“Our most popular author of books for little girls has this year forsaken them, and apparently gone over to the boys, since her book is about a boy; ... but I have yet to see the little girl who would not be glad to read of such a boy as Johnny Blossom.... Although a genuine boy, he is a right-minded little fellow with earnest childlike spirit; and he can never be thoroughly content until he has had his mother’s full forgiveness when he has been naughty, or, if he has wronged any one, until he has made restitution.”
With confidence that such a child will be a good story-book friend for our children, and a favorite with them as he is among his little compatriots, I send Johnny Blossom forth to meet his welcome.
EMILIE POULSSON
Hopkinton, Mass., 1912
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | Johnny Blossom’s Fighting | [3] |
| II. | Crab-Fishing | [22] |
| III. | A Credit to the School | [33] |
| IV. | Aunt Grenertsen’s Apples | [43] |
| V. | The Red Buoy | [61] |
| VI. | Johnny Blossom’s Christmas Presents | [74] |
| VII. | A Present from Uncle Isaac | [86] |
| VIII. | Uncle Isaac’s Will | [97] |
| IX. | One Day in Vacation | [108] |
| X. | Tellef’s Grandmother | [120] |
| XI. | The Pet Horse | [130] |
| XII. | The Umbrella Adventure | [141] |
| XIII. | Johnny Blossom’s Birthday Party | [150] |
