By Ellen Robena Field

By Ellen Robena Field

Copyrighted, 1894, by the Bangor (Maine) Kindergarten Association

This book is lovingly dedicated to the dear kindergarten
children, and particularly to my little friend, Alice Caro Wing.

"Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth preach of
love and hope and peace."—Lowell.

"Come to me, O, ye children! And whisper in my ear What the birds and winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. Ye are better than all the ballads That were ever sung or said; For ye are living poems And all the rest are dead."—Longfellow. "And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: 'Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee."—Longfellow.

CONTENTS

The Little New Year

Mother Nature's House Cleaning

How the Raindrops and Sunbeams Helped

Rock-A-By Baby

A Child of Spring

Mr. Frog's Story

The Robin

Easter Carol

The Lily Sisters

Nature's Violet Children

Baby Caterpillar

Five Little Indian Brothers

Buttercup Gold

The Raindrops

A Fall Song

The Babies' Blankets

The First Christmas

The Christmas Star

Love's Garden