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Content: Its educational and psychological basis Form: Its patterns in words, sentences and stories 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 MARNI GETS DRESSED IN THE MORNING 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." THE ROOM WITH THE WINDOW LOOKING OUT ON THE GARDEN THE MANY HORSE STABLE MY KITTY THE ROOSTER AND THE HENS THE LITTLE HEN AND THE ROOSTER Jingles: MY HORSE, OLD DAN HORSIE GOES JOG-A-JOG AUTO, AUTO Four- and Five-Year-Olds: Content, simple relationships between familiar moving objects, stressing particularly the idea of use. Emphasis on sound. Attempt to make verse patterns carry the significant points in the narrative. HOW SPOT FOUND A HOME THE DINNER HORSES THE GROCERY MAN THE JOURNEY PEDRO'S FEET HOW THE ENGINE LEARNED THE KNOWING SONG THE FOG BOAT STORY HAMMER, SAW, AND PLANE THE ELEPHANT HOW THE ANIMALS MOVE THE SEA-GULL THE FARMER TRIES TO SLEEP WONDERFUL-COW-THAT-NEVER-WAS THINGS THAT LOVED THE LAKE HOW THE SINGING WATER GOT TO THE TUB THE CHILDREN'S NEW DRESSES OLD DAN GETS THE COAL Six- and Seven-Year-Olds: Content, relationships further removed from the personal and immediate and extended to include social significance of simple familiar facts. Longer-span pattern which has become organic with beginning, middle and end. THE SUBWAY CAR BORIS TAKES A WALK AND FINDS MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF TRAINS BORIS WALKS EVERY WAY IN NEW YORK SPEED FIVE LITTLE BABIES ONCE THE BARN WAS FULL OF HAY THE WIND THE LEAF STORY A LOCOMOTIVE MOON, MOON AUTOMOBILE SONG SILLY WILL EBEN'S COWS THE SKY SCRAPER

"Here and Now Story Book" by Lucy Sprague Mitchell is a delightful collection of enchanting stories crafted to captivate the hearts and minds of young children aged two to seven. Through whimsical tales of imagination, adventure, and friendship, Mitchell sparks the imagination of young readers and provides valuable life lessons in an accessible and engaging format. With colorful illustrations and simple language, this storybook serves as a wonderful tool for parents and educators to instill a love of reading and storytelling in young minds.