20–15344
Sixty-six stories by such authors as Louisa M. Alcott, Julia Darrow Cowles, Abbie Farwell Brown, Josephine Scribner Gates, Mary Stewart, Patten Beard, Thornton Burgess, and others. They are grouped as: Home tales; The story garden; Cheerful stories; and Tales and legends beautiful. There are eight pictures by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
+ Booklist 17:127 D ’20
“Filled with seventy or more of the best short stories for children that have been written in recent years.”
+ Ind 104:376 D 11 ’20 100w
“The stories have been edited with tact and put into a style easy of comprehension by the simplest minds.”
+ Lit D p95 D 4 ’20 240w
“The pictures are characteristically charming.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 40w
SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE, comps. and eds. Garnet story book. (Jewel ser.) *$1.75 (3c) Duffield