Child's Calendar Beautiful (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Child's Calendar Beautiful (Classic Reprint) written by R. Katharine Beeson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Child's Calendar Beautiful No one collection could possibly contain everyone's favorite. Space limitations make it necessary to exclude much that one feels should be included. It is hoped, however, that there is sufficient material and variety to permit some liberty of choice to teachers and to the children themselves. It has been the rule to offer nothingthat was not in itself good, and then to hold to that which the children liked. In distributing the selections through the different months of the year, the Psalms of King David naturally took their place in November, the Thanksgiving month; the patriotic and heroic poems and hymns fell into our Country's anniversary months - February, the birth-month of so many of our great men; May, the Memorial month; and July the birth-month of the Nation. The nature poems, of course, belong of right to the months whose beauties they celebrate. Other poems are placed where room for them could best be found and should be so used as to serve the convenience of those using them, regardless of their place in the course. The beginning of the first conscious great epoch in a child's life is marked by his first day at school. His year then, begins with September, rathen than January, and so this Calendar of poem and prose begins with the month of the golden-rod and aster, rather than with New Year's Day. It is my privilege to express my debt to President Roosevelt for permission to include extracts from his Inaugural Address. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.