CHILDREN'S CATALOG THIRD EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED A DICTIONARY CATALOG OF 4100 BOOKS WITH ANALYTICAL ENTRIES FOR 863 BOOKS COMPILED BY BASED ON CHILDREN'S CATALOG OF THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED BOOKS SUPPLEMENTED BY SELECTED LIBRARY LISTS AND BULLETINS NEW YORK THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY 1925 CHILDREN'S CATALOG First edition 1909. Compiled by Marion E. Potter Second edition 1917. Compiled by Corinne Bacon Third edition 1925. Compiled by Minnie Earl Sears PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BUHR/GRAD Gift of Tom Nicely 01/21/05 PREFACE This Catalog is based primarily on well selected library lists and is arranged under author, title and subject, with annotations under the author entry. In addition, it has analytical entries for 863 titles. In this, the third edition of the Children's Catalog, are included about 4100 titles of books which are recognized by experienced workers in children's libraries and schools as desirable books for children's departments of libraries. As the average library does not include this number of children's books, this allows for a margin of some choice on the part of individual libraries to meet local conditions. For the smaller libraries there is an edition of 1200 titles. From the beginning the Catalog has been based on carefully selected library lists and so represents the choice of specialists best fitted for this work. The list of bulletins, catalogs, etc. on which the various editions have been based is given on another page. The first edition of the Catalog, containing 3000 books, was compiled by Marion E. Potter in 1909, and was based on 24 selected lists. The second edition, compiled by Corinne Bacon in 1917, contained 3500 books and was based on 54 ists. In the present edition of 4100 books 35 additional lists were used, making a total of 89. The Catalog is planned to meet two needs of a library: (1) Use as a catalog, (2) Use as a buying list, showing the best titles for public and school libraries to buy in building up collections of children's books. For this latter purpose the information about publishers, prices and editions has been gone over very carefully. For the former purpose much analytical work has been done. The Catalog is dictionary in form, with author, title and subject entries in one alphabet, thus following the form of the previous edition familiar to its many users. The fullest information, including annotations, is given under the author entry. In general, subject headings follow those given in Miss Mann's "Subject Headings for Juvenile Catalogs" but, as in the earlier edition, the material on U. S. history has been kept together. For a few new subjects not covered by this list and for some changes necessitated by the passage of time the "List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries," edited by M. E. Sears, has been used. Where there has been a choice in the form of the author's name, the simpler form has been used as being better adapted to a catalog to be used by children. This new edition would have been impossible without the valuable cooperation given throughout by children's librarians. One of the first questions the editor had to consider was the elimination of such titles included in the last edition and its supplements as are no longer thought desirable. In this work of discarding, the editor was greatly assisted by Miss Alice I. Hazeltine, now of the St. Louis Public Library, Miss Alice M. Jordan, of the Boston Public Library, Miss Effie L. Power, of the Cleveland Public Library, and Mrs. Mary E. S. Root, who checked both Catalog and Supplements to indicate omissions. The St. Louis Public Library sent us a list of titles dropped from its children's department and the editor had access to a somewhat similar list at the New York Public Library. In discarding we tried to take two points of view-that of the old library having the books on the shelves and perhaps still finding them useful, and that of the comparatively new library which still has most of its books to buy. In addition to checking the old Catalog, the librarians mentioned have gone over 1500 additional titles, principally publications of 1921-24. Miss Nina C. Brotherton, of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and Miss Mary E. Eastwood, of the New York State Library, have also gone over these new lists. Miss Clara W. Hunt has sent us the annual lists of books added to the Children's department of the Brooklyn Public Library, together with the "One Thousand Books for Boys and Girls, 1923" and "Another Thousand Books for Boys and Girls, 1924." Miss Anne Carroll Moore has gone over lists of recent books with the editor and has given advice about individual titles. The editor has also had important help from specialists in different fields, and the fact that the books in scientific and technical lines, such as chemistry, electricity, radio, etc. have the approval of both librarians and specialists adds materially to the value of the Catalog. Mr. Donald Hendry, Pratt Institute Free Library, Mr. E. H. McClelland, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Mr. M. Meister, Training School for Teachers, New York City, checked various scientific and technical lists, and suggested new titles. Miss Erna Grassmuck, Director of Geography in the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction, checked the lists of geography