Excerpt from Fairy Tale and Fable, Second Year: An Introduction to Literature and Art IN preparing this book for the second year, the following have been the guiding ideas: I. The selections should be of permanent value, and of interest to children. In determining those that should make up this book, not theory, but actual school-room experience, has been relied on. Such experience has shown that children in the second grade can read with interest and appreciation the matter found herein - fables, myths, fairy tales and simple rhymes. 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.