Spencer G. Shaw Papers, 1949-2006

Scope and Content: "King Thrushbeard," from Grimm's fairy tales; "The Fairies," from Perrault's fairy tales.

Scope and Content: "Three Golden Oranges."

Scope and Content: "The New Pioneer," Dorothy C. Fisher.

Scope and Content: "A Cruse of Oil" from Told Under the Christmas Tree (Hannukah); "The Festival of St. Nicholas," from Hans Brinker - Mary M. Dodge.

Scope and Content: "Mince Pie and Mistletoe" (poetry), by P. McGinty.

Scope and Content: "The Twelve Months in the Enchanted Book," by Dalglish; "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," from Grimm's fairy tales.

Scope and Content: "The Case of the Sensational Secret," from Homer Price, by Robert McCloskey.

Scope and Content: "Saint Valentine," from Holiday Round Up, by L. Pannell; "The Shepherd's Nosegay," from The Shepherd's Nosegay, retold by Parker Filmore; "Excerpts in re. to Lincoln," Gettysburg Address, poem by Mildred Meigs.

Scope and Content: Chapter 2 from The Adventures of Tom Sawer, "Glorious White Washer"; "Robin Hood and Little John."

Scope and Content: "The Squire's Bride," "The Emperor's New Clothes," Andersen.

Scope and Content: Donna Fabrizo, Gr. 5, Sch. #5, Cedarhurst, LI, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower - Godden; Ian Brecher, Gr. 5, Sch. #2, Inwood, LI, The Cricket in Times Square- Selden; librarian: Mrs. Ada Silberg, Peninsula P.L.

Scope and Content: Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown.

Scope and Content: "Snow White and Rose Red", from Blue Fairy Book, collected and edited by Andrew Lang.

Scope and Content: "David and Goliath," chapter 1; "Polyphemus the Cyclops," from The Odyssey of Homer, retold by Barbara Leonie Picard.

Scope and Content: "The Swineherd" and "What the Good Man Does Is Always Right" - Andersen.

Scope and Content: "Books," from This Year: Next Year, by Walter de la Mare and Harold Jones; "The Enchanted Shirt," from This Singing World, by John Hay; Diane Auerbach, Gr. 6, Barnum Woods School, The Middle Button, by Kathryn Worth; Daniel Thompson, Gr. 5, Sacred Heart School, Onion John, by Joseph Krumgold; librarian: Miss Laura Seacord, East Meadow P.L.

Scope and Content: "The Selfish Giant," from The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.

Scope and Content: Vicki Block, Gr. 5, Island Park Radcliffe Road School, The Saturdays, by Elizabeth Enright; David Sanders, Gr. 4, Island Park Radcliffe Road School, James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl; library director: Mrs. Helen Williams, Island Park P.L.

"Apple Seed John," by Lydia Maria Childs, from One Thousand Poems for Children, selected and arranged by Elizabeth H. Seachrist.

Scope and Content: "My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World," by Becky Reyher.

Scope and Content: "The Cat That Walked by Himself," from Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling; "Cat and Mouse in Partnership," from Grimm's fairy tales; "Washington and His Cat," retold by Joseph Jacobs.

Scope and Content: "The Poor Turkey Girl."

Scope and Content: "Teeny Tiny" and "Rapunzel."

Scope and Content: "How the Rhinocerous Got His Skin," "The Three Sillies."

Scope and Content: "The Bell of Atri."

Scope and Content: "How the Good Gifts Were Used by Two."

Scope and Content: "Reuben Lights a Torch," by Sol Klein; "Mrs. Santa Claus's Christmas Present," by Alice Morris.

Scope and Content: "The Youngest Shepherd," by Hal Borland; "A Visit from St. Nicholas," by Clement C. Moore.

Scope and Content: "Hansel and Gretel."

Scope and Content: "Puss in Boots."

Scope and Content: "The Skillful Huntsman," "The Three Jolly Huntsmen."

Scope and Content: "Nathan Cathecart's Thrilling Midnight Adventure," "Four Men of God."

Scope and Content: "Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale," "North Star Shining," by Hildegarde Swift.

Scope and Content: "The Hundred Dresses," by Eleanor Estes.

Scope and Content: "Song of the Swallows," by Lee Politi.

Scope and Content: "Hans Clodhopper" - Andersen; "Origin of Spring," from Greek Myths, by Coolidge.

Scope and Content: "The Easter Eggs," - Cather.

