Here and Now Story Book: Two- to Seven-year-oldsThe stories in the book are grouped for expected developmental levels for children between the ages of two and seven, reflecting the growing world of the child from self-centric to an understanding of facts far removed from the child's immediate world. |
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Page 53 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 42 - Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.
Page 54 - There was a little turtle. He lived in a box. He swam in a puddle. He climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at a flea. He snapped at a minnow. And he snapped at me.
Page 54 - TIME TO RISE A BIRDIE with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: "Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!
Page 16 - ... Children do not find the unusual piquant until they are firmly acquainted with the usual ; they do not find the preposterous humorous until they have intimate knowledge of ordinary behaviour ; they do not get the point of view of alien environments until .they are securely oriented in their own. . . . Nonsense when recognized and enjoyed as such is more than legitimate ; it is a part of every one's heritage. But nonsense which is confused with reality is vicious, the more so because its insinuations...
Page 54 - s naught to put a damper To the ardor of their play ; When I hear their laughter ringing, Then I 'm sure as sure can be That the Dinkey-Bird is singing In the amfalula tree. For the Dinkey-Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet — His roulades, appoggiaturas, And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation — Be they near or far away — Have especial delectation In that gladsome...
Page 15 - To the child the familiar is the interesting. And it remains so I believe through the transition period — somewhere about seven years — when the child becomes poignantly aware of the world outside his own immediate experience — of an order, physical or social, which he does not determine...
Page 3 - Mitchell has made a very great contribution to the literature of childhood and to the pedagogy of reason by her clear recognition of these possibilities, and her pioneer work in creating new models for materials to meet these educational and artistic needs : "I have assumed that anything to which a child gives his spontaneous attention, anything which he questions as he moves around the world, holds appropriate material about which to talk to him, either in speech or in writing. I have assumed that...
Page 15 - ... adult blindness. Children do not find the unusual piquant until they are firmly acquainted with the usual; they do not find the preposterous humorous until they have intimate knowledge of ordinary behaviour.
Page 63 - Can we not care for the way we say things to them and not merely what we say? Can we not speak in rhythm, in pleasing sounds, even in song for the mere sensuous delight it gives us and them, even though it adds nothing to the content of our remark? If we can, I feel sure children will not lose their native use of words : more, I think those of six and seven and eight who have lost it in part - and their stories show they have, - will win back to their spontaneous joy in the play of words.