Excerpts from The Little Prince

The Little Prince written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint Exupéry translated from the French by Katherine Woods Chapter 1 Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act…

Kate Greenaway –

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY On a Letter to Ruskin. About the name of Kate Greenaway there floats a perfume so sweet and fragrant that even at the moment of her death we thought more of the artist we admired than of the friend we had lost. Grateful for the work she had produced, with all its charm…

The Story of Greece Illustrated by Walter Crane

The Story of Greece by Mary MacGregor MacGregor, Mary. The Story of Greece. London, T. C. and E. C. JACK, Ltd., 1914. Illustrated by Walter Crane. CHAPTER I WONDERLAND The story of Greece began long, long ago in a strange wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers, each had a pathway which led upward and…

The Three Bears – Walter Crane

THE THREE BEARS. Some time ago, ere we were born or thought of,There lived a little girl, who liked to roamThrough lonely woods and lanes, unknown, unsought ofSuch folk who like to stop and stay at home.She found out curious things in all her travelAnd one of her adventures I will tell:Once, in a wood…

The Sleeping Beauty Illustrated by Walter Crane

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY. Long, long ago, in ancient times, there lived a King and Queen, And for the blessing of a child their longing sore had been: At last, a little daughter fair, to their great joy, was given, And to the christening feast they made, they bade the Fairies seven— The Fairies seven, who…