Dooryard Stories (Yesterday's Classics) by Clara Dillingham Pierson E. B. White -- Jen Pollock Michel

-- Jen Pollock Michel

and The Conquest of Nature

and the children are whisked off to the Land of Long Ago on the back of the old tree dragon

take an imaginary walk on the beach

Twice a week during the school year

Dooryard Stories (Yesterday's Classics) by Clara Dillingham Pierson E. B. White -- Jen Pollock MichelAround the dooryard nest all sorts of birds, including flickers, robins, sparrows, wrens, swifts, and blackbirds. These stories convey some of the drama that arises in the garden as birds go about the business of building nests and raising young. The author's cat Silvertip figures in a number of the narratives as do a number of other mammals and insects. Invites children to "see how many tiny neighbors you have around you, and how much you can learn