and geographical readers. Miss Miriam S. Draper of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, kindly went over the lists on her specialties. Two sources of valuable aid, new since the last edition of the Catalog, should be mentioned. They are: (1) the reviews of children's books by A. C. Moore appearing in the Bookman since November 1918, which fill a great need as authoritative evaluation of children's books, and (2) the page edited by Miss Moore in the New York Herald-Tribune each Sunday since autumn 1924. After considering votes for and against the inclusion of any title, the editor necessarily made the ultimate decision in accordance with the votes, and responsibility for the final selection does not rest individually with those who have cooperated with us. The Catalog includes American publications almost exclusively. A few notable English publications of which no American edition exists have been included and a very few French and German titles have been carried over from the earlier edition. Occasionally, where the American edition of a desirable book is out of print, an available English edition has been substituted. About 600 new titles, not counting new editions of books previously included, have been added. These cover principally the years of 1921-24 but some old titles were added in order to fill gaps. Because of the difficulty of getting at once the final authoritative opinion as to the value of children's books, it seemed wiser to be conservative about the inclusion of the newest books whose value is not yet established. In this respect Miss Hunt's advice in her "Library Work with Children" to "wait for the opinions of competent specialists in library work with children" has been followed. Most of the outstanding titles of 1924 have been included and a special effort was made to include the desirable new editions of older books issued recently. In some cases, where it has been practicable, new editions appearing early in 1925 have been added as the work was going through the press. A feature of the Catalog which has always been especially valuable is the extensive analysis of books. Children's librarians who were consulted emphasized the importance of continuing this feature. In this edition 863 titles, making 942 volumes, have been analyzed. Of the 600 new titles added in this edition 153 have been analyzed. In this analysis special stress has been placed on bringing out material on topics which are decidedly "live" subjects in children's work. Thus, books of games and occupations, plays on special subjects, books on industries and inventions, nature books, and recent scientific material have all been fully analyzed. This feature of minute analyzing is carried out to an extent which would be impossible in the card catalog. To teachers and normal school students, as well as librarians, this analysis will be an invaluable key to the resources of the books at their disposal, making available hitherto unsuspected material. Where a new edition has been substituted for the one analyzed in the 1917 Catalog, the paging given for the analytics is that of the new edition. This should be borne in mind by libraries still using the old edition of such a book. It is assumed that for fairy tales, myths and legends Miss Eastman's Index will be used. Dates of publications are given in all classes except fiction and mythology. The latest copyright date is generally used. Under the author entries will also be found the publisher and price. Especial attention has been given to the question of price and editions, and great pains have been taken to insure accuracy on this point. Notwithstanding all of this, it is realized that some inaccuracies will be found. Since the edition of 1917, war and post-war conditions have caused an enormous number of changes in prices and publishers. To insure accuracy and up-to-dateness the information about prices and editions has been secured whenever possible by direct correspondence with the publishers and it is hoped that results justify the amount of work involved. A number of out of print books from the previous edition have been included, where they are still useful and desirable from the library point of view. Libraries having on their shelves such out of print books will doubtless be glad to have them included in the Catalog. Furthermore, if including them here helps to create a demand for them, it is hoped that the publishers may reprint some, at least, of the desirable children's books now out of print. All such out of print books have been plainly marked "o.p. 1924" in the author entry, and the price in such cases is that given in the 1917 Catalog and has been left in as some indication of the relative price of the book. The books have been graded as in the last edition, the grades being given in parenthesis in both author and subject entries. While the grading is necessarily only approximate, users of the Catalog feel that it is a useful feature which should be continued. In many cases the grades have been taken from library lists (such as the Newark "Books for Boys and Girls" and the lists issued by various state library commissions.) In the matter of grading Siri Andrews, a member of our staff, has been of great assistance because of her years of experience in children's work in libraries. Annotations are given for all of the new titles added and for most of the old titles from the former edition. These descriptive annotations have, as a rule, |