The Pedlar and His Dog (Classic Reprint)
Author: Mary C. Rowsell
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Published: 2015-09-27
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781330633670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Pedlar and His Dog A small chosen library is like a walled, garden where a child may safely play. In that charmed seclusion the love of books, like the love of flowers, grows of itself If the reading habit is to be acquired, the child ought from the first to be given real books, which may be handled with pleasure and kept with pride - books containing literature suited to its own age. This volume belongs to a series of "Stories Old and New" which has been prepared specially for children. The books have been carefully chosen so as to include, along with many charming stories by the best children's authors of to-day, a due proportion of those older tales which never grow old. To secure simplicity and right gradation, the text has been prepared to suit the different ages of readers. Care has been given to the illustration, print, and binding of the series, for it is believed that this is the best way to secure from the children that careful handling of the volumes which is the mark of the true book-lover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
