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Animals & Nature

The Wonder Garden

by Frances Jenkins OLCOTT (1872 - 1963)

"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transformations of maidens into trees and fountains, of youths into flowers, and of men into birds. Blossoms, fragrance, and joy are the themes of many of these tales, while a few a tender, pathetic, or humorous." (From the Foreword of the book.) - Summary by Frances Jenkins Olcott

Listen next episodes of The Wonder Garden:
ALL THE HAPPY WONDER MONTHS: The Four Sweet Months; The Four Seasons of the Year; Old Man Coyote and Summer in a Bag , Arion and the Dolphin , Daphne , Erysichthon the Hungry , Father Mybrow and the Fairies , Flower of the rainbow , How the First Snowdrop Came , Legend of the Corn , Little White Rabbit , Mariora Floriora , ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND IN THE RAINBOW SKY: The Song of the Cloud; Why the Iris Wears Rainbow Colours , Orpheus who Made the Trees to Dance , Peach Boy's Rice-cakes , Potato! Potato! , SECRETS OF THE WHISPERING TREES: Song; Old-man-who-made-the-trees-to-blossom , The Bag of Winds , The Boy whose Wings Fell off , The Colours of the Rainbow , The Daughter of the Laurel , The Drop of the Water of Light , The Duck-feather Man , The Enchanted Swine , The Fairy Swan Song , The Garden of Frost Flowers , The Girl who Trod on a Loaf , The Halcyon Birds , The Hundred-headed Daffodil , The Jewel Tears , The Lazy Boys who became the Pleiades , The Maiden in the Moon , The Man in the Moon , The Man who Brought Fire , The Maple Leaf for ever! , The New Year , The Old Woman who Met the Months , The Pet Turkey whose Feelings were Hurt , The Potato-choosing Boy , The Ram with the Golden Fleece , The Reed that was a Maiden , The Reeds that Told a Secret , The Seven Corn Maidens , The Sheep in the Pasture , The Snow-white Bull , The Snowball Hares , The Story of Jack and Jill , The Turkey-given Corn , The Wicked Fairies , The Wind in the Pine , The Winged Horse , The Witch Cat , The Wooing of Pomona , White Flowering Almond , Why Dogs Have Long Tongues , Why the Snow is White , Why Unlucky Iron Kills , WITH FLASH O' FIRE AND GLINT O' GOLD: How the Cyclops made Æneas' Armour in Vulcan's Forge; The Golden Gift of King Midas , WITH MARVELLOUS FARM THINGS: The Green Plumes of Mondamin; The Proud Buckwheat , WITH SNOW ELVES IN SNOW HILLS: The Snow Elves; Snow-blanche