The Emerald Story Book

The Emerald Story Book - Stories and legends of spring, nature and Easter

There is no richer theme for childrens stories than the miracle of Spring. The selections in The Emerald Story Book aim to serve the young readers interest in three ways. Some of the myths and legends are interesting or amusing because flowers, insects, or birds are presented as personalities and emphasise human qualities or feelings. Some of the stories and poems contribute to the childs store of knowledge by attracting his attention to some fact, beauty, or blessing in nature which may have escaped his notice. Still others make an appeal by suggesting or affirming the abiding hope symbolised in the thought, See the land her Easter keeping. The childs heart is filled with the joy of spring,with the rapture expressed in the thrushs song which Mrs. Ewing describes. Fresh water and green woods, ambrosial sunshine and sun-flecked shade, chattering brooks[vi] and rustling leaves, glade and sward and dell. Lichens and cool mosses, feathered ferns and flowers. Green leaves! Green leaves! Joy! Joy! The editors thanks are due to Mrs. Katherine Tynan-Hinckson for permission to use her poem, Sheep and Lambs; Miss Lucy Wheelock for her story, A Little Acorn; to Mr. Bliss Carman for A Lyric of Joy; Mr. Clinton Scollard for The Little Brown Wren; Mr. James Whitcomb Riley for the quotation from Mister Hop-Toad; Mrs. Agnes McClelland Daulton and Rand, McNally & Co., for two stories, A Great Family and Jolly Little Tars; Mr. Warren J. Brier for Mr. Pine and Mr. Maple; Mrs. Margaret Deland for her poem, Jonquils; Miss Helen Keller for Edith and the Bees; Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson for A Childs Easter; and Mr. Alfred Noyes for his poem Little Boy Blue; and to the following publishers who have granted permission to reprint selections in this collection from works bearing their copyright: to G. P. Putnams[vii] Sons for The Selfish Giant, by Oscar Wilde; to Houghton Mifflin Co., for the poem, Talking in Their Sleep, by Edith M. Thomas; to the Atlantic Monthly and Silver Burdette Company for The Maple Seed; to A. Flanagan and Co., of Chicago, for The Promised Plant, from Childs Christ-Tales, by Andrea Hofer Proudfoot, and Pussy Willow, from Little Peoples Doings and Misdoings by Kate Louise Brown; to Doubleday, Page & Co., for The House Wren, from Birds Every Child Should Know, by Neltje Blanchan, and Briar Rose from The Fairy Ring, edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith; to Grace Duffield Godwin for An Eastern Legend, from Houjon Songs, published by Sherman, French & Co.; to Henry Holt & Co., for the selection, Buz and Hum, by Maurice Nol; The Churchman for In the Garden: An Easter Prelude; Fleming H. Revell Co., for When Thou Comest Unto Thy Kingdom; to The Sunday School Times for the Story of Blue-Wings and The Wind, a Helper; to The Youths Companion[viii] and Miss Helen Keller for the selection, The Spirit of Easter; to Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Co., and Mr. Paul R. Reynolds, for the selection from The Childrens Bluebird, by Maurice Maeterlinck. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 64307
Author: Skinner, Ada M. (Ada Maria)
Release Date: Jan 16, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966