This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

1925. A child's reading primer with the premise that the material should be at once easy enough to be pleasurable and interesting enough to be stimulating-so that the child, with a minimum of attention to the difficult mechanics of the process, may be led unconsciously to develop by much practice his newly acquired grasp and skill...Underneath all the changing problems of method lies the perennial problem of interest, and it is here that the special field of this little book is felt to lie. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.

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 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

Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960) was an American poet and author from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her works include, Blue Smoke, poems (1919), The Garden of the Plynck (1920), and The Burning Bush (1920). The Garden of the Plynck is a fantasy childrens tale. Sara has a series of adventures when she has learned to "go inside her head and shut the doors." She visits the Garden where she finds all its wonders. Sara meets a fairy named Avrillia. who writes poetry on rose petals and throws them into Nothing in the hopes that years later someone will find and read them. This is a delightful book sure to be loved especially by anyone who loved Alice in Wonderland.

Grown people have such an exasperating way of saying, "Now, when I was a little girl -" Then, just as you prick up the little white ears of your mind for a story, they finish, loftily, "I did - or didn't do - so-and-so." It is certainly an under

Grown people have such an exasperating way of saying, "Now, when I was a little girl -" Then, just as you prick up the little white ears of your mind for a story, they finish, loftily, "I did - or didn't do - so-and-so." It is certainly an under

1925. A child's reading primer with the premise that the material should be at once easy enough to be pleasurable and interesting enough to be stimulating-so that the child, with a minimum of attention to the difficult mechanics of the process, may be led unconsciously to develop by much practice his newly acquired grasp and skill...Underneath all the changing problems of method lies the perennial problem of interest, and it is here that the special field of this little book is felt to lie. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.

In the intimate language of one who watched birds daily, Karle Wilson Baker brought readers face to face with the wonders of the East Texas woods in the 1930s. She wrote about tiny warblers, industrious chickadees, and purple finches; the aery trills and tantalizing color flashes of the hummingbirds; the bell tones of the woodthrush; the daily visits and rare drop-ins of the prolific bird life of the region. In a daily diary she kept throughout her life, Baker recorded her observations of the many birds that lived in the heavily wooded setting of her Nacogdoches home, called Tanglewood. When her family moved from the house, she collected her essays on bird life into this volume, illustrated by her daughter Charlotte and published in 1930. Her little classic speaks with the voice of her times to readers today who enjoy their avian companions. For more about the author of this charming volume, see Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker, a biography written by Sarah Ragland Jackson and published by Texas A&M University Press.