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Published 1917: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original green embossed cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 192 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age. (HQ399)

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Sixteen stories ideally suited for kindergarten children who take great interest in lively stories about familiar things, especially those that include rhyme and repetition as these stories do. Within each story is a subtle moral, pleasing to children and not at all obtrusive. Attractive black and white illustrations enliven the text. Suitable for ages 4 and up.

Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874-1941) was an American educator. She is best known for being the founder of the first free kindergarten in Alabama, and a close friend of Helen Keller. In 1995, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.

She was born in 1874 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to parents Robert Burns Lindsay and Sarah Miller Lindsay. One of nine children, Lindsay was homeschooled until gaining admission to the Deshler Female Institute. Lindsay studied under Jeanne Pittitt Cooper, a prominent kindergarten teacher in Alabama. She first started her career as a private music teacher in Tuscumbia, later founding a private kindergarten in her own home. She admired Friedrich Fröbel and followed his ideas. In 1896, she spent a year at the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House in Boston. In 1898, she founded and became a teacher at the first free kindergarten in Alabama.

Lindsay was also an author of over 18 children's books. The first was "Mrs. Speckelty Hen". In addition, she was an avid poet. It was said that "No present day writer for the young is more deservedly well-liked than Maud Lindsay."

She was the third president of the Alabama Writers Conclave; a member Blue Pencil Club of Florence; an officer in the Birmingham Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Her name was inscribed in the Book of Golden Deeds by the Exchange Club of Florence as the most outstanding citizen. Lindsay died on May 30, 1941. Google Books...