The Girl who Trod on a Loaf

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 , Mariora Floriora , The Hundred-headed Daffodil , The New Year , The Old Woman who Met the Months , The Reed that was a Maiden , The Reeds that Told a Secret , The Wooing of Pomona