Description301 pages. Tissue guarded frontis. Illustrated throughout in black and white. In Whittier's preface he states that the aim is to collect "prose stories and sketches gathered from the literature of widely separated nationalities and periods." Contents Include: Little Annie's Ramble; Prudy Parlin; The Rainbow Pilgrimage; The Cruise of the Dolphin; The Littler Persian; Bessie's Garden; Paul And Virginia; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn., etc. Authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Sophie May", Celia Thaxter, T B. Aldrich, Mary Lamb, Charles Dickens, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Lamb, and Hans Christian Andersen, and many others. A Companion volume to Child Life in Poetry published a few years earlier.