Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contained the best in children's literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progressed in difficulty through the different volumes. (Summary by Maria Therese)
Chapters
1 A Song of Drake's Men 1 min 2 The Enchanted Island 24 min 3 The Little-Man-As-Big-As-Your-Thumb-With-Mustaches-Seven-Miles-Long: A Russian Tale 18 min 4 The Squire's Bride 6 min 5 The Magic Horse: The Arabian Nights 27 min 6 Recollections of the Arabian Nights 1 min 7 The Story of the Talking Bird 47 min 8 The Three Sillies 8 min 9 The Sea Gull 2 min 10 Little Gulliver 18 min 11 The Merman 2 min 12 David Copperfield and Little Em'ly 27 min 13 The Sandpiper 2 min 14 The Switch Yard 2 min 15 The Steam Boat and the Locomotive 11 min 16 The Train 2 min 17 The Booms 31 min 18 Evening at the Farm 2 min 19 The Sugar Camp 11 min 20 Going A-Nutting 1 min 21 The Mock Turtle's Song 2 min 22 The Memoirs of a White Elephant 20 min 23 The Adventures of General Tom Thumb 32 min 24 The Plains' Call 1 min 25 A Night Ride in a Prairie Schooner 12 min 26 The Story of a Spider (Narbonne Lycosa) 9 min 27 The Gossamer Spider 1 min 28 Where Love Is, There God Is Also 24 min 29 The Knights of the Silver Shield 17 min 30 Meg Merrilies 1 min 31 Maggie Tulliver Goes to Live With the Gypsies 1 h 4 min 32 The Clocks of Rondaine 36 min 33 The Swineherd 10 min 34 Dear Sensibility 1 min 35 The Boy of Cadore 15 min 36 Venice 1 min 37 The Nuremberg Stove 55 min 38 A Cavalier Tune 1 min 39 A Secret Door 20 min 40 A Cavalier's Escape 3 min 41 The Adventures of Alexander Selkirk 53 min 42 Solitude 1 min 43 Young Midshipman David Farragut 19 min 44 Princess Nelly and the Seneca Chief 34 min 45 Hiawatha's Fasting: A Legend of the First Indian Corn 12 min 46 George Rogers Clark and the Conquest of the Northwest 12 min 47 The Boyhood of Robert Fulton 16 min 48 Gideon the Warrior 12 min 49 Daniel in the Lion's Den 6 min 50 The Adventures of Perseus: A Greek Myth 21 min 51 The Labors of Hercules: A Greek Myth 23 min 52 Thor's Journey to Jotun-Heim: A Norse Myth 14 min 53 Thor 1 min 54 The Stealing of I-Du'na: A Norse Myth 11 min 55 How the Goddess of Spring Came to Scoring 2 min