Scope and Content: Allen Unger, Gr. 7, Roslyn Junior High School, Buffalo and Beaver, by Steven Meader; Allyn Ostrow, Gr. 6, East Hills School, Roslyn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Samuel Clemens; librarian: Mrs. Dorothy Wood, Roslyn (Bryant) Library.

Scope and Content: "Pinocchio's Adventures in Playtime Land."

Scope and Content: Lisa Kugler, Lee Road School, Wantagh, L.I., Dancing Star: the Story of Anna Pavlova, by Gladys Malvern; Michael Gallagher, Abbey Lane School, Levittown, L.I., The Slave Who Freed Haiti: the Story of Touissant L'Ouverture, by Katherine Scherman; librarian: Miss Nancy Anderson, Levittown, P.L.

Scope and Content: Ballad - "Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons"; chapter 2 - "Dusting Is Fun," from All of a Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor.

Scope and Content: Michele Cohen, Life with Father, Day; Justin Ansell, Kidnapped, R.L. Stevenson.

Scope and Content: "Little Freddie with his Fiddle," "Unexpected Good Fortune."

Scope and Content: Robin Pomerantz, Gr. 4, Heaven to Betsy, M. Lovelace; Howard Brooks, The FBI, Q. Reynolds.

Scope and Content: "An Honest Life, A Good Heart and a Merry Mind."

Scope and Content: "Rosa-Too-Little," by Sue Felt.

Scope and Content: "The Old Woman and her Pig," "The Prince with Donkey's Ears."

Scope and Content: "The Tinker and the Ghost," "The Strange Visitor."

Scope and Content: "Story that had No End," "Cricket and the Ant," "Hare That Defeated the Lion."

Scope and Content: "The Flea."

Scope and Content: "Peter Humbug and the White Cat," "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address."

Scope and Content: "Tale of Clever Gretel."

Scope and Content: "Balder and the Mistletoe."

Scope and Content: "The Little Juggler."

Scope and Content: "Twelve Months," "Clever Gretel."

Scope and Content: Chapter One: "Down the Rabbit Hole," from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; "The Walrus and the Carpenter."

Scope and Content: Amos Fortune, Free Man, by E. Yates, chapters 1 and 10.

Scope and Content: "Beside the Golden Door," "Damon and Pythias."

Scope and Content: "Snow White," "Why Bear Is Stumpy Tailed."

Scope and Content: Karen Morgenstern, Gr. 5, The Secret Garden, by Frances Burnett Lippincott; Robin di Maglio, Gr.7, It's Like This, Cat, by Emily Neville.

Scope and Content: Chapter 3, "Out With the Goats," from Heidi, by Johanna Spyri.

Scope and Content: "The Selfish Giant," "The Passover Story."

Scope and Content: "Princess on the Glass Hill."

Scope and Content: Jacqueline Pucciarelli, Gr. 5, Miss Osborn the Mop, by Wilson Gage; William Riddick, Gr. 6, Bristle Face, by Zachary Ball.

Scope and Content: "Little John Goes to the Fair," from Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle.

Scope and Content: Melissa Mather, Gr. 7, The Rock and the Willow, by Mildred Lee; John Tebbel, Gr. 7,Rascal, by Sterling North.

Scope and Content: "Prologue" and "Hiawatha's Sailing," from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Longfellow.

Scope and Content: Julie Euster, Gr. 5, The Good Master, by Kate Seredy; Mark Albert, Gr. 6, Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt; librarian: Mrs. Ruth Jervis, Forest Lake School.

Scope and Content: "Angelo, the Naughty One"; interview with guest librarians: Janet Hill (English), B. Barham (Arkansas), S. Glazer (Brooklyn).

Scope and Content: "All in the Morning Early," by Sorche NicLeodhas.

Scope and Content: "The Story That Had No End," "St. Francis and the Wolf."

Scope and Content: "Theseus," Excerpt - "Call it Courage."

Scope and Content: "A Garden We Planted Together," "Crow Boy."

Scope and Content: "Childe Rowland," "The Big Toe."

Scope and Content: "Tale of Peter Rabbit," "Lazy Harry" - Grimm's fairy tales.

Scope and Content: "Mondabmin," "Ulysses and the Sirens" - Illiad and Odyssey.

Scope and Content: "Pilgrim Thanksgiving," by Wilma Hays.

Scope and Content: "David Comes Home," from Told Under the Christmas Tree.

