Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
It is unfortunately true that the terms education and culture are not synonymous. Too often we find that the children in our public schools, while possessed of the one, are signally lacking in the other. This is a state of things that cannot be remedied by teaching mere facts....
Have you ever heard the wind go "Yoooooo"? 'Tis a pitiful sound to hear; It seems to chill you through and through With a strange and speechless fear. 'Tis the voice of the wind...
4. Chapter 4Sing, children, sing, And the lily censers swing; Sing that life and joy are waking and that Death no more is king. Sing the happy, happy tumult of the slowly bright'ning Spring...
5. Chapter 5How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung, Where the whitest lilies blow, Where the freshest berries grow, Where the ground-nut trails its vine, Where the woo...
3. Chapter 3And the brown thrush keeps singing, "A nest do you see, And five eggs hid by me in the juniper tree? Don't meddle! Don't touch! little girl, little boy, Or the world will lose s...
6. Chapter 6Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, Grapple them to th...
1. Chapter 1It is unfortunately true that the terms education and culture are not synonymous. Too often we find that the children in our public schools, while possessed of the one, are sign...
7. Chapter 7"Help one another," the snowflakes said, As they cuddled down in their fleecy bed, "One of us here would not be felt, One of us here would quickly melt; But I'll help you and yo...