eliot Erckman & Chat- Silas Mamer Ginn rain The Conscript Grosset Frederic In the Valley Scribner Griffis The Story of New Nether- land Houghton Guerber Legends of the Middle Ages Amer. Book Co. Hale A Man Without a Country Little Hagedom Boy’s Life of Theodore Roosevelt Harper Hall Boys of Scrooby Houghton Halsey The Old New York Frontier Scribner Holland Historic Inventions Jacobs Irving Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Laurel series) Crowell Tales from the Alhambra Ginn Kingsley Westward Ho! Macmillan Longfellow Evangeline Merrill 10 Lorimer Letters of a Self-made Mer- chant to His Son Grosset Lowell Vision of Sir Launfal Houghton Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome Merrill Marden The Exceptional Employee Crowell Maynard Elliott Gray, Jr Grosset Mitchell Hugh Wynne Century The Youth of Washington Century Mulock John Halifax, Gentleman Crowell Nicolay Boy’s Life of Abraham Lincoln Century Parkman Heroines of Service Century — Rivals for America (Has- brouck ed.) Little Poe The Gold Bug (Gildmaster ed.) Rand Proctor Stories of Starland Silver Reynolds How Man Conquered Nature Macmillan Scott Ivanhoe Merrill Sharp The Ways of the Woods Houghton Tappan American Hero Stories (School ed.) Houghton In the Days of William the Conqueror Lathrop Van Dyke The Mansion Harper Wade The Wonder Workers Little Whittier Snow Bound Houghton Wiggin & Smith Golden Numbers Grosset Williams How It Is Made Nelson Wister The Virginian Macmillan