THE SLEEPY-TIME STORY-BOOK
By RUTH O. DYER
With Frontispiece by ALICE BARBER STEPHENS and Fifty-four Pen-and-ink Illustrations by BERTHA DAVIDSON HOXIE Decorative End-leaves and Title-page
Price, Net, $1.00; Postpaid, $1.10
Intelligent mothers have learned better than to spoil the restful sleepof a child, and probably exert an unfortunate influence upon hisdisposition and character, by tales of ogres, dark woods, and savagebeasts. They know he cannot rest well with his mind excited and hisblood quickened by tales of adventure, but are at a loss to answer thenatural plea for a bed-time story in a way that shall interest and yetsoothe. The simple nature-stories in this attractive book are theprescription of an expert for all such cases. Using familiar objects,they, with words adapted to a lulling tone of voice, will hold theattention of a child until refreshing drowsiness comes to bringhealthful rest.
"A unique and delightful volume of restful stories by which the mother may put her little child to bed. They meet not only the need of the mother who thinks she does not know how to tell stories, but their slow cadences must be almost magical in the way of lulling a child to refreshing drowsiness."--_Bulletin of the American Institute of Child Life._
"In the fashion of prose lullabies, Ruth Dyer has put together a little volume of twenty-five short stories. Each deals with the things of every-day child experiences, and aside from the standpoint of nap-time stories, forms a pleasant lesson for the child consciousness in making it aware of its surroundings."_--The Churchman._
"Pretty little bedside tales of the tranquilizing order are grouped in this neat little book for the pleasure of little people and the relief of mothers."--_Detroit Free Press._
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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Boston