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The Emerald Story Book

There is no richer theme for children’s stories than the miracle of Spring. The selections in “The Emerald Story Book” aim to serve the young reader’s interest in three ways. Some of the myths and legends are interesting or amusing because flowers, insects, or birds are presented as personalities and emphasise human qualities or feelings. Some of the stories and poems contribute to the child’s store of knowledge by attracting his attention to some fact, beauty, or blessing in nature which may have escaped his notice. Still others make an appeal by suggesting or affirming the abiding hope symbolised in the thought, “See the land her Easter keeping.”

The child’s heart is filled with the joy of spring,—with the rapture expressed in the thrush’s song which Mrs. Ewing describes. “Fresh water and green woods, ambrosial sunshine and sun-flecked shade, chattering brooks and rustling leaves, glade and sward and dell. Lichens and cool mosses, feathered ferns and flowers. Green leaves! Green leaves! Joy! Joy!” (From the Introduction)

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April by Robert Browning (thood)
The Spring-Maiden and the Frost Giants (Norse Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner (Rita Boutros)
How the Bluebird Was Chosen Herald by Jay T. Stocking (Rita Boutros)
The Springtime by Eugene Field (Andrea Atwood)
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde (Caro Davy)
The Promised Plant by Andrea Hofer Proudfoot (BettyB)
Brier Rose by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Kim Lamb)
Picciola (Adapted) by St. Saintine (Cindy Price)
St. Francis, the Little Bedesman of Christ by William Canton (Kim Lamb)
Prosperpina and King Pluto (Greek Myth) by Eleanor L. Skinner (Kim Lamb)
The Wonder--A Parable (From ''Parables'') by Friedrich Adolph Krummacher (Kim Lamb)
Green Things Growing (Poem) by Dinah Mulock Craik (Caro Davy)
The Story of a Little Grain of Wheat by May Byron (Tanya Bessler)
The Little Acorn by Lucy Wheelock (TallyTiger)
The Story of Two Little Seeds by George MacDonald (Caro Davy)
How the Flowers Came (Selected) by Jay T. Stocking (whisperintoearth)
The Legend of the Trailing Arbutus (Indian Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner (Andrea Atwood)
The Fairy Flower (adapted from ''Norwood'') by Henry Ward Beecher (BettyB)
The Snowdrop by Hans Christian Andersen (Nichalia Schwartz)
What the Dandelion Told by Clara Maetzel (Oxalis)
Verse by James Russell Lowell (mleigh)
A Great Family by Agnes McClelland Daulton (Cindy Price)
The Birth of the Violet (Legend) by Ada M. Skinner (Kayty Harrelson)
A Lyric of Joy (Poem) by Bliss Carman (Caro Davy)
Robin's Carol (From ''Angler's Reveille'') by Henry van Dyke (czandra)
How the Birds Came (Indian Legend) by Ada M. Skinner (Kelly Van Roy)
How the Birds Learned to Build Nests by James Baldwin (Caro Davy)
Out of the Nest by Maud Lindsay (David Friedman)
The Story of Blue-Wings by Mary Stewart (Stacy Dugan-Wilcox)
An Eastern Legend (Poem) by Grace Duffield Goodwin (mleigh)
The House Wren by Neltji Blanchan (mleigh)
The Children of Wind and the Clan of Peace (A Christ-Legend) (Adapted) by Fiona MacLeod (czandra)
A Spring Lilt (Poem) by Unknown (Caro Davy)
How Butterflies Came by Hans Christian Andersen (Caro Davy)
White Butterflies (Poem) by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Cindy Price)
The Butterfly by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (Cindy Price)
The Wind, a Helper by Mary Stewart (Kelly Van Roy)
The Springing Tree: Willows by Mrs. Dyson (Kelly Van Roy)
Pussy Willow by Kate Louise Brown (Caro Davy)
The Dragon Fly by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (czandra)
The Cicada's Story (Selected) by Agnes McClelland Daulton (Caro Davy)
Edith and the Bees by Helen Keller (ColleenR)
The Little Tadpoles (From Stories in ''Prose and Verse'') by Katharine Pyle (Stacy Dugan-Wilcox)
Mr. Hop-Toad (Poem) by James Whitcomb Riley (Stacy Dugan-Wilcox)
Buz and Hum by Maurice Noël (Tarik Alyahya)
The Story Without an End translated by Sarah Austin from the German of A. Carove (Jack Kali)
Legend of the Forget-Me-Not by Ada M. Skinner (Caro Davy)
Four-Leaf Clover (Poem) by Ella Higginson (Caro Davy)
Jolly Little Tars by Agnes McClelland Daulton (Rita Boutros)
Mr. Maple and Mr. Pine by Warren Judson Brier (Kayty Harrelson)
Old English Verse (Caro Davy)
The Easter Rabbit (German Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner (czandra)
The Boy Who Discovered the Spring by Raymond MacDonald Alden (Kayty Harrelson)
Sheep and Lambs (Poem) by Katharine Tynan (mleigh)
Robin Redbreast--A Christ-Legend (Adapted) (From Christ-Legends) by Selma Lagerlöf (Alex Kameleon)
The Maple Seed from The Atlantic Monthly (Caro Davy)
Why the Ivy Is Always Green by Madge Bingham (Caro Davy)
Jonquils (Poem) by Margaret Deland (Caro Davy)
When Thou Comest Into Thy Kingdom by Mary Stewart (Alex Kameleon)
The Legend of the Easter Lily by Ada M. Skinner (Dulaney High Key Club)
Song by Henry Neville Maughan (Dulaney High Key Club)
In the Garden: An Easter Prelude by W. M. L. Jay (Dulaney High Key Club)
''Spirit'' and ''Life'' by Margaret Emma Ditto (Wayne Cooke)
A Child's Easter (Poem) by Annie Trumbull Slosson (Dulaney High Key Club)
The Spirit of Easter by Helen Keller (Dulaney High Key Club)
There Are No Dead by Maurice Maeterlinck, adapted from ''The Bluebird" by Madame Maeterlinck (Phil Schempf)
Little Boy Blue (Poem) by Alfred Noyes (Dulaney High Key Club)
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