Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Peirson, 1897
Among the Meadow People introduces children to the wildlife of the field and meadow. Each chapter contains a story about a different meadow animal including butterflies, birds, caterpillars, snails, ants, spiders, beetles, crickets, worms, cicada, frogs, grasshoppers, mosquitos, and more.
The stories discuss the animal's habits and movements. Since we can't understand animal language, the author depicts the animals talking to each other in English, but she does it so skillfully that you can imagine that they are using their own ways of communicating through voice and gesture.
This book is sure to enhance any meadow or field animal nature study curriculum or serve you as an educational bedtime story companion. I should also mention the gentle moral lessons at the end of each chapter that opens the young reader to personal discussions.
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210 pages (approx.) with Original Black and White Illustrations
Table of Contents
1. The Butterfly That Went Calling
2. The Robins Build a Nest
3. The Selfish Tent-Caterpillar
4. The Lazy Snail
5. The Ant That Wore Wings
6. The Cheerful Harvestmen
7. The Little Spider's First Web
8. The Beetle Who Did Not Like Caterpillars
9. The Young Robin Who Was Afraid To Fly
10. The Crickets' School
11. The Contented Earthworms
12. The Measuring Worm's Joke
13. A Puzzled Cicada
14. The Tree Frog's Story
15. The Day When the Grass Was Cut
16. The Grasshopper and the Measuring Worm Run a Race
17. Mr. Green Frog and His Visitors
18. The Dignified Walking-Sticks
19. The Day of the Great Storm
20. The Story of the Lily-Pad Island
21. The Grasshopper Who Wouldn't Be Scared
22. The Earthworm Half-Brothers
23. A Gossiping Fly
24. The Frog-Hoppers Go Out into the World
25. The Mosquito Tries To Teach His Neighbors
26. The Frog Who Thought Herself Sick
27. The Katydids' Quarrel
28. The Last Party of the Season