- 1Preface
- 2Stories of Child Life
- 3Why the Cow Turned Her Head Away
- 4The Baby of the Regiment
- 5Prudy Parlin
- 6Mrs. Walker’s Betsey
- 7The Rainbow-Pilgrimage
- 8On White Island
- 9The Cruise of the Dolphin
- 10A Young Mahometan
- 11The Little Persian
- 12The Boys’ Heaven
- 13Bessie’s Garden
- 14How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune
- 15Paul and Virginia
- 16Oeyvind and Marit
- 17Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn
- 18Amrie and the Geese
- 19The Robins
- 20The Fish I Didn’t Catch
- 21Little Kate Wordsworth
- 22How Margery Wondered
- 23The Nettle-Gatherer
- 24Little Arthur’s Prayer
- 25Faith and Her Mother
- 26The Open Door
- 27The Prince’s Visit
- 28Fancies of Child Life
- 29Blunder
- 30Star-Dollars
- 31The Immortal Fountain
- 32The Bird’s-Nest in the Moon
- 33Dream-Children: A Revery
- 34The Ugly Duckling
- 35The Poet and His Little Daughter
- 36The Red Flower
- 37The Story Without an End
- 38Memories of Child Life
- 39Madame Michelet
- 40Jean Paul Richter
- 41Charles Lamb
- 42Hugh Miller
- 43Walter Scott
- 44Frederic Douglass
- 45Charles Dickens
Child Life in Prose
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