Buttercup Gold And Other Stories

MP3 Audio CD. Buttercup Gold and Other Stories made use of the beauty of nature as figures of speech for life, death, development, and transformation so as to educate the young children with regards to life in plain but mythical ways. The fanciful work was dedicated to the story writer?s loving kindergarten children, and especially to her young friend, Alice Caro Wing.

As Lowell said, "Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth preach of love and hope and peace." And as Longfellow quoted, "Come to me, O, ye children! And whisper in my ear. What the birds and winds are singing. In your sunny atmosphere. Ye are better than all the ballads. That were ever sung or said; For ye are living poems. And all the rest are dead."; "And Nature, the old nurse, took the child upon her knee, saying: 'Here is a story-book thy Father has written for thee."

The stories include The Little New Year, Mother Nature's House Cleaning, How the Raindrops and Sunbeams Helped, Rock-A-By Baby, A Child of Spring, Mr. Frog's Story, The Robin, Easter Carol, The Lily Sisters, Nature's Violet Children, Baby Caterpillar, Five Little Indian Brothers, Buttercup Gold, The Raindrops, A Fall Song, The Babies' Blankets, The First Christmas, The Christmas Star and Love's Garden.

In her short story entitled, The Little New Year, it tells of the story of Maurice. It was a chilly day when Maurice woke up from his fantasies and sat in his bed and paid closer attention. There was a knock on his window, a young fellow was asking for help to share some kindness to others, he said he was the little new year. The young Maurice happily agrees to help his new friend.

Ellen Robena Field is well known for this work, Buttercup Gold stories, which made her highly complimented in the last years of the 19th century.