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The Emerald Story Book

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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 and rustling leaves, glade and sward and dell. Lichens and cool mosses, feathered ferns and flowers. Green leaves! Green leaves! Joy! Joy!” (From the Introduction) (7 hr 2 min)

Chapters

April by Robert Browning

1:16

Read by thood

The Spring-Maiden and the Frost Giants (Norse Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner

14:54

Read by Rita Boutros

How the Bluebird Was Chosen Herald by Jay T. Stocking

22:47

Read by Rita Boutros

The Springtime by Eugene Field

11:47

Read by Andrea Atwood

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

10:44

Read by Caro Davy

The Promised Plant by Andrea Hofer Proudfoot

4:00

Read by BettyB

Brier Rose by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith

8:09

Read by Kim Lamb

Picciola (Adapted) by St. Saintine

7:19

Read by Cindy Price

St. Francis, the Little Bedesman of Christ by William Canton

4:54

Read by Kim Lamb

Prosperpina and King Pluto (Greek Myth) by Eleanor L. Skinner

13:36

Read by Kim Lamb

The Wonder--A Parable (From ''Parables'') by Friedrich Adolph Krummacher

4:00

Read by Kim Lamb

Green Things Growing (Poem) by Dinah Mulock Craik

1:19

Read by Caro Davy

The Story of a Little Grain of Wheat by May Byron

15:03

Read by Tanya Bessler

The Little Acorn by Lucy Wheelock

5:07

Read by TallyTiger

The Story of Two Little Seeds by George MacDonald

4:13

Read by Caro Davy

How the Flowers Came (Selected) by Jay T. Stocking

7:26

Read by whisperintoearth

The Legend of the Trailing Arbutus (Indian Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner

5:51

Read by Andrea Atwood

The Fairy Flower (adapted from ''Norwood'') by Henry Ward Beecher

6:48

Read by BettyB

The Snowdrop by Hans Christian Andersen

4:54

Read by Nichalia Schwartz

What the Dandelion Told by Clara Maetzel

5:42

Read by Oxalis

Verse by James Russell Lowell

0:43

Read by mleigh

A Great Family by Agnes McClelland Daulton

5:13

Read by Cindy Price

The Birth of the Violet (Legend) by Ada M. Skinner

5:15

Read by Kayty Harrelson

A Lyric of Joy (Poem) by Bliss Carman

0:59

Read by Caro Davy

Robin's Carol (From ''Angler's Reveille'') by Henry van Dyke

1:08

Read by czandra

How the Birds Came (Indian Legend) by Ada M. Skinner

4:18

Read by Kelly Van Roy

How the Birds Learned to Build Nests by James Baldwin

4:58

Read by Caro Davy

Out of the Nest by Maud Lindsay

6:50

Read by David Friedman

The Story of Blue-Wings by Mary Stewart

6:41

Read by Stacy Dugan-Wilcox

An Eastern Legend (Poem) by Grace Duffield Goodwin

1:47

Read by mleigh

The House Wren by Neltji Blanchan

7:27

Read by mleigh

The Children of Wind and the Clan of Peace (A Christ-Legend) (Adapted) by Fiona…

5:38

Read by czandra

A Spring Lilt (Poem) by Unknown

1:02

Read by Caro Davy

How Butterflies Came by Hans Christian Andersen

1:56

Read by Caro Davy

White Butterflies (Poem) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

0:56

Read by Cindy Price

The Butterfly by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

12:23

Read by Cindy Price

The Wind, a Helper by Mary Stewart

8:17

Read by Kelly Van Roy

The Springing Tree: Willows by Mrs. Dyson

8:56

Read by Kelly Van Roy

Pussy Willow by Kate Louise Brown

2:51

Read by Caro Davy

The Dragon Fly by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

9:29

Read by czandra

The Cicada's Story (Selected) by Agnes McClelland Daulton

7:23

Read by Caro Davy

Edith and the Bees by Helen Keller

4:22

Read by ColleenR

The Little Tadpoles (From Stories in ''Prose and Verse'') by Katharine Pyle

8:12

Read by Stacy Dugan-Wilcox

Mr. Hop-Toad (Poem) by James Whitcomb Riley

0:47

Read by Stacy Dugan-Wilcox

Buz and Hum by Maurice Noël

9:22

Read by Tarik Alyahya

The Story Without an End translated by Sarah Austin from the German of A. Carove

9:11

Read by Jack Kali

Legend of the Forget-Me-Not by Ada M. Skinner

3:30

Read by Caro Davy

Four-Leaf Clover (Poem) by Ella Higginson

1:35

Read by Caro Davy

Jolly Little Tars by Agnes McClelland Daulton

22:03

Read by Rita Boutros

Mr. Maple and Mr. Pine by Warren Judson Brier

8:39

Read by Kayty Harrelson

Old English Verse

0:54

Read by Caro Davy

The Easter Rabbit (German Legend) by Eleanor L. Skinner

9:14

Read by czandra

The Boy Who Discovered the Spring by Raymond MacDonald Alden

10:46

Read by Kayty Harrelson

Sheep and Lambs (Poem) by Katharine Tynan

1:32

Read by mleigh

Robin Redbreast--A Christ-Legend (Adapted) (From Christ-Legends) by Selma Lager…

9:57

Read by Alex Kameleon

The Maple Seed from The Atlantic Monthly

5:35

Read by Caro Davy

Why the Ivy Is Always Green by Madge Bingham

8:27

Read by Caro Davy

Jonquils (Poem) by Margaret Deland

1:15

Read by Caro Davy

When Thou Comest Into Thy Kingdom by Mary Stewart

16:42

Read by Alex Kameleon

The Legend of the Easter Lily by Ada M. Skinner

1:55

Read by Dulaney High Key Club

Song by Henry Neville Maughan

0:45

Read by Dulaney High Key Club

In the Garden: An Easter Prelude by W. M. L. Jay

3:43

Read by Dulaney High Key Club

''Spirit'' and ''Life'' by Margaret Emma Ditto

8:49

Read by Wayne Cooke

A Child's Easter (Poem) by Annie Trumbull Slosson

2:30

Read by Dulaney High Key Club

The Spirit of Easter by Helen Keller

1:56

Read by Dulaney High Key Club

There Are No Dead by Maurice Maeterlinck, adapted from ''The Bluebird" by Madam…

5:37

Read by Phil Schempf

Little Boy Blue (Poem) by Alfred Noyes

1:41

Read by Dulaney High Key Club