The Wonder Garden - Nature Myths and Tales From all the World Over for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading

Illustrated by Milo Winter

Frances Jenkins Olcott, Milo Winter

• Publisher: Pook Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473387515
• Print ISBN:
  9781447477464
  9781447477792

This 'Wonder Book', written by Frances Jenkins Olcott, is a collection of over 150 nature myths and tales from all parts of the world, illustrated by Milo Winter. It's 500 pages provide a vast array of tales, including tales of flowers, fairies, dragons, talking birds, magic waters and enchanted forests, that children can revel and delight in. Winter (1888 – 1956) was best-loved for his animal drawings, and was among the artists working in the later stages of the 'Golden Age'. His work can be identified from its masterful accuracy, humorous touches, personality, and attention to detail. Winter produced artwork for such well-known tales as Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, and Gulliver's Tales. Presented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine and elucidate Olcott's captivating storytelling. A bit of the Sky fell down one day; It touched a Star and glanced away; A spark from the Star in its breast it bore, And fell to the earth, and was no more. Up sprang from the grass a tiny flower That brightly grew 'neath sun and shower:- The bit of the Sky in its petals blue, The spark from the Star in its bodom, too. The Star gazed down at its happy lot, And whispered, 'Dear, forget-me-not!'

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Illustrations
• The Wonder Garden
• Along the Flowery Wonder Path
• In the Rose Bower with the Rose Queen
• With the Soaring Talking Birds
• Where Flora Reigns the Queen of Flowers
• Plucking Meadow Wonder Blossoms
• Listening to the Magic Waters
• Catching Insects Green and Blue
• Wandering Through the Enchanted Forest
• Gathering Fruits Strange, Rich, and Ripe
• Diving Through the Green Sea Waves
• On the Wings of the Wind in the Rainbow Sky
• With Flash o’ Fire and Glint o’ Gold
• With Snow Elves in Snow Hills
• Secrets of the Whispering Trees
• With Marvellous Farm Things
• All the Happy Wonder Months
• Appendix