Among the Pond People

by Clara Dillingham PIERSON (1868 - 1952)

The Biggest Frog Awakens

Among the Pond People

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)


Listen next episodes of Among the Pond People:
The Careless Caddis Worm , The Clever Water-Adder , The Crayfish Mother , The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes , The Dragon-fly Children and the Snapping Turtle , The Eels' Moving-Night , The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad , The Lucky Mink , The Oldest Dragon-fly Nymph , The Playful Muskrats , The Runaway Water Spiders , The Slow Little Mud Turtle , The Snappy Snapping Turtle , The Stickleback Father , The Tadpole Who Wanted to be Grown Up , The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should , Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel