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Six short fairy tales personify health through a benevolent fairy and a small companion named Cho-Cho who encounter threats from Ignorance, represented as an ugly witch, and other antagonists. Each tale dramatizes wholesome habits—eating nutritious foods such as oatmeal, sleeping in fresh air, and playing happily—and shows how teachers, children, and figures like Knowledge counteract harmful influences to restore the fairy’s garden and rebuild her house. Practical health lessons are woven into playful magic, allegory, and simple problem-solving, emphasizing education, communal effort, and everyday practices that promote child wellbeing.

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Title: Cho-Cho and the Health Fairy

Six stories

Author: Eleanor Glendower Griffith

Illustrator: Jessie Gillespie

Release date: June 16, 2024 [eBook #73840]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The MacMillan Company, 1919

Credits: Richard Tonsing, Charlene Taylor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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CHO-CHO
and
THE HEALTH FAIRY

Six Stories by
ELEANOR GLENDOWER GRIFFITH
Illustrated by
JESSIE GILLESPIE
HEALTH IN EDUCATION
EDUCATION IN HEALTH
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
All rights reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1919
CHILD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
OF AMERICA
DEDICATED TO
THE FAIRY GODMOTHER OF
CHILD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
OF AMERICA
Mrs. Frederick Peterson