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HERE AND NOW STORY BOOK
HERE AND NOW
STORY BOOK
TWO- TO SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS
Experimental Stories Written for the Children
of the City and Country School
(formerly the Play School)
and the Nursery School of the
Bureau of Educational Experiments.
by
LUCY SPRAGUE MITCHELL
Illustrated by
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., for
PARENTS’ INSTITUTE, Inc.
Publishers of Parents’ Magazine
and Approved Publications for Young People
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York
copyright, 1921,
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC.
copyright (renewal) 1948
BY LUCY SPRAGUE MITCHELL
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All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
page
Foreword: By Caroline Pratt ix
Content: Its educational and psychological basis 4
Form: Its patterns in words, sentences and stories 46
Stories:
Two-Year-Olds: Types to be adjusted to individual children. Content, personal activities, told in motor and sense terms. Form reduced to a succession of few simple patterns.
Marni Gets Dressed in the Morning 81
Three-Year-Olds: Content based on enumeration of familiar sense and motor associations and simple familiar chronological sequences. Some attempt to give opportunity for own contribution or for “motor enjoyment.”