In the SILVER NIGHTINGALE there are twenty stories for boys and girls. The stories range from fantasy to true-to-life narratives of everyday happenings. Here you may read of the little princess whose magic slipper was stolen by the Silver Nightingale, and of the wonderful things which happened to Mazella, the head game-keeper's daughter, who found it.
Or about the circus, with its lions, elephants, and clowns, which stopped at the top of Dewberry Lane and brought wonder and joy to five eager Brewster children.
You will also want to learn about Biddy, a little girl who found her long-lost father in the Far West, and about Nippy, an Alaskan Husky who was also lost. He jumped into a strange car and was taken away into the mountains of Idaho, where he achieved fame as the winner of a dog derby.
The illustrations are by Agnes Randall Moore.
Young people who have enjoyed Ruth Gipson Plowhead's Lucretia Ann and Josie and Joe books, as well as others she has written, will be delighted with this collection of twenty of the author's best short stories for boys and girls. Many of them have already appeared in leading juvenile magazines, including Story Parade, Child Life, and Junior Home (now Children's Activities), and some have been republished in anthologies, collections of period stories, and in school readers.
Among the stories included you will find one about a girl who longed to be a "paper boy" and who became a "paper girl"; one about a mother who was nominated to be the "Typical Mother's Day Mother" by her children; and one about a little girl who, in the days of the Oregon Trail, brought the seeds from a "golden apple" all the way to Idaho so that they could be planted there in the virgin soil.
Did you find this review helpful?