Alley, in Miller, Kristy's Queer Christmas; Dog of Flanders, Ramee;
Felix, in Stein, Troubadour Tales; Good King Wenceslas (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; Hope's Christmas Tree, in Miller, Kristy's
Surprise Party, How a Bear Brought Christmas, in Miller, Kristy's Queer
Christmas; How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar, in Harte, Luck of
Roaring Camp; How Uncle Sam Observes Christmas, in Our Holidays Retold
from St. Nicholas; Lottie's Christmas Tree, in Miller, Kristy's Rainy
Day Picnic; St. Nicholas and the Innkeeper, in Walsh, Story of Santa
Klaus; St. Nicholas and the Robbers, in Walsh, Story of Santa Klaus; St.
Nicholas and the Slave Boy, in Walsh, Story of Santa Klaus; Santa Claus
on a Lark, Gladden; Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets, Stuart; The Birds'
Christmas Carol, Wiggin; The Coming of the Prince, in Field, Christmas
Tales and Christmas Verse; The Festival of St. Nicholas, in Dodge,
Hans Brinker; The Peace Egg, Ewing; The Symbol and the Saint, in Field,
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse.
For grades 7-8.
A Christmas Carol, Dickens; A Still Christmas, Repplier, in Morris, In
the Yule-Log Glow; The First Christmas Tree, Van Dyke; The Lost Word,
Van Dyke; The Mansion, Van Dyke; The Other Wise Man, Van Dyke; Cosette,
in Hugo, Les Miserables, book 3; Where Love is, There God is Also,
Tolstoy.
ARBOR DAY
For grades 1-4.
Flower of the Almond and Fruit of the Fig, in Foote, Little Fig-Tree
Stories; Earl and the Dryad, in Brown, Star Jewels; The Girl Who Became
a Pine Tree, in Judd, Wigwam Stories; The Kind Old Oak, in Poulsson,
In the Child's World; The Oak Tree, in Vawter, The Rabbit's Ransom; The
Workman and the Trees, in Ramaswami Raju, Indian Fables.
For grades 5-6.
Apple-Seed John, Child (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; How the Children
Saved Hamburg, in Marden, Winning Out; How the Indians Learned to Make
Maple Sugar, in University of the State of New York, Legends and Poetry
of the Forests; Old Pipes and the Dryad, in Stockton, Bee-Man of Orn;
Tale of Old Man and the Birch Tree, in University of the State of New
York, Legends and Poetry of the Forests; The Elm and the Vine, Rosas
(poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Gourd and the Palm (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Planting of the Apple Tree, Bryant (poem), in
Riverside Fifth Reader.
For grades 7-8.
Brier-Rose, Boyesen (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; How the Charter was
Saved, in Morris, Historical Tales, American; O-So-Ah, the Tall Pine
Speaks, in University of the State of New York, Legends and Poetry of
the Forests; The Eliot Oak, in Drake, New England Legends; The First of
the Trees, in University of the State of New York, Legends and Poetry of
the Forests; The Liberty Tree, in Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair, part
3. chapter 2; The Plucky Prince, May Bryant (poem), in Story-Telling
Poems; The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine, Mills; The Washington Elm, in
Drake, New England Legends.
BIRD DAY
For grades 1-4.
Out of the Nest, in Lindsay, More Mother Stories; The Fox and the Crow,
in Jacobs, Aesop's Fables; The Jackdaw and the Doves, in Scudder, Book
of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Jay and the Peacock, in Jacobs, Aesop's
Fables; The King, the Falcon, and the Drinking Cup, in Dutton, The
Tortoise and the Geese; The Lark and her Young Ones, in Scudder, Book
of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Monk and the Bird, in Scudder, Book of
legends; The Owl and his School, in Ramaswami Raju, Indian Fables;
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Lear (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The
Partridge and the Crow, in Dutton, The Tortoise and the Geese; The Pious
Robin, in Brown, Curious Book of Birds; The Rustic and the Nightingale,
in Dutton, The Tortoise and the Geese; The Sparrows, Thaxter (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Sparrows and the Snake, in Dutton, The Tortoise
and the Geese; The Spendthrift and the Swallow, in Scudder, Book
of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Story of the First Mocking-Bird, in
Holbrook, Book of Nature Myths; The Story of the Oriole, in Holbrook,
Book of Nature Myths; The Wren Who Brought Fire, in Brown, Curious Book
of Birds; Why the Peacock's Tail has a Hundred Eyes, in Holbrook, Book
of Nature Myths; Why the Peetweet Cries for Rain, in Holbrook, Book of
Nature Myths.
For grades 5-6.
A Madcap Thrush, in Miller, True Bird Stories; Antics in the Bird Room,
in Miller, True Bird Stories; Fate of the Children of Lir, in Grierson,
Children's Book of Celtie Stories; Halcyone, in Brown, Curious Book
of Birds; St. Francis's Sermon to the Birds, Longfellow (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; Saint Kentigern and the Robin, in Brown, Book
of Saints and Friendly Beasts; The Donkey and the Mocking-Bird, Rosas
(poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Early Girl, in Brown, Curious Book
of Birds; The Nightingale, in Andersen, Wonder Stories; The Parrot,
Campbell (poem), in Story-Telling Poems, The Phoenix, in Brown, Curious
Book of Birds; The Robin, Whittier (poem); The Sauey Oriole, in Miller,
True Bird Stories; The Wild Swans, in Andersen, Wonder Stories; Walter
son der Vogelweid, Longfellow (poem).
For grades 7-8.
Arnaux, the Chronicle of a Homing Pigeon, in Thompson-Seton, Animal
Heroes; King Edwin's Feast, Chadwiek (poem), in Story-Telling Poems;
Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog, in Riverside Seventh Reader; The Abbot
of Inisfalen, Allingham (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Birds of
Killingworth, Longfellow (poem); The Downy Woodpecker, in Bird Stories
from Burroughs; The Eagle, Tennyson (poem); The Emperor's Bird's-Nest,
Longfellow (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Falcon of Ser Federigo,
Longfellow (poem); The Gulls, in Breck, Wilderness Pets, pages 103, 161;
The House Wren, in Bird Stories from Burroughs; The Keeper of the Nest,
in Roberts, The Feet of the Furtive; The Screech Owl, in Bird Stories
from Burroughs; The Song Sparrow, in Bird Stories from Burroughs.