Children Books
Early Candlelight Stories
Grandma had come to spend the winter, and Bobby and Alice and Pink were watching her fix up her room. It was the guest room, and the children had always thought it a beautiful room, with its soft blue rug, wicker chairs, and pretty cretonne draperies. But Grandma had had all the furniture taken...
Chit-chat, or Short Tales in Short Words
Kate dwelt with her Aunt in a lone cot, in one of the most sweet dells of Wales.—Cliffs rose in rude grace round their home, and the sea, with its smooth beach, was to be seen in front,—a wild wood stood on one side, and a heath spread out not far off; on the edge of which a church, with its...
The House in the Wood
A short story for kids aged 6 to 9yrs: In a land far away, 'Moopah and Fabby' live on a hill with three cuddly and sometimes talkative toys. When the grandchildren, Chloé and younger brother Evan, come to visit it's not long before the children discover the little house in the wood and make...
Alice and Beatrice
ALICE and Beatrice were two little girls of about four and six years of age. They were staying with their grandmamma. Alice and Beatrice were very glad to be with their grandmamma, for she lived in the country and near the sea.
A Merry Scout
He didn’t belong to any patrol—he wasn’t a real scout at all, but it wasn’t Davy’s fault. He was only nine and a half, you see, and that meant two years and six months of waiting—oh, such long waiting it seemed to Davy—before he could wear the coveted arrow-head badge of the...
The Little Fig-tree Stories
There is a garden on a hill slope between the snows of the Sierra Nevada and the warm, rich valleys of the coast. It IS in that region Of Northern California where the pine belt and the fruit belt interlace. Both pine and fruit trees grow in that mountain garden, and there, in the new moon of...