Pretty Tales for the Nursery
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A birthday present makes a little girl determined to learn to read, while her sleepy cat provides an audience for her plans. Isabel Thompson's short nursery stories turn familiar experiences into lessons about conduct. Another child, James, sees a cold and hungry dog outside his window and asks his mother to help it. Elsewhere, Mary carries a small tin can to a pond despite her mother's warning about the water.
Household objects, conversations with parents and encounters with animals give these tales their small scale. Their plain sentences connect care for books and kindness towards others with obedience and religious teaching. Prayers and accounts of Jesus place the children's choices within a clear moral framework. The collection offers readers a look at how older nursery fiction used everyday situations to teach reading, responsibility and faith.
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Book facts
- Author
- Isabel Thompson
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 42
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Childrens Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online