Stories of Many Lands
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Children in English towns, Scottish homes and Italian villages share the pages of this collection by Grace Greenwood. Short stories appear alongside poems, charades and rebus puzzles, giving the volume the variety of a family reading book. Its opening tale follows Harry and Tommy Wilde, whose amusement at a small woman's appearance meets a sharp correction when their mother discovers her generous Christmas visits to a struggling household.
Elsewhere, Giuseppe and Lucia try to support themselves after their mother's death. Giuseppe buys puppets and plays the pipes as the siblings travel between towns, eventually meeting Garibaldi and his soldiers near a spring. Kindness, family loyalty and judgments about other people connect these different settings. The direct moral lessons and frequent Christmas scenes give readers a view of children's reading in the nineteenth century, with puzzles and verse breaking up the prose.
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Book facts
- Author
- Grace Greenwood
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 89
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Childrens Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online