Download or read book Prose and Verse for Children written by Katharine Pyle and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prose and Verse for Children written by Katharine Pyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE. ANY one who has been out of touch with schools for several years, and who casually picks up a child's reader of to-day, can hardly help being impressed by the difference between the present schoolbooks and those of a generation ago. Far more attention is now paid to awakening the child's interest. Even the reading books for the smaller children are no longer a dull array of words-a necessary vocabulary that must be mastered before the learner can advance to things of genuine interest or pleasure. Imagination is no longer shut out by the click of the schoolroom latch, but is now considered a valuable factor in leading a child on and up to those realities of life which are so much higher and more beautiful than any mere creation of the imagination can be. It is this consideration that has induced the author of this little volume to collect in book form the following tales and verses, some of them imaginative almost to the verge of the fantastic. Not all are of this character, however. They deal as well with the little incidents of child life, or tell of the doings and fates of animals that have come under the author's notice. But even in tales the most imaginative or fantastic there are lessons that may be instilled into a child's mind besides the knowledge of spelling or the meaning of words. The vocabulary used in this collection is somewhat larger than that usually introduced in schoolbooks of the grade for which this volume is intended, but if there is enough interest in the stories and verses to hold the child's attention and make him wish to read on, this will hardly be esteemed a drawback. The greater number of these tales and rhymes have already appeared in print. For the permission to republish them thanks are due to the Century Company, to Messrs. Harper & Brothers, and to the editors of" Vogue," the " Outlook," and the " Independent."
Download or read book Prose and Verse written by Katharine Pyle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prose and Verse: For Children Imagination is no longer shut out by the click of the schoolroom latch, but is now considered a valuable factor in leading a child on and up to those realities of life which are so much higher and more beautiful than any mere creation of the imagination can be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Variety in Prose and Verse for Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings in Prose and Verse written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Days and Deeds written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Days and Deeds written by Burton E. Stevenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Days and Deeds: A Book Verse for Children's Reading and Speaking The attempt has been made to gather together in this volume the really significant poetry relating to American holidays and to great Americans, especially such as is suited for recitation. To this has been added a short anthology of the seasons, and some eight or ten lyrics with which every one ought to be familiar, and which did not fall under any of the other headings. It is inevitable that in a collection of this sort, nearly every reader will miss some personal favorites. The question of length has excluded a number of such sterling poems as "Grandmother's Story of Bunker-Hill Battle" and "How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry," which were put aside regretfully only after it became apparent that their inclusion would stretch the volume beyond the utmost limit allowed for it. Indeed, at the end, it became necessary to sacrifice many well-loved poems; and this, it may be added, the compilers found by far the most trying part of their task. Still it is believed that the collection will be found fairly complete, especially with the use of the cross-references which are given. The genesis of the volume was in the never-ceasing demand at an Ohio library for poetry suited for holiday and special exercises in the schools, and the primary object in undertaking it was to substitute really worthy verse for the rhymes and jingles usually offered children. No pretence is made, of course, that everything included here is good poetry - indeed, in several instances, selections which are not poetry at all absolutely demanded admission because of peculiar appropriateness - but, as a whole, it is hoped that the volume will be found elevating, stimulating, and inspiring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Writings in Prose and Verse Just so stories for little children illus by the author written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charm of Children Some Thoughts in Prose and Verse on Child Life Etc written by L. M. S. and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Variety in Prose and Verse for Little Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Days and Deeds written by Burton E. Stevenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Days and Deeds: Prose for Children's Reading and Speaking It has, of course, been impossible, except in a very few instances, to give these orations, addresses, and essays entire. All that could be included here was the central thought, the most noteworthy sentences, the portion best worth remembering and repeating. A word of caution should, perhaps, be added. While many of the selections relating to great Americans are careful and well-balanced judgments, many others are frankly eulogies. Impartial estimate can scarcely be looked for m