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Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

Name: Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
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Author: Charles Madison Curry

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Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, by Charles Madison Curry. A freely-licensed classic (Project Gutenberg), reformatted for the Smithbook reader. Subjects: Children, Children's literature. Buy it once and read on any device. No subscription required.

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HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTH-WEST WIND, ESQUIRE In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was, in old time, a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It was surrounded, on all sides, by steep and rocky mountains, rising into peaks, which were always covered with snow, and from which a number of torrents descended in constant cataracts. One of these fell westward, over the face of a crag so high, that, when the sun had set

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Title: Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
Author: Charles Madison Curry
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Category: Educational & Technical · Children & Young Adult
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★★★☆☆ · car•••@example.com9/29/2026

Interesting but dated

The prose is beautiful but some parts feel very much of their time.

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Charles Madison Curry

United States, 1869–1955. Educator and anthologist of children’s literature.

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