Hunter Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Is anyone familiar with the textbook Classics of Children's Literature? Unlike most anthologies, this one includes mostly full novels. This is the 6th edition. http://www.amazon.com/Classics-Childrens-Literature-John-Griffith/dp/0131891839/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394741893&sr=1-1&keywords=Classics+of+Children%27s+Literature I have the 4th edition, which does not include Charlotte's Web or Anne of Green Gables or the Velveteen Rabbit. It looks like earlier editions included Dickens and Wilder. I think Wizard or Oz, Secret Garden, and King of the Golden River, and the excerpts from Winnie the Pooh might be dropped after the 4th edition. I'm curious if anyone is familiar with the different editions. I find it interesting to see which titles are included in an anthology with a limited number of pages. I'd love to get a master list of all the novels chosen, even if for only one edition. I have a really really hard time narrowing down book lists. I'm thinking of using a master list from these 6 editions as the starting place to come up with a list of children's literature. I have a separate list for preparing for Great Books and serious adult study. And another list focused on cultural literacy again focused on what adults need to know. But I want a list devoted to CHILDREN to look at. But it needs to be CONCISE, because long lists just overwhelm me and make me give up. I have the 2nd edition on hold at the library. I'm wondering if anyone else is interested in compiling a master list, or comparing editions, if they can get any of these editions at their library. Or if they own any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommytoFour Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Here is some info: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/classics-of-childrens-literature-john-w-griffith/1100057539?ean=9780023473401 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hunter Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Thanks! So they dropped those 3 novels, and the Squirrel story by Potter, and the Just So stories by Kipling. I wonder which Wilder and Dickens books were dropped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T'smom Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 There are a lot of cheap used 5th editions on Amazon (well, on the 'available from these sellers' part). The one that you linked, the 6th is crazy expensive and I couldn't find any at all of the other editions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 The 4th edition is ISBN # 0133479641 Here are some other ISBN#s 0023471905 0023472103 0023473401 0023472901 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 I think I have all of editions 2, 4, 5 and 6 typed up. Thank you KELLis for getting me started! Classics of Children's Literature 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th. John W. Griffith and Charles H. Frey Charles Perrault (1628-1703) The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods Little Red Riding Hood Blue Beard The Master Cat, or Puss in the Boots Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper Mme le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) Beauty and the Beast John Newbery (1713-1767) Mother Goose Rhymes I won’t be my father’s Jack. Three wise men of Gotham. There was an old woman. Ding dong bell. Little Tom Tucker. Se saw, Margery Daw. Great A, little a. High diddle diddle. Ride a cock horse. Cock a doodle doo. Jack and Gill. Hush-a-by baby. Little Jack Horner. Pease-porridge hot. Jack Sprat. Tell tale tit. Patty cake, patty cake. When I was a little boy. This pig went to market. There was a man of Thessaly. Bah, bah, black sheep. There were two blackbirds. Boys and girls come out to play. Dickery, dickery, dock. The Brothers Grimm Jacob (1785-1863); Wilhelm (1786-1859) Snow-white. The Frog Prince. Hansel and Gretel. Rumpelstiltskin. Mother Hulda. The Bremen Town Musicians. Aschenputtel. The Fisherman and His Wife. The Brave Little Tailor. The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. Rupunzel. The Robber Bridegroom. The Almond Tree. The Sleeping Beauty. Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875) The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories. The Little Mermaid. The Princess and the Pea. The Tinder Box. The Little Match Girl. The Swineherd. The Emperor's New Clothes. The Steadfast Tin Soldier. The Ugly Duckling. Peter Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe (1812-1885); (1813-1882) East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon The Three Billy-Goat's Gruff Edward Lear (1812-1888) A Book of Nonsense There was an Old Man in a tree. There was an Old Man in a boat. There was an Old Person of Philoe. There was an Old Man of the Dee. There was an Old Man who said, “How.†There was an Old Man who said, “Hush!†There was an Old Person of Bangor. There was an Old Man with a beard. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. The Dong with a Luminous Nose. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) A Christmas Carol John Ruskin (1819-1900) The King of the Golden River Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) The Adventures of Pinocchio Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Little Women Part 1 only, up to chapter 23 Aunt March Settles the Question. Part 2, the later chapters were originally another book. