The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English

Preface Acknowledgments ALPHABETS Introduction JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS (1592-1670) From Orbis Pictus The Childes Guide (1667) In Adams Fall A Little Book for Children (ca. 1705) A Was an Archer The Picture Alphabet (ca. 1830) A Was an Archer The Instructive Alphabet (1814) At Early Dawn The Child's New Play-Thing (1742) A Was an Apple-Pie KATE GREENAWAY (1846-1901) From A Apple Pie EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888) The Absolutely Abstemious Ass DR. SEUSS [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (1904-1991) From Dr. Seuss's ABC ALICE PROVENSEN (b. 1918) and MARTIN PROVENSEN (1916-1987) A Peacable Kingdom The Shaker Abecedarius CHAPBOOKS Introduction Tom Thumb (ca. 1790-1810) Jack the Giant Killer (ca. 1845-50) The History of Goody Two-Shoes (ca. 1800) Children in the Wood (ca. 1800) The History of Sir Richard Whittington and His Cat (ca. 1840) The Art of Making Money Plenty (1817) The New-York Cries (1826) PRIMERS AND READERS Introduction The New-England Primer (ca. 1690) From A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744) ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825) From Lessons for Children New Canadian Readers (1881-1901) A First Reader >> Preface >> Chicken Little Fun with Dick and Jane (1940) Jane Helps ARNOLD LOBEL (1933-1987) Frog and Toad Are Friends >> The Letter Frog and Toad Together >> A List Texts and Contexts: WRITING Writing sheet (1809) The Copybook (nineteenth century) Happy Hippos (twenty-first century) JOHN NEWBERY (1713-1767) Letters on the Most Common, as Well as Most Important Occasions in Life The Preface Instruction for Epistolary Writing Queen Ann Boleyn's Last Letter to King Henry VIII LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) From Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing FAIRY TALES Introduction CHARLES PERRAULT (1628-1703) The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots SARAH FIELDING (1710-1768) The Governess; or, Little Female Academy >> The Story of the Cruel Giant Barbico, the Good Giant Benefico, and the Little Pretty Dwarf Mignon JEANNE-MARIE LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT (1711-1780) Beauty and the Beast JACOB GRIMM (1785-1863) and WILHELM GRIMM (1786-1859) Hansel and Gretel HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (1805-1875) The Nightingale GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905) The Light Princess FRANK STOCKTON (1834-1902) The Griffin and the Minor Canon OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) The Happy Prince KENNETH GRAHAME (1859-1932) The Reluctant Dragon JOHN B. GRUELLE (1880-1938) The Discontented King WANDA GÁG (1893-1946) The Sorcerer's Apprentice LLOYD ALEXANDER (b. 1924) The Truthful Harp CLASSICAL MYTHS Introduction WILLIAM GODWIN (1756-1836) The Pantheon >> The Minotaur NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) Tanglewood Tales >> From The Minotaur CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875) The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children >> How Theseus Slew the Minotaur LEON GARFIELD (1921-1996) and EDWARD BLISHEN (1920-1996) The God beneath the Sea >> The Seeds of Power PADRAIC COLUM (1881-1972) From The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy LEGENDS Introduction ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) The Pied Piper of Hamelin History of Robin Hood (ca. 1860) HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood >> Robin Hood and Little John ROGER LANCELYN GREEN (1918-1987) King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table >> Sir Gawain and the Green Knight JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915) From The Double Life