
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
36A SPRING LILT
2APRIL
37HOW BUTTERFLIES CAME
3THE SPRING-MAIDEN AND THE FROST GIANTS
38WHITE BUTTERFLIES
4HOW THE BLUEBIRD WAS CHOSEN HERALD
39THE BUTTERFLY
5THE SPRINGTIME
40THE WIND, A HELPER
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6THE SELFISH GIANT
41THE SPRINGING TREE: WILLOWS
7THE PROMISED PLANT
42PUSSY WILLOW
8BRIER ROSE
43THE DRAGON FLY
9PICCIOLA
44THE CICADA’S STORY
10ST. FRANCIS, THE LITTLE BEDESMAN OF CHRIST
45EDITH AND THE BEES
11PROSERPINA AND KING PLUTO
46THE LITTLE TADPOLE
12THE WONDER—A PARABLE
47MISTER HOP-TOAD
13NATURE STORIES AND LEGENDS
48BUZ AND HUM
14GREEN THINGS GROWING
49THE STORY WITHOUT AN END
15THE STORY OF A LITTLE GRAIN OF WHEAT
50LEGEND OF THE FORGET-ME-NOT
16THE LITTLE ACORN
51FOUR-LEAF CLOVER
17THE STORY OF TWO LITTLE SEEDS
52JOLLY LITTLE TARS
18HOW THE FLOWERS CAME
53MR. MAPLE AND MR. PINE
19THE LEGEND OF TRAILING ARBUTUS
54A GARDEN OF EASTER STORIES
20THE FAIRY FLOWER
55THE EASTER RABBIT
21THE SNOWDROP
56THE BOY WHO DISCOVERED THE SPRING
22WHAT THE DANDELION TOLD
57SHEEP AND LAMBS
23A GREAT FAMILY
58ROBIN REDBREAST—A CHRIST LEGEND
24THE BIRTH OF THE VIOLET
59THE MAPLE SEED
25A LYRIC OF JOY
60WHY THE IVY IS ALWAYS GREEN
26AMONG THE TREE-TOPS
61JONQUILS
27ROBIN’S CAROL
62WHEN THOU COMEST INTO THY KINGDOM
28HOW THE BIRDS CAME
63THE LEGEND OF THE EASTER LILY
29HOW THE BIRDS LEARNED TO BUILD NESTS
64SONG
30OUT OF THE NEST.
65IN THE GARDEN AN EASTER PRELUDE
31THE STORY OF BLUE-WINGS
66“SPIRIT” AND “LIFE”
32AN EASTERN LEGEND
67A CHILD’S EASTER
33THE HOUSE WREN
68THE SPIRIT OF EASTER
34THE CHILDREN OF WIND AND THE CLAN OF PEACE A CHRIST LEGEND
69THERE ARE NO DEAD
35IN MEADOW AND POND
70LITTLE BOY BLUE