Graded Poetry: Third Year

'Graded Poetry: Third Year' is a collection of poems chosen for younger readers. The selections are addressed primarily to the feeling for verbal beauty, the recognition of which in the mind of the child is fundamental to the plan of this work. The editors felt that the inclusion of critical or explanatory notes in these little books intended for elementary school children would be not only superfluous, but, in the degree in which critical comment drew the child's attention from the text, subversive of the desired result. The poems are the selection of educators Katherine D. Blake and Georgia Alexander.