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A father tells a series of short fairy tales to his young daughter, each a concise fable or whimsical adventure. The pieces range from animal tales and enchanted objects to small human episodes, using personification and playful logic to explore gratitude, pride, cleverness, generosity, and the consequences of vanity or mischief. Episodes favor clear, accessible plots and imaginative details—travels, transformations, tests of character—and conclude with straightforward moral or emotional resolutions. The collection reads as bedside stories aimed at early listeners, balancing humor, wonder, and gentle instruction.

[Contents]

Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts

By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT

Author of “Dogtown,” “Citizen Bird,” etc.

With illustrations by Albert Blashfield

Cloth 12mo $1.50

“The more of such books as these, the better for the children. One Tommy-Anne is worth a whole shelf of the average juvenile literature.”

The Critic.

“A better gift book for the little folks there could not be than this charming work.… Genius of this rare order is decidedly one of Mrs. Wright’s gifts, and this is proven by the fascinated interest that gray-haired readers cannot help feeling in the book.”

The American, Philadelphia.

“The child who reads will be charmed while he is instructed, and led on to make new discoveries for himself.”—The Nation.

Wabeno, the Magician

The sequel to “Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts”

By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT

Author of “Four-footed Americans,” etc.

With illustrations by Joseph M. Gleeson

Cloth 12mo $1.50

“Only positive genius could weave such subtle webs of fancy, poetical in warp and woof, yet practical in knowledge. The book is interestingly illustrated.”—The Chautauquan. [392]

Aunt Jimmy’s Will

By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT

Author of “Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts,” etc., etc.

With illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn

Cloth 12mo $1.20 net

“ ‘Aunt Jimmy’s Will’ is, I think, one of the most engaging stories for young girls that has appeared this year …; it is, in fact, the best-constructed narrative Mrs. Wright has produced, and Bird O’More is her most captivating heroine.”—The Toronto Globe.

“It’s such a charmingly natural little story about natural folks and by no means unnatural doings that there is little doubt of its making many friends among young people—among older ones, too, for that matter, as this is one of the stories for young folk that readers of maturer years like well to take a dip into … a very interesting and entertaining drama of common folk.”—The Boston Transcript.

The Dream Fox Story Book

By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT

Author of “Citizen Bird,” “Birdcraft,” etc.

With eighty drawings by Oliver Herford

Cloth Small Quarto $1.50 net

“There is fun enough on every page to make the reader wish he had the dream habit himself.”—The Dial.

“One of the most entertaining efforts of the season.”—The Argonaut. [393]

An Island in the Air

A story of singular adventures in the Mesa Country

By ERNEST INGERSOLL

Author of “Wild Neighbors,” “The Ice Queen,” etc.

Illustrated with a frontispiece in colors, full-page half-tones, and many drawings in the text.

Cloth 12mo $1.50

A story of real adventure on the real frontier,—the Far West of fifty years ago, when life was large and free, with game for the shooting; with bears and wolves and cougars; with Indians and soldiers and emigrant trains, and all the picturesque furniture of a land of promise for healthy sport. It was neither sport nor romance, however, that these young people—boys and girls—were in search of down there on the borders of the Navajo country—they came because they had to. Nothing was further from their minds than to get separated from their elders by a strange yet perfectly natural accident, and to find themselves marooned upon a desert island in a sea of blue air, and then to get away by aid of a lot of Mokis, dead and alive. But so it happened; and being brave, resourceful, and jolly, the youngsters met their adventures halfway, acquitted themselves with credit, and so escaped from difficulties which might have daunted older heads and hands.

The Phœnix and the Carpet

By E. NESBIT

With illustrations by H. R. Millar

Cloth 12mo $1.50

E. Nesbit is one of the most delightful writers for children of the present day. The five children in “The Phœnix and the Carpet” are as real and genuine and delightful as any to be met in modern literature. Unrolling a strip of carpet bought by mother, they found a curious egg. Robert dropped it into the fire! it blazed up, cracked, and out of it came a flame-colored bird which announced to the children that it was the Phœnix. The carpet, it further told them, was the famous magic carpet, that takes you anywhere you wish. Immediately begin adventures. Under the guidance of the genial and informing Phœnix, the children cross to France on the wishing carpet. Later, the cook wishes them in the South Sea Islands, where she reigns as queen; at another time they have adventures in India. Through it all, they are healthy, lively, full of fun, good humor, and ideas.

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