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• Physical Description: 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
• Publisher: New York : Abingdon Press, ©1962.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The fire bringer / Mary Austin -- The mushroom / Emily Dickinson -- The first strawberries / Corydon Bell -- Twinkling bugs / Anonymous -- How stars and fireflies were made / Rhoda Power -- How the Bazilian beetles got their gorgeous coats / Elise Spicer Eells -- Why the brierbush quarreled with the beasts / Ernest Seton Thompson -- The penalty of greatness / Leclaire G. Alger -- The absent-minded tailor / Monica Shannon -- A charm for spring flowers / Rachel Field -- Why the bear sleeps all winter / Ellen C. Babbitt -- How the foxes became red / Charles E. Gillham -- Why the woodchuck comes out in midwinter / Mabel Powers -- How the beaver lost the hair on his tail / William R. Palmer -- The hare's lip / Johan Hart -- The squirrel / Mary Howitt -- The chipmunk who chattered too much / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey -- The guinea pig's tail / Margaret Baker -- Why crabs are flat / Lim Sian-Tek -- Why the tortoise has a round back / Idella Purnell and John M. Weatherwax -- The fly / Walter de la Mare -- One guess / Robert Frost -- Tithonus, the grasshopper / [Frances Jenkins] Olcott [from] the Homeric hymns and other sources -- The bees / Hastings' Nursery songs -- The lazy hornet / Idella Purnell and John M. Weatherwax -- To the lady-bird / Caroline Bowles Southey -- Why ants have small waists / Berta Metzger -- A fuzzy fellow without feet / Emily Dickinson -- How the spider was made / Rhoda Power -- How Ma-ui snared the Sun and made him go more slowly across the heavens / Padraic Coulum -- How the moon and the stars came to be / Elizabeth Hough Sechrist -- Silver / Walter de la Mare -- How the first rainbow was made / Anne B. Fisher -- Names / Leclaire G. Alger -- Legend of the arbutus / Mary Catherine Judd -- The origin of Indian pipes / Corydon Bell -- How dandelions were made / Rhoda Power -- The first buttercups / Hazel Gertrude Kinscella -- The legend of the narcissus / Lim Sian-Tek -- Forget-Me-Not! / Frances Jenkins Olcott -- The mignonette fairy / adapted [by Frances Jenkins] Olcott [from the story by] Katherine M. Beals -- How the water lily came / Mary Catherine Judd -- The goldenrod / Frank Dempster Sherman -- Indian legends of shrubs in our garden / Vernon Quinn -- The blackbird / Humbert Wolfe -- How a bird turned the world upside down / Mabel Powers -- The last word of a bluebird : as told to a child / Robert Frost -- Why the chickadee goes crazy once a year / Ernest Thompson Seton -- The king of the birds / Padraic Colum -- Courage / Leclaire G. Alger -- How the robin's breast became red / Flora J. Cooke -- Goldfinches / Elisabeth Scollard -- Why the woodpecker has a long nose / Idella Purnell and John M. Weatherwax -- How little stork lost his tail / Hope Brister Watkins -- Salute to the trees / Henry Van Dyke -- How maple sugar came / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey -- Pumpkin trees and walnut vines / Alice Greer Kelsey -- Why the evergreen trees never lose their leaves / Florence Holbrook -- November's party / Henry T. Coates -- The scarlet maple / Mary I. Curtis -- Trees / Sara Coleridge -- Why the sea moans / Elise Spicer Eells -- The rain, wind, and snow / Rhyme and reason -- The hundred-headed daffodil / Frances Jenkins Olcott -- Spring flowers / Harry Behn -- Summer rain / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Something told the wild geese ; Snow in the city / Rachel Field -- The buckwheat / Hans Christian Andersen -- A thunderstorm / Emily Dickinson -- How the queen of the sky gave gifts to men / E.M. Wilmot-Buxton -- The hare in the moon / Farmer [from a] Buddhist legend -- All things beautiful / John Keble.

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