148 pp. Color illustration mounted on front board, color plates and black-and-white illustrations by Louise Orwig throughout. A collection of classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes (some abbreviated in verse from longer stories). Perhaps most interesting, though, is a section following the text entitled Materials Used in Objects Illustrated, which describes how the illustrations were conceived originally as models using vegetables, flowers, and household items as materials. Includes: The Magic Touch; Little Red Ridinghood and the Wolf; The Marriage of Cinderella; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Jack in the Pulpit; The Sleeping Beauty; Mary and Her Little Lamb; Peter Pumpkin Eater; Hiawatha; Hiawatha in His Canoe; Old Nokomis; Robinson Crusoe and His Boat; Robinson and His Raft; Robinson Crusoe's Man Friday; Friday's Father; The Old Woman and Her Pig; The Wooly-Cum-Stick and the Goozle-y-Woo; Old Mother Hubbard; Little Boy Blue; Jack and Jill; The Cavalier; The Three Bears or Goldilocks; Jack the Giant Killer; Humpty Dumpty; One of the Geese That Saved Rome; A Most Unusual Pair; William of Orange; A Member of the Orchestra; The Good Little Girl; Going to the Fair; Taking Tea; In the Hospital; The Funeral of Mr. Pease; An Englishman and His Little Daughter; A Little Dutch Girl and Boy; The Little Eskimo; A Japanese Baby; Little Red Papooses; The Irishman; The Chinaman; The Spanish Lady; The Mexican; The Frenchman; Aunt Louise; The Baby's Nursemaid; French Cradles; The Husk Mother and Child; The Country Aunt; The Hired Man; Milk-Weed Ducks; In the Jungle; The Roaring Lion; The Alligator.
