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THE CHILD'S WORLD

THIRD READER

BY

HETTY S. BROWNE
Extension worker in rural school practice
Winthrop Normal and Industrial College
Rock Hill, S.C.

SARAH WITHERS
Principal Elementary Grades and Critic Teacher
Winthrop Normal and Industrial College

AND

W.K. TATE
Professor of Rural Education
George Peabody College for Teachers
Nashville, Tenn.

JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY
Richmond, Virginia

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TEACHERS' AIDS

Success with the Child's World Readers is in no wise dependenton the use of the chart, manual, or cards.

Modern teachers of reading, however, recognize the saving oftime and effort to be accomplished for both their pupils andthemselves by the use of cards, chart, and manual, and look to thepublisher to provide these accessories in convenient form and atmoderate cost.

The following aids are therefore offered in the belief that theywill make the work of the teacher, trained or untrained, moreeffective.

Child's World Reader Charts, $6.00
(10 beautiful charts in colors 27x37—20 lessons)

Child's World Manual, 75c
(Suggestions and outlines for first 5 grades)

Child's World Word Cards, $1.00
(129 cards—258 words in Primer vocabulary)

Child's World Phrase Cards, 75c
(48 cards—96 phrases)

Child's World Phonic Cards, 80c
(80 cards printed both sides)

JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY

Richmond, Virginia.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For permission to use copyrighted material the authors andpublishers express their indebtedness to The Independent for"Who Loves the Trees Best?" by Alice M. Douglas; to Oliver Herfordand the Century Company for "The Elf and the Dormouse"; to theAmerican Folklore Society for "How Brother Rabbit Fooled the Whaleand the Elephant," by Alcee Fortier; to the Outlook for"Making the Best of It," by Frances M. Fox, and "Winter Nights," byMary F. Butts; to Harper Brothers for "The Animals and the Mirror,"from Told by the Sand Man; to Rand McNally & Company for"Little Hope's Doll," from Stories of the Pilgrims, byMargaret Pumphrey; to Daughady & Company for "Squeaky and theScare Box," from Christmas Stories, by Georgene Faulkner; toD.C. Heath & Company for "The Little Cook's Reward," fromStories of the Old North State, by Mrs. L.A. McCorkle; toCharles Scribner's Sons for "A Good Play" and "Block City," byRobert Louis Stevenson, "The Glad New Year," from Rhymes andJingles, by Mary Mapes Dodge, "A Christmas Wish" and"Rock-a-by-Lady," by Eugene Field; to Houghton Mifflin Company forpermission to adapt selections from Hiawatha; to Doubleday,Page & Company for "The Sand Man," by Margaret Vandergrift,from The Posy Ring—Wiggin and Smith; to James A. Honeyfor "The Monkey's Fiddle," from South African Tales; to MaudBarnard for "Donal and Conal"; to Maud Barnard and Emilie Yonkerfor their versions of Epaminondas.

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Supplementary Historical Reading

Life of General Robert E. Lee
For Third and Fourth Grades

Life of General Thomas J. Jackson
For Third and Fourth Grades

Life of Washington
For Fourth and Fifth Grades

Life of General N.B. Forrest
For Fifth Grade

Life of General J.E.B. Stuart
For Fifth and Sixth Grades

Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia
For Fifth Grade

Tennessee History Stories
For Third and Fourth Grades

North Carolina History Stories