Among the Pond People
by Clara Dillingham Pierson
About this book
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's imagination and allows them a glimpse of the mysterious lives being carried out above and below the water's surface. (Summary by Jill Engle)
Chapters (18)
1The Biggest Frog Awakens
2The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes
3The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should
4The Stickleback Father
5The Careless Caddis Worm
6The Tadpole Who Wanted to be Grown Up
7The Runaway Water Spiders
8The Slow Little Mud Turtle
9The Dragon-fly Children and the Snapping Turtle
10The Snappy Snapping Turtle
11The Clever Water-Adder
12The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad
13The Oldest Dragon-fly Nymph
14The Eels' Moving-Night
15The Crayfish Mother
16Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel
17The Lucky Mink
18The Playful Muskrats
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