Excerpt from Easy Stories<br><br>MY intention in writing these little stories was to furnish material which little children, learning to read, could master without assistance.<br><br>All who are familiar with children know how pleased they are when they can read a whole story for themselves.<br><br>The language used in such stories must be very simple, and the thought must be within the com prehension of the child.<br><br>When a child understands perfectly what he reads, the expression takes care of itself.<br><br>It seems to me that the tendency nowadays is to give the child classical literature too soon. I believe in good literature; I believe it should be used in our schools; but I believe also that a little child is a little child and should be allowed the literary food adapted to his condition.<br><br>The book is intended to be used in the last half of the second school year, or the first half of the third year.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.