This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.

This classic text by Flora Cooke is a wonderful collection of enchanting tales of a wide variety nature's beasts and beings. This book includes stories about life forms ranging from mammals and birds to plants and trees. The author's love of the natural world is apparent throughout this volume and it will no doubt prove infectious to all who read the pages inside.

Originally published in 1921 as chapters of the author's larger work, "Nature Myths and Stories," GREEK MYTHS FOR CHILDREN includes fourteen famous Greek myths retold for children. CONTENTS I. Prometheus II. King Alcinous and the Storm Giants III. The Swan Maidens IV. Hermes V. Persephone VI. Iris's Bridge VII. Phaethon VIII. Story of Sisyphus IX. Daphne X. The Poplar Tree XI. Philemon and Baucis XII. Clytie XIII. Arachne XIV. Aurora and Tithonus Sample passage: King Apollo soon missed the cows and searched all the meadow for them. He traced them to the cave, but when he got close to it he found that all the hoof-prints led away from the opening, not into it. He was much puzzled, until an old man nearby told him that he had seen a baby with wings at his heels chasing the cows across the meadow. Apollo knew at once that the baby was his mischievous little brother, Hermes.

FEELING the great need of stories founded upon good literature, which are within the comprehension of little children, I have written the following stories, hoping that they may suggest to primary teachers the great wealth of material within our reach. Many teachers, who firmly believe that reading should be something more than mere word-getting while the child's reading habit is forming, are practically helpless without the use of a printing press. We will all agree that myths and fables are usually beautiful truths clothed in fancy, and the dress is almost always simple and transparent. Who can study these myths and not feel that nature has a new language for him, and that though the tales may be thousands of years old, they are quite as true as they were in the days of Homer. If the trees and the flowers, the clouds and the wind, all tell wonderful stories to the child he has sources of happiness of which no power can deprive him. And when we consider that here, too, is the key which unlocks so much of the best in art and literature, we feel that we cannot rank too highly the importance of the myth in the primary schoolroom.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.