A Mother's List of Books for Children

Name: A Mother's List of Books for Children
Author: Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Arnold, Gertrude Weld

Children -- Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography

O columbine, open your folded wrapper,
  Where two twin turtle-doves dwell!
  O cuckoo-pint, toll me the purple clapper
  That hangs in your clear green bell!

  And show me your nest, with the young ones in it--
  I will not steal it away;
  I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet--
  I am seven times one to-day.
                                        JEAN INGELOW.


ANDREWS, JANE.
               The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children.
               Ginn. .50

     Miss Andrews's books were the pioneers of the great crowd of
     present-day nature-books for young children, and they still
     compare favorably in dignity and true interest with their
     successors.

     Amber, coal, the work of water, and seeds, are among the objects
     in regard to which Mother Nature told her stories.
                                        PRENTICE AND POWER.



STORIES                                                             (p. 57)

     We take it for granted that books for children belong to the easy
     play rather than to the hard work of life, and that they are an
     utter failure if they do not win their way by their own charms.
                                        SAMUEL OSGOOD.


HOPKINS, W.J.
               The Sandman: His Ship Stories.
               Page. 1.50

Simple descriptions of the building of the good ship _Industry_ and
her voyages to the far-away countries in the days long gone.


SÉGUR, S. (R.) DE.
               The Story of a Donkey.
               Heath. .20

A translation from the Comtesse de Ségur's Memoirs of a Donkey.
Neddy's account of his own life--and he was a good and faithful
beastie who had many adventures--has been a favorite with children for
years.


WARD, M.A. (A.) (Mrs. Humphry Ward).
               Milly and Olly.
               Doubleday. 1.20

This charming story, written many years ago and now revised, tells of
childish holidays spent in the Windemere region. Aunt Emma--a really,
truly old lady, who owns a fascinating parrot--proves a sort of modern
fairy-godmother to the little brother and sister. The atmosphere is
not too pronouncedly English to interfere in the least with our
children's enjoyment.


WHITE, E.O.                                                         (p. 58)
               A Little Girl of Long Ago.
               Houghton. 1.00

The experiences of a little New England girl of eighty years ago,
telling of her return voyage from Scotland, and of her happy life in
Boston and Springfield.


WHITE, E.O.
               When Molly was Six.
               Houghton. 1.00

A pleasant sunny story of the simple happenings in the every-day life
of a small girl.




_EIGHT YEARS OF AGE_                                                (p. 59)

  _And I wrote my happy songs,
  Every child may joy to hear._
                                        BLAKE.



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A Mother's List of Books for Children

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