CHILDREN The Wake-up Story Eudora Bumstead Page 7 The Boy and His Cap Rebecca B Foresman Page 12 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ,Jane Taylor Page 14 What Lights the Stars? Emeline Ooodrow Page 15 Lucky Hans German Tale Page 16 My Shadow Robert Louis Stevenson Page 27 The Naughty Shadow A Russian Tale Page 30 Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson Page 31 The Lost Doll Charles Kingsley Page 32 FABLES The Ant and the Grasshopper ,Msop Page 34 The Two Shops Russian Page 36 The Frog Who Tried to Be as Big as an Ox TEsop Page 38 Pleasing Everybody ^sop Page 40 The Dog in the Manger Msop Page 43 Little Mouse and the Strangers Msop Page 44 ANIMALS The Cow Robert Louis Stevenson Page 49 Taro and the Turtle Japanese Tale Page 50 The Elephant and the Monkey Tale from India Page 55 The Bear Who Played Soldier Hans C, Andersen Page 58 The New Voices Tale from India Page 61 BIRDS The Swallow Christina G Rossetti Page 64 The Old Woman Who Wanted All the Cakes Norse Tale Page 65 Robin 's Secret Unknown Page 68 Little Bird Blue Unknown Page 70 The Magpie 's Lesson English Tale Page 71 FOLK TALES Animals That Found a Home Norse Page 73 The Bell of Atri Italian Page 80 FOLK TALES— Continued The Three Pigs English Page 93 The House in the Woods German Page 101 The Lad Who Went to The North Wind Norse Page 112 SEASONS AND FESTIVALS The Months Mother Goose Page 120 Who Has Seen the Wind? Christina G Rossetti Page 121 Come, Little Leaves George Cooper Page 122 The Leaf That Was Afraid Henry Ward Beecher Page 124 The Snow Man Rebecca B, Foresman Page 126 The Dolls' Thanksgiving Din- ner Isabel Gordon Curtis Page 128 The Golden Cobwebs Robert H Schauffler Page 133 The Easter Eabbit German Tale Page 139 America Samuel F Smith Page 144 The Flag Henry H Bennett Page 145 The Little Cook Lntie A McCorUe Page 146 The Eainbow Lizzie M Hadley Page 151 FLOWERS How Buttercups Came Old Tale Page 152 Daisies Frank D, Sherman Page 153 The Kind Old Oak Old Tale Page 154 Clovers Helena Leeming Jeliffe Page 156 The Girl Who Was Changed to a Sunflower Greek Legend Page 157 FAIRIES AND FAIRY TALES The Fairy Shoemaker Sarah A, Haste Page 161 The First Umbrella Carolyn S, Bailey Page 172 The Twelve Months Bohemian Tale Page 175 The Merman and the Mermaid Alfred, Lord Tennyson Page 186 The Foolish Goose Leora Robinson Page 187 Jack and the Beanstalk Old English Tale Page 193 The Little Tailor Wilhelm Grimm Page 202 The King and the Goose-Herd Old Persian Tale Page 209 A Song of Joy Laura E Richards Page 215 How the Days Got Their Names From the Old Myths Page 216 WORD LIST Page 219