of Pocahontas JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939) John Henry MARY POPE OSBORNE (b. 1949) Davy Crockett RELIGION: JUDEO-CHRISTIAN STORIES Introduction JAMES JANEAWAY (ca. 1636-1674) A Token for Children >> A Preface: Containing Directions to Children JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688) The Pilgrim's Progress (chapbook) ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) Divine Songs for Children >> Against Quarreling and Fighting >> Against Idleness and Mischief >> An Evening Song >> The Sluggard >> Innocent Play >> A Cradle Hymn HESBA STRETTON (1832-1911) Jessica's First Prayer >> Chapter III. An Old Friend in a New Dress >> Chapter IV. Peeps into Fairy-Land >> Chapter V. A New World Opens >> Chapter VI. The First Prayer ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904-1991) Hanukkah in the Poorhouse TIM RICE (b. 1944) From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat FANTASY Introduction CATHERINE SINCLAIR (1800-1864) Holiday House >> Chapter IX. Uncle David's Nonsensical Story about Giants and Fairies LUCY LANE CLIFFORD (1864-1929) The New Mother L. FRANK BAUM (1856-1919) The Capture of Father Time E. NESBIT (1858-1924) The Phoenix and the Carpet RUTH PARK (b. 1923) Playing Beatie Bow LLOYD ALEXANDER (b. 1924) The Book of Three JON SCIESZKA (b. 1954) Summer Reading Is Killing Me! SCIENCE FICTION Introduction H. G. WELLS (1886-1946) The Stolen Body ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-1988) Podkayne of Mars: Her Life and Times GEORGE R. R. MARTIN (b. 1948) The Last Super Bowl Game VONDA N. MCINTYRE (b. 1948) Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand CRAIG KEE STRETE (b. 1950) The Bleeding Man PICTURE BOOKS Introduction BLACK-AND-WHITE WANDA GÁG (1893-1946) From Millions of Cats MUNRO LEAF (1905-1976); illustrator ROBERT LAWSON (1892-1957) From The Story of Ferdinand ROBERT McCLOSKEY (1914-2003) From Make Way for Ducklings EDWARD ARDIZZONE (1900-1979) From Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE (b. 1919); illustrator EDWARD GOREY (1925-2000) From The Shrinking of Treehorn RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925); illustrator JAMES MARSHALL (1942-1992) From Dinner at Alberta's ALFRED NOYES (1880-1958); illustrator CHARLES KEEPING (1924-1988) From The Highwayman PATRICIA C. MCKISSACK (b. 1944); illustrator BRIAN PINKNEY (b. 1961) From The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG (b. 1949) From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick DAVID MACAULAY (b. 1946) BAAA COLOR HEINRICH HOFFMAN (1809-1894) From Struwwelpeter KATE GREENAWAY (1846-1901) From Under the Window RANDOLPH CALDECOTT (1846-1886) From Sing a Song for Sixpence BLANCHE FISHER WRIGHT From The Real Mother Goose BERTHA UPTON (1849-1912); illustrator FLORENCE UPTON (1873-1922) From The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg HELEN BANNERMAN (1862-1946) From The Story of Little Black Sambo JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939); illustrator JERRY PINKNEY (b. 1939) From Sam and the Tigers BEATRIX POTTER (1866-1943) From The Tale of Peter Rabbit >> From a letter to Noel Moore (1893) >> "Now my dears" (Warne, 1902) >> "Now run along" (U.S., 1982) >> "One day they were allowed" (Ladybird, 1987) >> "Book of the film" version (Warne, 1992) SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949) From Clever Bill JEAN de BRUNHOFF (1899-1937) From The Story of Babar the Little Elephant MARJORIE FLACK (1897-1958) From Angus and the Ducks ROBERT L. MAY (1905-1976) From Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ROGER DUVOISIN (1904-1980) From The Happy Lion MAURICE SENDAK (b. 1928) From Where the Wild Things Are EZRA JACK KEATS (1916-1983) From The Snowy Day DR. SEUSS [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (1904-1991) From Green Eggs and Ham ARNOLD LOBEL (1933-1987) From Frog and Toad Are Friends RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934) From Fungus the Bogeyman ERIC CARLE (b. 1929) From The Very Hungry Caterpillar PAT HUTCHINS (b. 1942) From Rosie's Walk RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925); illustrator QUENTIN BLAKE (b. 1932) From How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934) From The Snowman JENNY WAGNER (b. 1939); illustrator RON BROOKS (b. 1948) From John Brown, Rose, and the Midnight Cat ALLAN AHLBERG (b. 1938); illustrator JANET AHLBERG (1944-1994) From Each Peach Pear Plum JOHN BURNINGHAM (b. 1936) From Come Away from the Water, Shirley DONALD HALL (b. 1928); illustrator BARBARA COONEY (1917-2000) From The Ox-Cart Man MEM FOX (b. 1946); illustrator JULIE VIVAS (b. 1947) From Possum Magic GABRIELLE VINCENT [Monique Martin] (1928-2000) From Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine DAVID McKEE (b. 1935) From I Hate My Teddy Bear DENNIS LEE (b. 1938); illustrator MARY-LOUISE GAY (b. 1952) From Lizzy's Lion LYNLEY DODD (b. 1941) From Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper DAVID MACAULAY (b. 1946) From Black and White JON SCIESZKA (b. 1954); illustrator LANE SMITH (b. 1959) From The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales COMICS Introduction From Funny Folks (1887) From Impossible Adventures (ca. 1888) RICHARD F. OUTCAULT (1863-1928) From The Yellow Kid, No. 1 (1897) WINSOR McCAY (1869-1934) From Little Nemo in Slumberland (1908) From The Funnies, No. 1 (1929) HERGÉ [GEORGES RÉMI] (1907-1993) From Tintin in the Land of the Soviets From Tintin in America WALT DISNEY (1901-1966) and FLOYD GOTTFREDSON (1905-1986) From Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine (1935) JOE SHUSTER (1914-1992); text by JERRY SIEGEL (1914-1996) From Action Comics, No. 1 (1938) FRANK HAMPSON (1918-1985) From Eagle, No. 1 (1950) ALBERT UDERZO (b. 1927); text by RENÉ GOSCINNY (1926-1977) From Asterix in Britain (1966) MARVEL COMICS From The Hulk (1982) From The Life of Pope John Paul II (1982) VERSE Introduction LULLABIES AND BABY SONGS All the Pretty Little Horses Go to Sleepy, Little Baby [A Baby Song] Rocky Bye Baby [Bye, O my baby] [Baby, baby, naughty baby] [Baby and I] [Bye, baby hunting] [Hush-a-bye, baby] [Hush-a-ba, babie, lie still] [Hush-a-bye, lie still and sleep] Cradle Song [Hush-a-bye a baa-lamb] [Norwegian Lullaby] Raisins and Almonds All Through the Night [He'll toil for thee] The Little Oprhan (Robert Elice) Lullaby of a Female Convict to Her Child (Henry Kirke White) [Sleep, baby, sleep] (Robert Ellice) Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Eugene Field) NURSERY VERSE [How many days has my baby to play?] [Jeremiah, blow the fire] [Daffy-Down-Dilly] [Lavender's blue] [Ride a cock-horse] [Baa, baa, black sheep] [Little Bo-peep] [Little boy blue] [Three blind mice] [Four and twenty tailors] [There was an owl] [Dickery, dickery, dare] [The man in the moon] [Pease porridge hot] [Hey diddle diddle] [Jack and Jill] [Little Jack Horner] [There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all] [There was an old woman / And nothing she had] [There was an old woman who lived in a shoe] [Poor old Robinson Crusoe!] [For want of a nail] [One fine day in the middle of the night] [Doctor Faustus was a good man] [Blessed be the memory] [Three Wise Men of Gotham] [Miss Buss and Miss Beale] [I'll tell you a story] [Wee Willie Winkie] RIDDLES AND WORDPLAY [Riddle me, riddle me ree] [Hyder iddle diddle dell] JOHN COTTON (1925-2003) Totleigh Riddles Texts and Contexts: TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR JANE TAYLOR (1783-1824) The Star LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) [Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat] UNK