Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Aldine Readers: Book One
The content of this book is the content of the happy life of childhood. Here are bees, butter?ies, and grass hoppers; here are birds - little birds in their nest; here are ?owers the dandelion, the daisy, the clover, the rose, the violet, the lily; here are pussy cats and pussy willows, mice and squirrels here are ducks, geese, and foxes; here are spring, fall, summer, and winter, and the delightful things that each season brings; here are the sun, the moon, the stars; here are rain, ice, and snow; here are the meadows, the green grass, and the ?ying leaves; here are fairies, and a giant! Here are the lullabies that dear mother sings to tired children; here are stories and events in which all these delightful companions of childhood take part. Children who read this book join the happy com pany joyfully live the scenes in imagination, and eagerly enact them in dramatization.
This remarkable content is the product of many years of study and work with children; it. Has stood the test of thousands of schoolrooms in city and country; it has metthe delighted approval of hundreds of thousands of boys and girls of all the nationalities that go to make up Americans.
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