Chicago, Aug. 4—“Little Women,” Louise M. Alcott’s story of childhood life in New England, heads the list of 25 “best books” for country school children in the first to eighth grades as balloted on by the American Library association and the National Educational Association it was announced today.
Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” comes second on the two-foot shelf with Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” third, Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer” fourth, and Robert Louis Stevenson is the only author to appear twice on the list. He comes in again with the “Child’s Garden of Verse.”
Other books which appear on the joint list are: Nicholay, Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln; Kipling, Jungle Book; Anderson, Fairy Tales; Aesop’s Fables; Pile, Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; Lamb, Tales from Shakespear; Malory, Boys’ King Arthur; Van Loon, Story of Mankind; Stevenson, Burton E., Home of Verse for All; Irving, Rip Van Winkle; Mother Goose; Young Folks; Dickens, Christmas Carol; Dodge, Hans Brinker; Hagedorn, Boys’ Life of Theodore Roosevelt; Hawthorne, Wonder Book; Sexton Wild Animals I Have Known; Spyri, The Arabian Nights.
Three books selected by the teachers but not included on the combined list were Riis, The Making of An American; Baldwin, Fifth Famous Stories; Eggleston, Stories of Great Americans.
Three books selected by librarians and not included in the joint list were Dickens, David Copperfield; Grimm, Household Stories; Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson. “Teachers are making to get this list as an aid in making their selection of books, it is indicated by the inquiries that have been coming in from all parts of the United States to the Chicago headquarters to officers of the American Library Association, the announcement said.
From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Saturday, Aug. 5, 1922
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