A country family opens its ‘budget’ of stories each evening: fables of the young mouse and the wasp and bee, natural history of the flying fish, conversations on manufactures and science, short plays, poems and moral tales. Brother and sister John Aikin and Anna Barbauld wrote the pieces to inform as much as to entertain.
One of the most popular children’s books of its age, a window on Enlightenment ideas of education. Download the free EPUB.