Flower Children
"The Little Cousins of the Field and Garden"
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2016
20 pages
978-605-9654-37-1 (ISBN)
Description
A flower, a child, and a mother's heart-
These three are never so far apart.
A child, a flower, and a mother's love-
This world's best gifts from the world above.
LL children are flowers in the garden of God's love.
A flower is the mystical counterpart of a child.
To the under-standing heart a child is a flower and a flower is a child. God made flowers on the day that He made the world beautiful. Then He gave the world children to play amid the flowers. God has implanted in the breasts of children a natural love for flowers-and no one who keeps that love in his heart has entirely forsaken the land of childhood.
In preparing this book the author and the artist have at-tempted to show the kinship of children and flowers-and it is their hope that the little ones into whose hands this volume comes will find herein the proof that their knowledge of what flowers really are is true and that their love for the friendly blossoms is returned many-fold.
To you, then, little child-flowers, this book is lovingly of-fered as an expression of thankfulness to children for the joy and sweetness with which they have filled my life.
-ELIZABETH GORDON
The Little Cousins of
the Field and Garden
By Elizabeth' Gordon
Drawings by M.T. ROSS
These three are never so far apart.
A child, a flower, and a mother's love-
This world's best gifts from the world above.
LL children are flowers in the garden of God's love.
A flower is the mystical counterpart of a child.
To the under-standing heart a child is a flower and a flower is a child. God made flowers on the day that He made the world beautiful. Then He gave the world children to play amid the flowers. God has implanted in the breasts of children a natural love for flowers-and no one who keeps that love in his heart has entirely forsaken the land of childhood.
In preparing this book the author and the artist have at-tempted to show the kinship of children and flowers-and it is their hope that the little ones into whose hands this volume comes will find herein the proof that their knowledge of what flowers really are is true and that their love for the friendly blossoms is returned many-fold.
To you, then, little child-flowers, this book is lovingly of-fered as an expression of thankfulness to children for the joy and sweetness with which they have filled my life.
-ELIZABETH GORDON
The Little Cousins of
the Field and Garden
By Elizabeth' Gordon
Drawings by M.T. ROSS
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Person
Elizabeth Gordon (1866 - 1922) was a juvenile fantasy author whose works include Flower Children, Bird Children, and Mother Earth's Children, a delightful collection of poems about the "frolics of the fruits and vegetables." Illustrations by M.T. Ross engage children to identify a variety of plants and birds.
Mother Earth's ChildrenHer passion to help children connect with the food they eat is evident in her forward to Mother Earth's Children:
"A seed, little friends, is really a plant or a tree all wrapped up in a little brown bundle. If you plant it in the ground it will grow, and when it is old enough it will bear fruit, because God has made it so.
Among all the children of Mother Nature, the fruits and vegetables are probably the most useful to us. Wherever we may go some of these little people are there before us, ready to help us by giving us food and to make life easy and joyous for us. In your Mother's garden you will always find many familiar friends; in the fields the graceful Grain children will nod and beckon to you; in the orchard the Fruit children will peep out at you from their leafy homes; along the roadside the gay little Berries will give you a friendly greeting, and in the forest you will find the little wild Grapes climbing trees and playing hide and seek with the Bird children.
Mother Earth's ChildrenHer passion to help children connect with the food they eat is evident in her forward to Mother Earth's Children:
"A seed, little friends, is really a plant or a tree all wrapped up in a little brown bundle. If you plant it in the ground it will grow, and when it is old enough it will bear fruit, because God has made it so.
Among all the children of Mother Nature, the fruits and vegetables are probably the most useful to us. Wherever we may go some of these little people are there before us, ready to help us by giving us food and to make life easy and joyous for us. In your Mother's garden you will always find many familiar friends; in the fields the graceful Grain children will nod and beckon to you; in the orchard the Fruit children will peep out at you from their leafy homes; along the roadside the gay little Berries will give you a friendly greeting, and in the forest you will find the little wild Grapes climbing trees and playing hide and seek with the Bird children.
