| Record ID: |
3088561 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
265 pages, [4] leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
February 11, 2014
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| More creator details: |
written and compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner ; with pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith. |
| General note: |
Originally published: New York : Duffield, 1925. |
| Contents note: |
The spring maiden and the frost giants (Norse legend) / Eleanor L. Skinner -- How the bluebird was chosen herald / Jay T. Stocking -- General Jim / Walter Prichard Eaton -- The bulb-show / Eleanor Chambers -- The story of a little grain of wheat / May Byron -- Legend of trailing arbutus (Indian legend) / Eleanor L. Skinner -- A great family / Agnes McClelland Daulton -- How the birds came (Indian legend) / Ada M. Skinner -- Out of the nest / Maud Lindsay -- The story of blue wings / Mary Stewart -- The story of a beaver / William Davenport Hulbert -- Maple-sugaring / E.P. Powell -- The house wren / Neltje Blanchan -- The little brown wren / Clinton Scollard -- The tale of a dragon fly / Ethel C. Brown -- The cicada's story / Agnes McClelland Daulton -- Buz and Hum / Maurice Noel -- The home builders (a birdologue) / Arthur Guitermann -- A lyric of joy / Bliss Carman -- Spinners of silk / Waddington Sears -- How the spider makes its web / William C. Beebe -- Mother Spider / Frances Gillespy Wickes -- The first spider / Eleanor L. Skinner -- The tale of two tails (Greek legend) / Mary H. Wilson -- The fairy lamps / Ernest Thompson Seton -- Bird soldiers / Selected -- The pretending woodchuck / Carl S. Patton -- The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- How there came to be a katy-did / Patten Beard -- A turkey for the stuffing / Katherine Grace Hulbert -- The debut of Dan'l Webster / Isabel Gordon Curtis -- Ginger / Edward W. Frentz -- The pumpkin giant / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- The gay little king / Mary Stewart -- Johnny Appleseed / Josephine Scribner Gates -- The origin of Indian corn (Indian legend) / Eleanor L. Skinner -- Grandfather's willow whistle / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey -- Why autumn leaves are red / Emelyn Newcomb Partridge -- Jack Frost / Gabriel Setoun -- The Ice King (Indian legend) / Eleanor L. Skinner -- Sheltering wings / Harriet Louise Jerome -- The snowball that didn't melt / Jay T. Stocking -- Raggles, an Indian pony / Selected -- The bad little goblin's New Year / Mary Stewart -- Holly / Ada M. Marzials -- A barn-yard meeting / O.J. Stevenson -- A January thaw / Dallas Lore Sharp. |
| Access restriction: |
FOR USE IN OSBORNE COLLECTION ONLY. NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERLOAN. |
| Source/Donor: |
Pamela Oakley; Gift. |
| Contributor: |
Skinner, Eleanor L. (Eleanor Louise), 1872-
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| Contributor: |
Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, illustrator.
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