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crow s. hue h l^nildiferis Weijatuije ' nttue cemcntoo SCHOOL THIRD EDTCN Charlotte S. Huck THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ,. Childrens Literature '■in the elementary School THIRD EDITION Holt Rinehart and Winston New York Chicago San Francisco Atlanta Dallas Montreal Toronto London Sydney Cover design: Fred Pusterla Book design: Art Ritter Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Huck, Charlotte S. Children's Literature in the elementary school. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Children's literature—Study and teaching. I. Title. LB1575.H8 1976 372.6'4 75-29281 ISBN: 0-03-010051-8 Copyright © 1961, 1968 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright © 1976 by Charlotte S. Huck All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 8 9 032 9 8 7 6 5 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following authors, by John Ciardi. Reprinted by permission of J. B. Lippincott Company. publishers, and agencies for permission to reprint poetry selections "Circles" from The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg, copyright 1936, by from copyrighted material. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; renewed, 1964, by Carl Sandburg. Two verses from "Abraham Lincoln" from A Book of Americans Reprinted by permission of the publishers. "City" by Langston by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet (Holt, Rinehart and Hughes, reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorpo Winston, Inc.). Copyright, 1933, by Stephen Vincent Benet. Copyright rated. Copyright © 1958 by Langston Hughes. "City, City" by Marci renewed © 1961, by Rosemary Carr Benet. Reprinted by permission Ridlon from That Was Summer. Text copyright © 1969 by Marci of Brandt & Brandt. "The Adventures of Isabel" by Ogden Nash, Ridlon. Used by permission of the author. "Conversation with My Copyright 1936 by Ogden Nash. From The Face Is Familiar by Ogden self" by Eve Merriam, Copyright © 1964 by Eve Merriam. From It Nash, by permission of Little, Brown and Co. "Apartment House" Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme. Used by permission of Atheneum by Gerald Raftery, by permission of Gerald Raftery. "April" by Publishers. "Cow" by Valerie Worth, reprinted with the permission Marcia Lee Masters. From her book Intent on Earth, originally from of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., from Small Poems by Valerie Worth, the magazine Contemporary Poetry. Used by permission of the author. Copyright © 1972 by Valerie Worth. "Cows" by James Reeves, pub "Ashes my burnt hut," permission granted by The Peter Pauper Press, lished by the Oxford University Press in The Blackbird in the Lilac. Inc., Mount Vernon, New York. "Asleep," from the poem "Asleep," Used by permission of the author. which appears in The Sparrow Bush by Elizabeth Coatsworth. Text "December Leaves" from Don't Ever Cross a Crocodile by Kaye copyright © 1966 by Grosset and Dunlap, Inc. Published by Grosset Starbird. Copyright © 1963 by Kaye Starbird. Reprinted by permis and Dunlap, Inc. "At the edge of the world" from Singing for Power sion of J. B. Lippincott Company. Portion of the poem "Dinky," by Ruth Underhill. Originally published by The University of Cali copyright 1953 by Beatrice Roethke, Administratrix of the Estate of fornia Press; reprinted by permission of the Regents of the University Theodor Roethke, from the book The Collected Poems of Theodor of California. Roethke. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. From "The Ballad of William Sycamore" from Ballads and Poems "Discovery" from The Golden Hive, copyright, 1962, 1967, by Harry by Stephen Vincent Benet. Copyright 1931 by Stephen Vincent Benet. Behn. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Copyright © 1959 by Rosemary Carr Benet. Reprinted by permission "The Doors", copyright © 1966, by Richard Lewis. Reprinted by of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. "Blue" by Mary Joyce Pritchard, permission of Simon and Schuster. "Dreams" by Langston Hughes, in Elementary English, vol. 40 (May 1963), p. 543. Reprinted by permis Copyright 1932 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and renewed 1960 by sion of the National Council of Teachers of English. "Boys Don't Langston Hughes. Reprinted from Don't You Turn Back, by Langston Cry" from What's Happening Magazine. By permission of the Director, Hughes, by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "Dunkirk," Copyright Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute. "Brother" by Mary Ann Hoberman, 1941 and renewed 1969 by Robert Nathan. Reprinted from The Green reprinted by permission of Russell and Volkening, Inc., as agents for Leaf, by Robert Nathan, by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. the author. Copyright © 1959 by Mary Ann Hoberman. "Buildings" "Everybody Says," reprinted by permission of G. P. Putnam's by Myra Cohn Livingston, from Whispers and Other Poems by Myra Sons from All Together by Dorothy Aldis. Copyright 1925-1928, 1934, Cohn Livingston. Copyright © 1958 by Myra Cohn Livingston. By 1939, 1952 by Dorothy Aldis. permission of the author. "Far and Near" from The Wizard in the Well, © 1956 by Harry "The cabin is small' by Carol Bartlett, 6th grade student of Allaire Behn. