Why the Snow is White

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 , Daphne , Erysichthon the Hungry , Father Mybrow and the Fairies , How the First Snowdrop Came , Legend of the Corn , Mariora Floriora , 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 Daughter of the Laurel , The Duck-feather Man , The Enchanted Swine , The Garden of Frost Flowers , The Girl who Trod on a Loaf , The Hundred-headed Daffodil , 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 Snow-white Bull , The Turkey-given Corn , The Wind in the Pine , The Winged Horse , The Witch Cat , The Wooing of Pomona , White Flowering Almond , Why Dogs Have Long Tongues , WITH MARVELLOUS FARM THINGS: The Green Plumes of Mondamin; The Proud Buckwheat