Scope and Content: "The Fir Tree."

Scope and Content: "The Music Box," "Silent Night, Holy Night."

Scope and Content: "The Little Engine that Could," "The Twelve Months."

Scope and Content: "The Little Engine that Could," "Steadfast Tin Soldier."

Scope and Content: "The Golden Bird."

Scope and Content: Chapter 1, Call of the Wild, by Jack London.

Scope and Content: "Tattercoats," "The Emperor's New Clothes."

Scope and Content: "The Tinderbox," "The Crow and the Pitcher," "Belling the Cat."

Scope and Content: Chapter 6, "Heads Up, Eyes Front," from Mary Jane, by Dorothy Sterling.

Scope and Content: "Miss Flora McFlimsey's Valentine," "The Spindle, the Shuttle and the Needle."

Scope and Content: "The Happy Prince," by Oscar Wilde.

Scope and Content: "King Thrushbeard" - Grimm's fairy tales, "The Squire's Bride - East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon."

Scope and Content: "March of the Shepherd," "A Bell for Ursli."

Scope and Content: "The Wave," by Margaret Hodges.

Scope and Content: "How Boots Befooled the King."

Scope and Content: Chapters 9, 10, 11 of The Adventures of Pinnocchio.

Scope and Content: "The Golden Crane" - Yamaguchi.

Scope and Content: "The Selfish Giant."

Scope and Content: "Princess and Jose."

Scope and Content: "My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World" - Reyher.

Scope and Content: "Snow White and Rose Red."

Scope and Content: Chapters 6 and 7, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Scope and Content: "Owl and the Pussycat," 5th and 6th grades, Frederick Stubbs School, Wilmington, Delaware; librarians: Miss Crossley, Miss Albrecht.

Scope and Content: "Sleeping Beauty," "The Princess and the Pea."

Scope and Content: Chatper 1 of Rufus M, by Eleanor Estes.

Scope and Content: "The Legend of St. Christopher," adapted and retold by Spencer Shaw.

Scope and Content: "The Pancake," "How Six Travelled Through the World."

Scope and Content: "The Poor Turkey Girl," "Origin of the Pleiades."

Scope and Content: "Mousekin's Golden House," "The Little Red Bogie-Man."

Scope and Content: "The Teacher Comes to Dinner," in Lucky Days for Johnny, by I. Smith.

Scope and Content: "Mousekin's Golden House," "The Hare and the Hedgehog."

Scope and Content: "Thanksgiving" from Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott.

Scope and Content: "The Old Woman and the Tramp."

Scope and Content: "The Festival of St. Nicholas."

Scope and Content: "The Tailor of Gloucester" - B. Potter.

Scope and Content: Chapter from A Christmas Carol, by Dickens; "A Cruse of Oil."

Scope and Content: "A Certain Small Shepherd" - Caudill.

Scope and Content: "The Three Spinning Fairies," "Peter the Goatherd."

Scope and Content: "The Darning Needle," "The Pot and the Candles."

Scope and Content: "Dick Whittington and His Cat."

Scope and Content: Chapters 18, 19, "Winter in Dorfli" and "The Winter Continues," from Heidi, by Johanna Spyri.

Scope and Content: "The Beginning of the Armadillos."

Scope and Content: Selections from Paul Bunyan: "Babe the Blue Ox," and "The Winter of the Blue Snow."

Scope and Content: "Robin Hood and Allan-a Dale," "Biographies - Donglan, Anderson, Price, DuBois."

Scope and Content: "My Song Yankee Doodle."

Scope and Content: "The Apple of Contentment."

Scope and Content: "Pandora, The First Woman."

Scope and Content: "Song of the Swallows."

Scope and Content: "Tom Tit Tot."

Scope and Content: "Thumbelina."

Scope and Content: "Little Burnt Face," "Tick Running and a Heartbreak," from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Scope and Content: "The Easter Eggs."

Scope and Content: "Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar."

Scope and Content: "Bremer Town Musicians," "Bell of Atri."

Scope and Content: "The Case of the Sensational Scent."

Scope and Content: "My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World."

Scope and Content: "The Simpleton and His Little Black Hen."

Scope and Content: "The Blue Rose."

Scope and Content: "The Story of David and Goliath."

Scope and Content: "Snow White."

Scope and Content: "The Wonderful Knapsack."

Scope and Content: Guest Reviewers: Martha Rice, W. Trespar Clark H.S., East Meadow; William Donald, Freeport H.S.; librarian: Mrs. Helen Wilmott, Freeport H.S.

