Sunshine Stories

"I'll tell you a story," said the Wind. "Kindly remember," said the Rain, "that it's my turn to talk. You've been howling around the corner at the top of your voice quite long enough."

Luck May Lie in a Pin

A Story Told For My Young American Friends
I'll tell you a story about luck. All of us know what it is to be lucky.

The Court Cards

Oh, so many dainty things can be cut out of pasteboard and pasted together! In this fashion there was cut and pasted a castle so large that it took up a whole tabletop, and it was painted so that it seemed to be built out of red brick. 

Pieter, Peter, and Peer

It is unbelievable all that children know nowadays; one can scarcely say what they don't know. They no longer believe the old story that the stork brought them to father and mother out of the well or the millpond when they were little, and yet it is really true.

The Days of the Week

The days of the week once wanted to be free to get together and have a party.

Which Was the Happiest

"Such lovely roses!" said the Sunshine. "And each bud will soon burst in bloom and be equally beautiful. These are my children. It is I who have kissed them to life." 

The Rags

Outside the paper mill, masses of rags lay piled in high stacks; they had been gathered from far and wide. Every rag had a tale to tell, and told it, too; but we can't listen to all of them.

Godfather's Picture Book - Part II

"How did it go with that wandering bird, King Christian? The birds have sung about it, and they fly far over distant lands and seas."

Godfather's Picture Book - Part I

Godfather could tell stories, so many of them and such long ones, and he could cut out paper figures and draw pictures. When it was nearly Christmas he would bring out a scrapbook with clean white pages, and on these he pasted pictures cut out of books and newspapers; and if there weren't enough for the story he was going to tell, he drew them himself.

The Dryad- Part II

The houses were so high and close. The sun shone only upon one wall; that was covered with posters and placards, and people crowded and thronged around it. Carriages rushed by, light ones and heavy ones. Busses, filled to overflowing, rattled by like moving houses. Carts and carriages squabbled over the right of way.