Author: Marion Florence Lansing

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780267943111

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Excerpt from Rhymes and Stories Rhymes and Slade: is the first volume of an intended series under the general title, The Open Road Library of Juvenile Literature. The object of the series is to provide a consecutive course of reading which shall embrace the lines of children's interests and the requirement for their mental equip ment. Fairy and folk lore, myth and legend, history and story, exploration and invention, nature and sci ence, travel and biography, will be given each its share. Half the present volume has been given to famil iar rhymes, many of which have met the ear of the child before he was ready for reading. 80 extended is the store that we have been obliged to omit many which might well be included in such a collection, but every kind is well represented. For longer stories we have selected the simplest kinds of nonsense tales, such as Simple Simon, and the cumulative stories, like The Old Woman and Her Pig. With these have been combined the easiest drolls, or comic anecdotes, represented by Lazy Jack, and such nursery tales as The Three Bears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Rhymes and Stories (Classic Reprint) written by Marion Florence Lansing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rhymes and Stories Rhymes and Slade: is the first volume of an intended series under the general title, The Open Road Library of Juvenile Literature. The object of the series is to provide a consecutive course of reading which shall embrace the lines of children's interests and the requirement for their mental equip ment. Fairy and folk lore, myth and legend, history and story, exploration and invention, nature and sci ence, travel and biography, will be given each its share. Half the present volume has been given to famil iar rhymes, many of which have met the ear of the child before he was ready for reading. 80 extended is the store that we have been obliged to omit many which might well be included in such a collection, but every kind is well represented. For longer stories we have selected the simplest kinds of nonsense tales, such as Simple Simon, and the cumulative stories, like The Old Woman and Her Pig. With these have been combined the easiest drolls, or comic anecdotes, represented by Lazy Jack, and such nursery tales as The Three Bears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.