With 12 full-page illustrations by F. C. GORDON
12mo, 222 pages, cloth, gilt top $1.25
This last book of Mrs. Pierson's has all the charm of the
earlier volumes. The adventures of Mother Eel, the Playful
Muskrat, the Snappy Snapping Turtle, and the other Pond People,
will be eagerly followed by children, whether they are
naturalists or ordinary readers. The fact that one does not
continually feel that she is writing for the purpose of
instructing the young, gives Mrs. Pierson her hold on so many
boys and girls. The books teach a great many lessons, but one
does not feel that the author is lying in wait to enlighten the
unwary youngster.
"In it, as in the old Greek comedies, the frogs have a voice and
speak their little orations and crack their jokes and play their
pranks. The 'science' is elementary but the entertainment
genuine, and the little people to whom it is read will ever
cherish a kindly interest in the denizens of the ponds and their
floral homes and environments."--_Interior._
"One lays down the book with quickened sympathy for everything
that crawls and creeps and swims."--_Critic._
"The Pond People are quite as real and as fascinating as were
the Meadow People and the Barnyard People of previous books.
They are genuine stories, full of a humor that will appeal to
boys and girls, yet cleverly conveying information about the
frogs, turtles, minnows, etc., and often suggesting a moral in a
delicate manner which no child could
resent."--_Congregationalist._
"In its way the work is very daintily done."--_Churchman._