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Stuart, Boulder, Colorado. Reprinted by permission of Woman's Day "A few flies/ and I," Copyright © 1969, by Jean Merrill, from A Magazine. Copyright © 1961 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. "The Cat Few Flies and I: Haiku by Issa, selected by Jean Merrill and Ronni Heard the Cat-Bird" by John Ciardi from I Met a Man. Copyright Solbert, published by Pantheon Books. "First Snow" from A Pocketful © 1961 by John Ciardi. Reprinted by permission of the publisher of Poems by Marie Louise Allen. Text copyright © 1957 by Marie Houghton Mifflin Company. "Song of an Unlucky Man" from the book Allen Howarth. By permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. A Crocodile Has Me by the Leg: African Poems by Leonard W. Doob, "Foghorns," text copyright © 1969 by Lilian Moore. From I Thought published by Walker & Company, Inc., New York, N.Y., © 1966, I Heard the City. Used by permission of Atheneum Publishers. 1967 by Leonard W. Doob. "Children When They're Very Sweet" "Fueled," from Serve Me a Slice of Moon, © 1965, by Marcie Hans. from The Man Who Sang the Sillies by John Ciardi. Copyright © 1961 Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Acknowledgments v “The Grasshopper/' Copyright 1952 by David McCord. From Farjeon. "My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough," Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord, by permission of Little, Copyright 1934 and renewed 1962 by Stephen Spender. Reprinted Brown and Co. from Collected Poems, 1928-1953, by Stephen Spender, by permission “Hello and Good-by" by Mary Ann Hoberman. Reprinted by of Random House, Inc. Also reprinted by permission of Faber and permission of Russell and Volkening, Inc., as agents for the author. Faber Ltd. from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1959 by Mary Ann Hoberman. “Homesick" from . “New Shoes," Copyright © 1932, by The John Day Company, I Never Saw Another Butterfly. edited by H. Volavkova. 1964. Inc. Reprinted from The Golden Flute by Alice Hubbard and Adeline McGraw-Hill Book Company. Used with permission of the publisher. Babbit by permission of The John Day Company, Inc., an Intext From “Homework" in Egg Thoughts and Other Frances Songs by Russell publisher. Hoban. Text copyright © 1972 by Russell Hoban. Reprinted by “The Old House" by Walter de la Mare, by permission of The permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. "Hughbert and the Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare, and The Society of Authors Glue" from The Rose on My Cake by Karla Kuskin. Copyright © 1964 as their representative. “An old silent pond," Basho. From Cricket by Karla Kuskin. Reprinted by permission of Harper and Row, Songs: Japanese Haiku translated and © 1964 by Harry Behn. Reprinted Publishers, Inc. by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. “Otto" from Bronze- “I Like It When It's Mizzly" from I Like Weather by Aileen Fisher. ville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Books. Copyright © 1956 by Text Copyright © 1963 by Aileen Fisher, with permission of Thomas Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Y. Crowell Company, Inc., publisher. '"1/ says the poem," Copyright Row, Publishers, Inc. © 1964 by Eve Merriam. From It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme. Used “The Pickety Fence," Copyright 1952 by David McCord. From by permission of Atheneum Publishers. Excerpt from Independent Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord, by permission of Little, Voices, Copyright © 1968 by Eve Merriam. From Independent Voices. Brown and Co. “Poem," Copyright 1932 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Used by permission of Atheneum Publishers. Eight lines from and renewed 1960 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted from Don't You “Indian" from A Book of Americans by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Turn Back, by Langston Hughes, by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Benet (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.). Copyright, 1933, by Stephen Inc. “Poem of Praise" from Poems by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Copyright Vincent Benet. Copyright renewed © 1961, by Rosemary Carr 1934 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., renewed 1962 by Elizabeth Benet. Reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt. “Inside a Poem," Coatsworth Beston). “Poem to Mud," text copyrighted © 1969 by Copyright © 1964 by Eve Merriam. From It Doesn't Always Have to Zilpha Keatley Snyder from Today Is Saturday. Used by permission Rhyme. Used by permission of Atheneum Publishers. “It Happened," of Atheneum Publishers. "The Prayer of the Cock" from Prayers from Copyright © 1972 by Myra Cohn Livingston. From The Malibu and the Ark by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, translated by Rumer Godden. Other Poems by Myra Cohn Livingston (A Margaret K. McEIderry English text copyright © 1962 by Rumer Godden. All rights reserved. Book). Used by permission of Atheneum Publishers. Reprinted by permission of The Viking Press, Inc. “Primer Lesson" "Keep a poem in your pocket" and other lines from Something from Slabs of the Sunburnt West by Carl Sandburg, copyright, 1922, Special by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, © 1958.