From the publisher:
Twenty-seven stories adapted for young children from selections of works of classic writers of the ancient world. The stories were chosen by the author for their inspirational value, either 'because they contained fine moral points, or else because they were poetic statements of natural phenomena which might enhance the study of natural science.' Writers represented in the collection include Plato, Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Pliny, and Ovid.
Table of Contents:
1. A Dream That Came True
2. The Goodness That Is Within
3. For the Little Boy Who Will Not Say “Please”
4. The Gift of the Muses
5. Why the Quarrelsome Men Were Locked Out
6. Memory and Her Beautiful Daughters
7. A Cloud and a Fountain
8. The Gift of Poesy
9. The Pocket of Good and Bad Deeds
10. A Butterfly Story
11. The Mountain That Loved a White Wave
12. The Old Man Who Lived at the Bottom of the Sea
13. What Happened When the Sun Forgot To Behave Well
14. A Tale with Two Heroes
15. How a Little Hero Conquered a Large One
16. An Old Story from Tadpole-Land
17. A Story of the Setting Sun
18. Why the Swan Loves the Water
19. How Coronis Became a Crow
20. The Evil That Came of Not Loving Nature
21. Rocks, Waves, and Sunshine
22. Do unto Trees as You Would Have Them Do unto You
23. The Cranes of Ibycus
24. The Piper Who Pipes on Seven Reeds
25. What Plato Said about the Sphere
26. Atlantis, the Lost Island
27. Prince Red Cap
