Publisher's Synopsis
Elmer Boyd Smith (1860-1943) was an American author. He was born in St. John, New Brunswick, raised in Boston and educated in France. He worked for the Riverside Press in Boston then he travelled to Paris where he studied drawings and paintings. In 1896 he wrote and illustrated his first work entitled My Village. In 1898 he returned to Boston where he illustrated books for Houghton Mifflin. His other works include: The Story of Pocahontas and Captain Smith (1906), The Story of Noah's Ark (1909), The Chicken World (1910), The Farm Book (1910), The Seashore Book (1912), The Railroad Book (1913), The Early Life of Mr. Man Before Noah (1914) and The Story of Our Country (1920).