a funeral oration, and often, on such occasion, a man is set on a higher ped estal than history will award him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Verse and Prose written by Horace Elisha Scudder and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature Horace Elisha Scudder The attentive reader of this little book will be apt to notice very soon that though its title is Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading, the verse occupies nine tenths, the prose being confined to about two hundred proverbs and familiar sayings-some of them, indeed, in rhyme-scattered in groups throughout the book. The reason for this will be apparent as soon as one considers the end in view in the preparation of this compilation. The Riverside Primer and Reader, as stated in its Introduction, "is designed to serve as the sole text-book in reading required by a pupil. When he has mastered it he is ready to make the acquaintance of the world's literature in the English tongue." The agreeable task of the editor, therefore, was to search English and American literature for those poems which had fallen from the lips of poets with so sweet a cadence and in such simple notes that they would offer but slight difficulties to a child who had mastered the rudiments of reading. It was by no means necessary that such poems should have had an audience of children in mind nor have taken childhood for a subject, though it was natural that a few of the verses should prove to be suggested by some aspect of child-life. The selection must be its own advocate, but it may be worth while to point out that the plan of the book supposes an easy approach to the more serious poems by means of the light ditties of the nursery; that there is no more reason for depriving a child of honest fun in his verse than there is for condemning the child's elders to grave poetry exclusively; and that it is not necessary or even desirable for a poem to come at once within the reader's comprehension. To take an extreme case, Tennyson's lines "Break, Break, Break!" would no doubt be ruled out of such a book as this by many in sympathy with children; yet the unexplainable power of the poem is not beyond the apprehension of sensitive natures at an early age. The contents have been gleaned from a number of sources, and the editor is glad to mingle with the names of the secure dwellers on Parnassus those of some living Americans and Englishmen. He does not pretend that he has made an exhaustive collection, but he hopes the book may be regarded as the nucleus for an anthology which cannot, in the nature of things, be very large. The prose, as already intimated, is confined to groups of proverbs and familiar sayings. In one aspect these single lines of prose present difficulties to the young reader: they are condensed forms of expression, even though the words may be simple; but they offer the convenient small change of intellectual currency which it is well for one to be supplied with at an early stage of one's journey, and they afford to the teacher a capital opportunity for conversational and other exercises. To treat a poem as a mere quarry out of which a particularly smooth stone can be chipped is to misinterpret poetry. A poem is a statue, not a quarry.
Download or read book Our Little Ones in Heaven written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading written by Horace Elisha Scudder and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The order of this book is in a general way from the easy to the more difficult with an attempt also at an agreeable variety. The editor has purposely avoided breaking up the book into lesson portions or giving it the air of a text-book. There is no reason why children should not read books as older people read them for pleasure and dissociate them from a too persistent notion of tasks. It is entirely possible that some teachers may find it out of the question to lead their classes straight through this book but there is nothing to forbid them from judicious skipping or what is perhaps more to the point from helping pupils over a difficult word or phrase when it is encountered; the interest which the child takes will carry him over most hard places. It would be a capital use of the book also if teachers were to draw upon it for poems which their pupils should in the suggestive phrase learn by heart. To this purpose the contents are singularly well adapted; for from the single line proverb to a poem by Wordsworth there is such a wide range of choice that the teacher need not resort to the questionable device of giving children fragments and bits of verse and prose to commit to memory. One of the greatest services we can do the young mind is to accustom it to the perception of wholes and whether this whole be a lyric or a narrative poem like Evangeline it is almost equally important that the young reader should learn to hold it as such in his mind. To treat a poem as a mere quarry out of which a particularly smooth stone can be chipped is to misinterpret poetry. A poem is a statue not a quarry.
Download or read book Prose and Verse for Children Selected from the Most Popular and Approved British Publications of the Kind written by Harriett Montucci and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Childhood written by Helen Sudell and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly-illustrated and embellished collection, which brings together beautiful works of art that have been specially selected to accompany delightful pieces of verse and prose.
Download or read book The Writings in Prose and Verse Just so stories for little children illus by the author written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
