The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-14
BARNES PICKS
BEST READING
FOR CHILDREN
Complies List of Books at
Request of Local
Woman's Club

Books usually given children as
birthday and Christmas presenta
are often so inferior in literary quail
itfes, IN illustrations. in every as
pect OF good book-making and al
the same time so expensive that It
seemed desirable to issue this list
a4va guide in buying chtldren's
books
Tbe qualities which make the
books herein listed superior arc:
First, a high degree OF literary mer'
It; second. interest for children
third, faithless to the original
texts; fourth. merit OF hoOkmak.
fng In binding. paper. and illustra.
lions. The hooks are listed first
according to the age OF the children
and second under the different lit
eIary types.
syThe price is not given. as this has
changed SO frequently OF late, but
II Is believed that in general these
books cost no more than the
Cheap" books palmed of on tn
public In enormous quantities every
year:
A few collections and scts o;
books for all ages:
Barnes: Types OF Children's Lii!
erature, one volume; World Book
company.
Scudder: The ChiIdren's Book;
III. by Dore. Crutkshauk. and oh
ers: one volume; Houghton.
Eliot: The Junior Classics; Col.
lier: eight volumes.
Tappan: The ChiIdr2n's Hour;
Houghton; ton volumes.
Curry and Clippinger: Children's
Literature; n volume: RaEd Nc
Sally.
Glass One: For Children from Four
to Eight.
Mother Goose.
gMother Goose, or the old Nursery
RHYMES; Ill. by Grenaway: Warne.
Mother Goose; Ill. by Rackham !.
Century.
Mother Goose NurserF tnymei !;
i'll. by :Tenniel and Others. Duttnn.
Nursery Tales.
aCruikshank Fairy Book. i'll. b.
Oruikshank: Putnam.
English Fairy Tales: III. by Bat
ton; Putnam.
sChild's Book Of Stories i'll by
Smith; Dutfield.
Blue Fairy Book; III. b. F0rd and
Hard: Iongmans.
:iFavorite Fairy Tales; i'll. By
Newell: Harpers.
s.Honsehold Stories; i'll. by t'ranc;
Cacmillan:
Grimm's Fairy Tales, ILL.,. ny
Rackham: Lippincott.
Fairy Tales from Hans .AGdCr.
son; i'll. by Browne: StoEcs.
Fables.
Aesop's Fables; i'll. by Rac;han:
Doubleday.
The Talking Beasts: ~, by Mel.
son; Doubleday.
Poetry.
rTreasury Of Verse for L;utle Chill.
den; III. by Pogany; Crowcll.
Blake; Songs OF Tnnocaacn. i'll.
BY Morris: Lane.
Cox; The Brownies: :h2ir Book
Century,
Ide la Mare; Peacock P,e; II. by
Robinson; Holt.
Field; Poems Of Childhood: Ill.
BY Parrish: Scribner.
Peabody: Book OF tha nitti"
Past; Houghton.
4RossettI: Sing Song; Ill H.
Hughes; Macmillan.
sherman; Little Fo" Lyrics:
Houghton.
Stevenson: Child's Garden OF
Verses; i'll. by Smith; Sc .bnc:.
Class Two: For Children from Eight
to Twelve.
EaIrie Stories and Wonder Tales
Arabian Nights; Ill. by PaEet.
Dhtton.
Arabian Nights; III. By Parrish;
Seribner.
collodi; > Plnocchlo: CHM.
Carroll; Alice In Wonderland: ~.
by Tepniel; Macmillan.
Carroll; Alice in WONDERLAND
Ill. by Newell; Harper.
&Garroll; Alice in Wonderland
III. by Tenniel and Kirk; Stokes.
Carroll; Through the Looking
Glass; Ill. by Tenniel: Macmillan.
.lngelow; Mopsa, the Fairy; Lip
ptncott.
Lagerlof; Wonderful Adventures
otSNils: Ill. by Frye: Doubleday.
Lang; Prince PriGio: Crowell.
Maeterlinck; Blue Bird for CHI
dfan; Silver Burdett.
macdonald: Princess and the
Goblin; Lippincott.
Restand; Chanticleer; Stokes.
Stockton; Fanciful Tales: Scrih'
Thackery; The Rose and tho
Ring (Ariel Classicsl; Putnam.
Kingsley; Water Babies; ILL., ny
Dixon: Duttou.
Swift; Gulliver's Travels; III. by
RAckman; Dutton.
Swift; Gulliver's Travels; III. by
Browne; Scribner.
Bunyan; Pilgrims Progress; IL.
by Paget; Dutton.
Bunyan; Pilgrims Progress; III.
bysRhead; Century.
Myths and Legends.
Brown; In the Days of Giants; Ill.
by Smith; Houghton.
Hawthorne: Wonder Book; i'll.
byGrane; Houghton.
Hawthorne; Wonder Book ana
TangleWood Tales: Ill. by Parrish.
Nngsley; Heroes; i'll. by Robin
son; Button.
Lamb; Adventures OF Ulysses:
L6ngmanB.
Peabody; Old Greek Folk Stor.
les; Honghton.
Animal Stories.
Kipiings Jungle Book; Century.
H!pnnE. Just So Stories; Cen.
Ne