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Mother Stories

Mother Stories

Noble-Ives, Sarah
Lindsay, Maud

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Bedtime & DreamsGeneral Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 193461033X
ISBN13: 9781934610336
Publisher: Bluewater Pub
Published: May 25 2010
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.35 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
I have endeavored to write, for mothers and dear little children, a few simple stories, embodying some of the truths of Froebel's Mother Play. The Mother Play is such a vast treasure house of Truth, that each one who seeks among its stores may bring to light some gem; and though, perhaps, I have missed its diamonds and rubies, I trust my string of pearls may find acceptance with some mother who is trying to live with her children. I have written my own mottoes, with a few exceptions, that I might emphasize the particular lesson which I endeavor to teach in the story; for every motto in the Mother Play comprehends so much that it is impossible to use the whole for a single subject. From The Bridge for instance, which is replete with lessons, I have taken only one, -for the story of the Little Traveler. Most of these stories have been told and retold to little children, and are surrounded, in my eyes, by a halo of listening faces. Mrs. Tabby Gray is founded on a true story of a favorite cat. The Journey is a new version of the old Stage Coach game, much loved by our grandmothers; and I am indebted to some old story, read in childhood, for the suggestion of Dust Under the Rug, which was a successful experiment in a kindergarten to test the possibility of interesting little children in a story after the order of Grimm, with the wicked stepmother and her violent daughter eradicated. Elizabeth Peabody says we are all free to look out of each other's windows; and so I place mine at the service of all who care to see what its tiny panes command. MAUD LINDSAY.

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