Children's book of patriotic stories: The spirit of '76

In the Same Series
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES Edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THANKSGIVING STORIES Edited by Asa Don Dickinson
THE SPIRIT OF ’76
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF PATRIOTIC STORIES
The Spirit of ’76
EDITED BY ASA DON DICKINSON AND HELEN WINSLOW DICKINSON
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Garden CityNew York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1918
Copyright, 1917, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
The Publishers desire to acknowledge the kindness of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, the Houghton Mifflin Company, Harper & Brothers, the Perry Mason Company, the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, Little, Brown & Company, George W. Jacobs & Company, Silver, Burdett & Company, and others, who have granted permission to reproduce herein selections from works bearing their copyright.
Here is a book of Patriotic Stories for children, to stand beside the similar collections of Christmas Stories and Thanksgiving Stories, which have already been welcomed by many parents, librarians, and teachers. Those seeking material appropriate to Washington’s Birthday and the Fourth of July will find here a goodly store, ready to their hands. The brief descriptive note at the head of each story will help the reader to choose one well suited to his audience. And the Table of Contents, as in the previous collections, indicates which tales will best please older, and which younger children.
The Editors hope that a book of stirring tales like these—not history, but stories such as children love, that yet ring true in spirit—will serve to help, though ever so little, the Cause of Liberty and will aid in keeping aglow in the hearts of our young people the ardent spark which inspired our forefathers—the Spirit of ’76.