Delightful stories for children, drawn from various cultures, and simply told, in a largely phonic vocabulary; divided into four reading levels according to the Montessori system. The stories have helped generations of children to read with pleasure.

Eleven poems of George Herbert selected by arbara Murray, and twenty-two poems by Barbara Murray. With drawings by Guy Ottewell of Bemerton near Salisbury in England, where George Herbert was parish priest from 1630 to 1633. "Most of Barbara Murray's] poems are, as true poetry is, driven by real feeling and crafted out of surprisingly found words. The first few . . . seem the most necessitated, meant, in any language; beside them, many other poems seem to be acts of play that could have been left undone."