My Book House--Story Time

by Miller, Olive Beaupré

• ISBN13: 9780486499079
• ISBN10: 0486499073
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-02-20
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Filled with vibrant full-color illustrations, this edition of Story Timefrom the acclaimed My Book House series presents a charming selection of more than 75 tales from the world's folklore and literature. Contents include Aesop's "Belling the Cat," Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," and Tolstoy's "Uncle Mitya's Horse," plus stories and verse by Whitman, Blake, Sandburg, and dozens of others.

Author Biography

Olive Beaupré Miller (1883–1968) and her husband, Harry Miller, formed a company known as The Book House for Children. Starting in 1920 with My Book House, In the Nursery, their innovative publications feature stories of literary value for young readers.

Table of Contents

Across the Fields, Anatole France

An American Miner's Song, "Giant" O'Neill

Answer to a Child's Question, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At Christmas Play and Make Good Cheer, Thomas Tusser

Awake, O North Wind, Song of Solomon

The Bee, the Mouse and the Bum-Clock, An Irish Tale

Behold the Fig Tree, Jesus of Nazareth

A Belgian Morning, Emile Cammaerts

Belling the Cat, Adapted from Aesop

The Birds' Convention, Aristophanes

A Bohemian Evening, A Czechoslovakian Nursery Rhyme

The Bow that Bridges Heaven, Christina G. Rossetti

A Boy in the Island of Bali

Building the Bridge, Adapted from a Russian Folk Song

The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, Adapted from Aesop

Come, Little Leaves, George Cooper

Dame Wiggins of Lee, Mary E. Sharpe and John Ruskin

The Dancing Monkeys, Adapted from Aesop

Dawlish Fair, John Keats

The Donkey and the Lap Dog, Adapted from Aesop

An Explanation of the Grasshopper, Vachel Lindsay

A German Evening, Wilhelm Schiller

The Gingerbread Man, A New England Tale

The Goldfinch, Odell Shepard

Grasshopper Green

The Hare and the Tortoise, Adapted from Aesop

Heap on More Wood, Sir Walter Scott

How the Finch Got Her Colors, A Flemish Legend

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jack Frost, Gabriel Setoun

Johnny and the Three Goats, A Norse Tale

Krazy Kat, John Alden Carpenter

Late, Josephine Preston Peabody

Laughing Song, William Blake

The Lion and the Mouse, Adapted from Aesop

The Little Dog Waltz, A Story of the Musician, Chopin

The Little Engine that Could

The Little Gray Pony, Maud Lindsay

Little Gustava, Celia Thaxter

Little Hansworst, A Story of the Dutch Puppet Show

The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings, Retold by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat, An English Folk Tale

The Magpie's Nest, An English Folk Tale

Merry Christmas

Moon, So Round and Yellow, Mathias Barr

My Beloved Is Gone Down into His Garden, Song of Solomon

The Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore

Noah's Ark, Retold from The Bible

Nonsense Rhymes, Edward Lear

Nurse's Song, William Blake

Old Shellover, Walter De La Mare

Ole Shut-Eyes, The Sandman, Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Edward Lear

Paper Boats, Rabindranath Tagore

Please Give Me a Ride on Your Back, Edward Lear

The Poor Old Lady, Translated by Rafael Pombo

The Purple Cow, Gelett Burgess

Reen-Reen-Reeny-Croak-Frog, Translated by Rafael Pombo

The Rooster and the Sultan, A Hungarian Fairy Tale

The Sheep and the Pig That Made a Home, A Norse Folk Tale

Shingebiss, A Chippewa Indian Tale

Snow, Mary Mapes Dodge

A Song for Easter, Olive Beaupre Miller

The Song of the Bee, Old Jingle

The Song of the Flea, From the Opera on Faust by Hector Berlioz

Spring Songs from the Bible

The Star, Jane Taylor

The Strange Adventure of the Baron Munchausen

The Sugar-Plum Tree, Eugene Field

A Swedish Evening, Gustaf Froding

The Tale of Nutcracker, Basis of the Ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter

The Teddy Bears' Picnic, From the Musical Composition by John W. Bratton

Ten Little Indians

There Was an Old Man with a Beard, Edward Lear

The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking, An East Indian Fable

The Twilight, Madison Cawein

Two Birds and Their Nest, Walt Whitman

Two Children, From the German of Heinrich Heine (Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

The Two Crabs, Adapted from Aesop

The Ugly Duckling, Retold from Hans Christian Andersen

Uncle Mitya's House, Leo N. Tolstoy

The Village of Cream Puffs, Carl Sandburg

Wee Robin's Christmas Song, Attributed to Robert Burns (from a Scotch Folk Tale)

Whisky Frisky

Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth, Jesus of Nazareth

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Eugene Field