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) The Secret Garden Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Treasure Island A Child's Garden of Verses Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) Tom Tit Tot Jack and the Beanstalk The Story of the Three Little Pigs The Story of the Three Bears Henny-Penny Molly Whuppie Lazy Jack Johny-Cake Master of All Masters L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) The Wind in the Willows James M. Barrie (1860-1937) Peter Pan Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) The Jungle Book Just So Stories Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) Little House on the Prairie L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942). Anne of Green Gables. Jack London (John Griffith) (1876-1916) The Call of the Wild Margery Williams Bianco (1880-1944). The Velveteen Rabbit. A. A. Milne (1882-1956) Winnie-the-Pooh C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe E.B. White (1899-1985). Charlotte’s Web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Victoria~ Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Are you creating a book list by grade level, Hunter? I need one to go by! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 I wasn't thinking to break the list into grades. I just wanted the list I wanted to complete over K-8. There are about 20 novels here, some poems and some stories. So, that's 2-3 novels a year. If someone else wants to put these books in order of difficulty and/or assign grade levels that would be great. I don't know the websites with that information. I'm just so pleased with this list as a supplement to the Michael Dirda list of "patterning works", that I hadn't thought any further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Does anyone know the source of the illustration in the 5th edition cover? I squinted at my screen and decided it was Irene Haas; I thought maybe from the summertime book, but I checked it out of the library and, while similar, did not find that picture. It is darling. I bought a bunch of old editions of this to send to people with few books. Thanks to dsmith from the previous thread. And to Hunter for starting threads that inevitably turn up these gems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Someone else on this forum recently told me about the book. I think it might have been in the only 6 books thread. I think I'm going to need to figure out who it was and give them credit. Sorry, I don't know anything about the artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 Oh, Duh! I just looked in my NASTY copy. Irene Haas. Daisy Bush Ball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 The credit for this book goes to dsmith. You can all go to this post of hers and hit "like". Stripe you already did. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/506207-6-best-books-ever-so-3-books-a-year/?p=5509067 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Oh, Duh! I just looked in my NASTY copy. Irene Haas. Daisy Bush Ball. Thank you. I can't seem to find a book by that name -- is it a painting or something not in a book? Or can you tell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 It says "Cover art: Irene Haas, sketch for 'Daisy Bush Ball". It kind of looks like a watercolor. It's pretty muddy looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 Are you creating a book list by grade level, Hunter? I need one to go by! AO has their entire 0-12 booklist by author and by title. I was able to see their suggested grade recommendations for most of these books. Authorhttp://amblesideonline.org/BooklistAuthor.shtml Titlehttp://amblesideonline.org/BooklistTitle.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I am going to check out AOL list again but I wanted to say that Veritas Press has almost all of these in their literature section broken down by grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 I am going to check out AOL list again but I wanted to say that Veritas Press has almost all of these in their literature section broken down by grade. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 I think Vertitas Press suggestions are independent reading, and AO are often read alouds and sometimes keyed to the history rotation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I think I will keep a children's poetry book going plus Mother Goose year round for poetry. And I will keep a running book of short stories from the children's list plus one novel from the children's list. The Bible is a constant. This leaves about 12 novels and the Shakespeare plays. That would be one per month. I will have to think about how to fit in Shakespeare. I don't know if he is better read fast or slowly. This only leaves out picture books. Maybe one per day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 stm4him, you are going to try and do this entire list in a year, plus parts of the Dirda patterning works list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 But what about adult poetry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Well I am thinking this : April- Bulfinch's Mythology May The Iliad June The Odyssey July Plutarch AAugust Dante September Arabian Nights October Arthur November Don Quiote December Robinson Crusoe January Gulliver's Travels February Pride and Prejudice March Sherlock Holmes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I would never attempt the children's list in a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 stm4him :grouphug: but also :banghead: All of Plutarch in a month? The 2 volume Dryden version or something else? I've been collecting hardcopy versions of volumes for the Dirda list, and they are BIG books and HARD books. And I have a copy of one of the Classics of Children's Literature anthologies, so all the novels and stories combined from all the volumes would be twice that, I think. I could do the children's list in year, easier than the Dirda list, unless I was using all picture book editions and adaptions of the Dirda list. This thread is the children's list. You have me so confused this week. I love you, but you still have me confused. :) What's the rush? This is said in curiosity not confrontation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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