Length6h 47m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Stories and legends of spring, nature and Easter. 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[vi] and rustling leaves, glade and sward and dell. Lichens and cool mosses, feathered ferns and flowers. Green leaves! Green leaves! Joy! Joy!""
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, Fantasy
Length6 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 27, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
26AMONG THE TREE-TOPS
2APRIL
27ROBIN’S CAROL
3THE SPRING-MAIDEN AND THE FROST GIANTS
28HOW THE BIRDS CAME
4HOW THE BLUEBIRD WAS CHOSEN HERALD
29HOW THE BIRDS LEARNED TO BUILD NESTS
5THE SPRINGTIME
30OUT OF THE NEST.
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6THE SELFISH GIANT
31THE STORY OF BLUE-WINGS
7THE PROMISED PLANT
32AN EASTERN LEGEND
8BRIER ROSE
33THE HOUSE WREN
9PICCIOLA
34THE CHILDREN OF WIND AND THE CLAN OF PEACE A CHRIST LEGEND
10ST. FRANCIS, THE LITTLE BEDESMAN OF CHRIST
35IN MEADOW AND POND
11PROSERPINA AND KING PLUTO
36A SPRING LILT
12THE WONDER—A PARABLE
37HOW BUTTERFLIES CAME
13NATURE STORIES AND LEGENDS
38WHITE BUTTERFLIES
14GREEN THINGS GROWING
39THE BUTTERFLY
15THE STORY OF A LITTLE GRAIN OF WHEAT
40THE WIND, A HELPER
16THE LITTLE ACORN
41THE SPRINGING TREE: WILLOWS
17THE STORY OF TWO LITTLE SEEDS
42PUSSY WILLOW
18HOW THE FLOWERS CAME
43THE DRAGON FLY
19THE LEGEND OF TRAILING ARBUTUS
44THE CICADA’S STORY
20THE FAIRY FLOWER
45EDITH AND THE BEES
21THE SNOWDROP
46THE LITTLE TADPOLE
22WHAT THE DANDELION TOLD
47MISTER HOP-TOAD
23A GREAT FAMILY
48BUZ AND HUM
24THE BIRTH OF THE VIOLET
49THE STORY WITHOUT AN END
25A LYRIC OF JOY
50LEGEND OF THE FORGET-ME-NOT
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