WHITE (1900-1986) Twinkle, Twinkle, Southern Cross (folk version) Ringo, Ringo, Ringo Starr (American folk version) JOHN AGARD (b. 1949) Twinkle Twinkle Firefly (Caribbean version) PLAYGROUND VERSE [How many miles to Babylon?] [Ear-r-r-r-r-ly in the morning] [Down to the carpet you must go] [Shortenin' bread] [Little Sally Water] [Little Sally Walker] [All hid?] NONSENSE EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888) The Owl and the Pussy-cat The Jumblies LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) How doth the little crocodile 'Tis the voice of the Lobster Jabberwocky NANCY WILLARD (b. 1936) William Blake's Inn for Innocent and Experienced Travelers The Wise Cow Makes Way, Room, and Believe Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way MARGARET MAHY (b. 1936) 17 Kings and 42 Elephants POETRY COLLECTIONS CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894) Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) A Child's Garden of Verses >> To Alison Cunningham >> Bed in Summer >> A Thought >> At the Seaside >> Young Night Thought >> Whole Duty of Children >> Rain >> Pirate Story >> Foreign Lands >> Windy Nights >> Travels >> Singing >> Looking Forward >> A Good Play >> Where Go the Boats? >> Auntie’s Skirts >> The Land of Counterpane >> The Island of Nod >> My Shadow >> System >> A Good Boy >> Escape at Bedtime >> Marching Song >> The Cow >> Happy Thought >> The Wind >> Keepsake Mill >> Good and Bad Children >> Foreign Children >> The Sun’s Travels >> The Lamplight >> My Bed Is a Boat >> The Swing >> The Moon >> Time to Rise >> Fairy Bread >> Looking-Glass River >> From a Railway Carriage >> Winter-Time >> The Hayloft >> Farewell to the Farm >> North-West Passage >> Child Alone, The >> The Unseen Playmate >> My Ship and I >> My Kingdom >> Picture Books in Winter >> My Treasures >> Block City >> The Land of Story-Books >> Armies in the Fire >> The Little Land >> Garden Days >> Night and Day >> Nest Eggs >> The Flowers >> Summer Sun >> The Dumb Soldier >> Autumn Fires >> The Gardener >> Historical Associations >> Envoys >> To Willie and Henrietta >> To My Mother >> To Auntie >> To Minnie >> To My Name-Child >> To Any Reader WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) Peacock Pie >> The Horseman >> Alas, Alack! >> Tired Tim >> Mima >> The Huntsman >> The Bandog >> I Can’t Abear >> The Dunce >> Chicken >> Some One >> Bread and Cherries >> Old Shellover >> Hapless >> The Little Bird >> Mr. Alacadacca >> Not I! >> Cake and Sack >> Groat nor Tester >> The Ship of Rio >> Tillie >> Jim Jay >> Up and Down >> Miss T. >> The Cupboard >> The Barber’s >> Hide and Seek >> Mrs. Earth >> Then >> The Window >> Poor Henry >> Full Moon >> The Bookman >> The Quartette >> Mistletoe >> The Lost Shoe >> The Truants >> The Sea Boy >> Must and May >> Berries >> Off the Ground >> The Thief at Robin’s Gate >> A Widow’s Weeds >> ‘Sooeep?’ >> Mrs. MacQueen >> The Little Green Orchard >> Poor ‘Miss 7’ >> Sam >> Andy Battle’s and Nod’s Song >> Late >> The Old Soldier >> The Picture >> The Little Old Cupid >> King David >> The Penny Owing >> Kings and Queens >> The Old House >> Unstooping >> All But Blind >> Nicholas Nye >> The Pigs and the Charcoal-Burner >> Five Eyes >> Tit for Tat >> Earth Folk >> Grim >> Summer Evening >> At the Keyhold >> The Old Stone House >> The Ruin >> The Ride-by-Nights >> Peak and Puke >> The Changeling >> The Mocking Fairy >> The Honey Robbers >> Longlegs >> Bewitched >> Melmillo >> Trees >> Silver >> Nobody Knows >> Will Ever? >> Wanderers >> Many a Mickle >> Snow >> The Horseman >> The Song and the Secret >> The Song of Soldiers >> The Bees’ Song >> The Song of Enchantment >> Dream-Song >> The Song of Shadows >> The Song of the Mad Prince >> The Song of ‘Finis’ ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) The Penny Fiddle >> The Penny Fiddle >> Allie >> Robinson Crusoe >> The Six Badgers >> One Hard Look >> Jock o’ Binnorie >> What Did I Dream? >> Lift-Boy >> Henry and Mary >> Dicky >> Love Without Hope >> The Hills of May >> In the Wilderness >> ‘The General Elliott’ >> Vain and Careless >> The Forbidden Play >> The Bedpost >> The Well-dressed Children >> The Magical Picture >> The Alice Jean >> A Boy in Church >> How and Why >> Warning to Children RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) The Bat Poet CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917-2003) Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems >> Early in the Morning >> I Went to Santa Barbara >> John Clark >> Spin Me a Web, Spider >> Tommy Hyde >> One for the Man >> Mrs McPhee >> There Was an Old Woman >> Daniel Brent >> Freddie Phipps >> Charity Chadder >> Jeremiah >> High on the Wall >> Wilbur >> My Cat Plumduff >> The Owl Looked out of the Ivy Bush >> Ring Dove >> Baby, Baby >> At Linkinhorne >> In My Garden >> Foxglove >> Stone in the Water >> Round the Corner Comes Jack Fall >> Said the Clown >> Janny Jim Jan >> Mistletoe >> Balloono >> Take Me to the Water Fair >> Rebekah >> Nicholas Naylor >> John, John the Baptist >> Tell, Tell the Bees >> Johnny Come over the Water >> I Love My Darling Tractor >> Let’s God Ride >> Here’s the Reverend Rundle >> The Money Came in, Came in >> Good Morning, Mr Croco-docodile >> When I Was a Boy >> I Am the Song LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936) Some of the Days of Everett Anderson >> Monday Morning Good Morning >> Tuesday All Day Rain >> Wednesday Noon Adventure >> Thursday Evening >> Friday Waiting for Mom >> Friday Mom Is home Payday >> Saturday Night Late >> Sunday Morning Lonely >> Sunday Night Good PAT MORA (b. 1942) Confetti: Poems for Children >> Sun Song >> Colors Crackle, Colors Roar >> Purple Snake >> Can I, Can I Catch the Wind >> Cloud Dragons >> Castanet Clicks >> Mexican Magician >> Leaf Soup >> I Hear, I Hear >> Dancing Paper >> Abuelita’s Lap >> Words Free As Confetti >> River Voice MARILYN NELSON (b. 1946) Carver: A Life in Poems >> Out of “Slave’s Ransom” >> Prayer of the Ivory-Handled Knife >> Washboard Wizard >> A Ship Without a Rudder >> Curve-Breaker >> My People >> From an Alabama Farmer >> The Sweet-Hearts >> The Joy of Sewing >> Veil Raisers >> How a Dream Dies >> The Wild Garden >> Professor Carver’s Bible Class >> Friends in the Clan >> Driving Dr. Carver >> Baby Carver >> Last Talk with Jim Hardwick GRACE NICHOLS (b. 1950) Come on into My Tropical Garden >> Come on into My Tropical Garden >> Alligator >> I Like to Stay Up >> They Were My People >> Poor Grandma >> Riddle >> Granny Granny Please Comb My Hair >> My Cousin Melda >> Wha Me Mudder Do >> The Fastest Belt in Town >> Moody Mister Sometimish >> Mango >> Banana Man >> Drinking Water-coconut >> Early Country Village Morning >> The Sun >> Sky >> I Am the Rain >> Lizard >> Dinosaurs >> Cow’s Complaint >> Old Man’s Weary thoughts >> I’m a Parrot >> Parakeets >> Doctor Blair >> For Forest >> Sea Timeless Song >> Crab Dance PLAYS Introduction J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up BARBARA FIELD (b. 1933) A Christmas Carol LAURENCE YEP (b. 1948) Dragonwings BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION Introduction CONDUCT BOOKS FOR BOYS From The Father's Legacy; or, Faithful Counsels of a Good Father to His Children and Friends (1678) JOHN BARNARD (1685-1764) From A Present for an Apprentice; or, A Sure Guide to Gain Both Esteem and an Estate PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694-1773) Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son >> Awkwardness of Different Kinds >> Bashfulness >> Matrimony CONDUCT BOOKS FOR GIRLS Duties of a Lady's Maid (1825) >> Familiarity with Superiors >> Stays and Corsets >> Padding, Bandaging, &c. to Improve the Figure MINNA THOMAS ANTRIM (b. 1861) Don't's for Girls: A Manual of Mistakes DORA LANGLOIS (1865-1940) The Child: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughters ROBERT BADEN-POWELL (1857-1941) From Rovering to Success: A Book of Life-Sport for Young Men ROBIE H. HARRIS (b. 1940); illustrator MICHAEL EMBERLEY (b. 1960) From It's Perfectly Normal >> The Bird and the Bee >> Lots of Questions: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health LIFE WRITING Introduction From Facts to Correct Fancies; or, Short Narratives compiled from the Biography of Remarkable Women, written for children, by a Mother (1840) CLARA L. BALFOUR (1808-1878) Women Worth Emulating >> Chapter III. Miss Caroline Herschel CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823-1901) A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands >> What Is a Golden Deed? >> Fathers and Sons (1642-1798) THE BROWNIES' BOOK (1920-1921) Benjamin Banneker America's First Martyr-Patriot (Crispus Attucks) The Story of Phillis Wheatley "The Bravest of the Brave" (Elizabeth Blakesley) The Story of Harriet Tubman ANNE FRANK (1929-1945) The Diary of a Young Girl >> July 11, 1942 >> July 11, 1943 >> Jan. 2, 1944 >> Feb. 12, 1944 >> Feb. 23, 1944 >> Aug. 1, 1944 JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915) Homesick: My Own Story MILTON MELTZER (b. 1915) Benjamin Franklin: The New American >> Chapter 6. Improve Yourself, Improve Your Community >> Chapter 7. Inventor and Scientist >> Chapter 8. Disarming the Clouds of Heaven ADVENTURE STORIES Introduction DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660-1731) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (children's version, 1823) ERNEST THOMPSON SETON (1860-1946) Raggylug: The Story of a Cottontail Rabbit A. A. MILNE (1882-1956) Winnie-the Pooh >> Chapter VIII. In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole SHANNON GARST (1894-1981) James Bowie and His Famous Knife E. L. KONIGSBURG From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler SCHOOL STORIES Introduction SARAH FIELDING (1710-1768) From The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy THOMAS HUGHES (1822-1896) Tom Brown's Schooldays >> Chapter V. Rugby and Football >> Chapter VI. After the Match RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) Stalky & Co. >> An Unsavory Interlude EVELYN SHARP (1869-1955) In School ELEANOR ESTES (1906-1988) The Hundred Dresses AIDAN CHAMBERS (b. 1934) The Present Takers ALMA FLOR ADA (b. 1938) My Name is Maria Isabel TIM WYNNE-JONES (b. 1948) Tweedledum and Tweedledead NIKKI GRIMES (b. 1950) Bronx Masquerade DOMESTIC FICTION Introduction MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) From Original Stories from Real Life MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768-1849) Lazy Lawrence The Birth-day Present MARY MARTHA SHERWOOD (1775-1851) From The History of the Fairchild Family; or, The Child's Manual CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823-1901) A Patchwork Fever LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) Psyche's Art (1868) FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT (1849-1924) Editha's Burglar L. M. MONTGOMERY (1874-1942) Each in His Own Tongue BEVERLY CLEARLY (b. 1916) Ramona and Her Father LENSEY NAMIOKA (b. 1929) Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear ROCH CARRIER (b. 1937) The Hockey Sweater MILDRED D. TAYLOR (b. 1943) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry BRUCE BROOKS (b. 1950) Out Timeline General Bibliography Selected Bibliographies Permissions Acknowledgments Index of Illustrators and Illustrations Index