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HERE AND NOW STORY BOOK

HERE AND NOW
STORY BOOK

TWO- TO SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS

Experimental Stories Written for the Children
of the City and Country School
(formerly the Play School)
and the Nursery School of the
Bureau of Educational Experiments.

 

by

LUCY SPRAGUE MITCHELL

 

Illustrated by

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

 

 

Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., for
PARENTS’ INSTITUTE, Inc.
Publishers of Parents’ Magazine
and Approved Publications for Young People
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York

copyright, 1921,
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC.

copyright (renewal) 1948
BY LUCY SPRAGUE MITCHELL

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All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

page

Foreword: By Caroline Pratt ix

Introduction 1

Content: Its educational and psychological basis 4

Form: Its patterns in words, sentences and stories 46

Stories:

Two-Year-Olds: Types to be adjusted to individual children. Content, personal activities, told in motor and sense terms. Form reduced to a succession of few simple patterns.

Marni Takes a Ride 73

Marni Gets Dressed in the Morning 81

Three-Year-Olds: Content based on enumeration of familiar sense and motor associations and simple familiar chronological sequences. Some attempt to give opportunity for own contribution or for “motor enjoyment.”

The Room with the Window Looking Out on the Garden 89

The Many Horse Stable 99

My Kitty 105

The Rooster and the Hens 109

The Little Hen and the Rooster 114

Jingles:

My Horse, Old Dan 115

Horsie Goes Jog-a-Jog 118

Auto, Auto 119

Four- and Five-Year-Olds: Content, simple relationships between familiar moving objects, stressing particularly the idea of use. Emphasis on sound. Attempt to make verse patterns carry the significant points in the narrative.

How Spot Found a Home 121

The Dinner Horses 131

The Grocery Man 137

The Journey 141

Pedro’s Feet 147

How the Engine Learned the Knowing Song 153

The Fog Boat Story 167