Miss Ruth Elliot, kept to a crutch on her parsonage porch, gathers the village children and teaches them about the creatures around them. A tobacco worm from Sammy Ray’s field begins a series of talks and stories about caterpillars, butterflies, spiders, birds and beasts, mixing real natural history with fables of insect armies and woodland struggles.
A quiet nineteenth-century nature book for children that still makes a good introduction to the garden and field. Download the free EPUB.