Chapter I: 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
HAMMER, SAW, AND PLANE 177
THE ELEPHANT 185
HOW THE ANIMALS MOVE 189
THE SEA-GULL 192
THE FARMER TRIES TO SLEEP 197
WONDERFUL-COW-THAT-NEVER-WAS 203
THINGS THAT LOVED THE LAKE 211
HOW THE SINGING WATER GOT TO THE TUB 219
THE CHILDREN'S NEW DRESSES 229
OLD DAN GETS THE COAL 237

_Six- and Seven-Year-Olds_: Content, relationships
further removed from the personal and immediate
and extended to include social significance of
simple familiar facts. Longer-span pattern which
has become organic with beginning, middle and end.
THE SUBWAY CAR 241
BORIS TAKES A WALK AND FINDS MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRAINS 251
BORIS WALKS EVERY WAY IN NEW YORK 267
SPEED 281
FIVE LITTLE BABIES 291
ONCE THE BARN WAS FULL OF HAY 299
THE WIND 309
THE LEAF STORY 315
A LOCOMOTIVE 320
MOON, MOON 322
AUTOMOBILE SONG 323
SILLY WILL 325
EBEN'S COWS 340
THE SKY SCRAPER 353