Scope and Content: "Doctor Know-It-All."

Scope and Content: "The Most Precious Gift," "The Wise King and the Little Bee."

Scope and Content: "The Skillful Huntsman," "Three Jovial Huntsmen," "The Bald Huntsman."

Scope and Content: "The Fox and the Geese," "The Golden Goose."

Scope and Content: "The King of Cats," "Three Magic Oranges."

Scope and Content: Chapter 2, "Faith" in The Apple and the Arrow, by Mary and Conrad Buff.

Scope and Content: "The Cricket and the Ant," "To Your Good Health."

Scope and Content: "Clever Gretel," "Stone Soup."

Scope and Content: Chapters 1-3 from The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain.

Scope and Content: "How the Good Gifts Were Used by Two."

Scope and Content: "Zlateh the Goat."

Scope and Content: "The Cat of Doverfell," "Little Gottlieb," "The Elves and the Shoemaker."

Scope and Content: "The Shepherd's Pipe," "The Legend of Baboushka."

Scope and Content: "The Twelve Months."

Scope and Content: "Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Know All."

Scope and Content: "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Clever Tailor."

Scope and Content: The Plain Princess, by Phyllis McGinley, part I.

Scope and Content: The Plain Princess, by Phyllis McGinley, part II.

Scope and Content: "North Star Shining Bright," by Hildegarde Swift.

Scope and Content: "Snegourka," "How Little Metty, the Shepherdess, Married a King."

Scope and Content: "My Song, Yankee Doodle,"

Scope and Content: "How Little Metty, the Shepherdess, Married a King."

Scope and Content: "Clever Manka."

Scope and Content: "The Emperor's New Clothes."

Scope and Content: Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, by Evaline Ness.

Scope and Content: "The Egg Tree."

Scope and Content: "The Stubborn Sillies."

Scope and Content: "Origin of the Seasons."

Scope and Content: With Florence Friedlander, children's librarian, Shelter Rock Public Library.

Scope and Content: "History of Tom Thumb," "Why Pigs Have Curly Tails."

Scope and Content: "Rustem and Sohrab."

Scope and Content: "Three Billy Goats Gruff," "Princess and Jose."

Scope and Content: Excerpt from I, Momolu.

Scope and Content: "The First Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor."

Scope and Content: "Hiawatha's Fasting," from The Song of Hiawatha, by Longfellow.

Scope and Content: "Sail On, O My People."

Scope and Content: "Travels of a Fox," "The Cat and Mouse in Partnership."

Scope and Content: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," with music.

Scope and Content: "The Stonecutter," "The Wishing Ring," "The Three Wishes."

Scope and Content: "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The First Christmas Tree."

Scope and Content: "The Shepherd," "Seeking the Way," from This Way to Christmas, by Ruth Sawyer.

Scope and Content: "Flora McFlimsey's Christmas Eve," "Steadfast Tin Soldier."

Scope and Content: "Riquet of the Tuft."

Scope and Content: "The Wind and the Sun."

Scope and Content: "The Unknown Scout," "The Story of Scarface."

Scope and Content: "Why Wisdom Is Found Everywere," "Hat Shaking Dance and Other Tales."

Scope and Content: "Snow White and Rose Red."

Scope and Content: "The Beginning of Armadillos."

Scope and Content: "Urashima Taro and the Princess of the Sea."

Scope and Content: "The Princess on the Glass Hill."

Scope and Content: "Murdoch's Rath," "The Liar from the Land of Erin."

Scope and Content: Thomas Helling, Polk Street School, and Bernard Delia, St. Catherine's of Sienna; Dorothy Gunzenhauser, librarian; Henry Reed, Inc., by Keith Robertson; From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg.

Scope and Content: Chapter 20, "News from Distant Friends," in Heidi, by Johanna Spyri.

Scope and Content: "Mama Has Her Hands Full."

Scope and Content: "King Robert of Sicely."

Scope and Content: "That's Once," "The Silver Jug."

Scope and Content: With Mrs. Ricki Lubov, children's librarian.

Scope and Content: "Waukewa's Eagle."

Scope and Content: "Theseus."

Scope and Content: "Urashima Taro and the Princess of the Sea," "The Princess and the Pea."

Scope and Content: "The Passing of Arthur."

Two copies.

Scope and Content: "Little Red Riding Hood" ["Little Red Cap"].