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Title: Here and Now Story Book
Two- to seven-year-olds

Author: Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Illustrator: Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Release Date: October 28, 2008 [EBook #27075]

Language: English

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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

[Illustration: Logo - CLASSICS TO GROW ON]

_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

_All Rights Reserved_

_Printed in the United States of America_

CONTENTS

PAGE

FOREWORD: BY CAROLINE PRATT ix
INTRODUCTION 1
_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 TAKES A RIDE 73
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