Gateway to the Classics: The Turquoise Story Book by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner
 
The Turquoise Story Book by  Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner
Table of Contents
Summer (selection)
How Summer Conquered Winter
A Legend of Flowers
June (selection)
The Sun-Goddess
The Summer Maker
Summer (selection)
In the Kitchen-Garden
Glad Day
The Summer Princess
Midsummer
Selection
Day
How the Sun Was Caught and Freed
A Day of Sunshine
Phaeton's Drive in the Sun-Chariot
Song
Summer Sun
The Cloud
Undine
Legend of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
The Princess Moonbeam
The Moon
The Spacious Firmament on High
Nature's Song
The Gift of Flax
The Story of the Dewdrop
The Dew Mother
Origin of the Dandelion
Prince Butterfly and Clover
A Song of Clover
Tithonus: A Legend of the Grasshopper
The Grasshopper
The Golden Grasshopper
A Blade of Grass
Selection
Princess Fire-Fly
July (selection)
Cuff and the Woodchuck
Why the Lady-Bug Is Said to Be Beloved of God
Selection
The Story of Arachne
How the Spider Makes Its Web
The Fairy Spinner
Mother Spider
The Brook
Legend of the Water-Lily
The Tale of the Two Tails
Origin of Bullfrogs
Woodland Waters
The Grubbiest Grub
The Dragon-Fly
Selection
Selection
How Woodpecker Changed His Colours
A Retort from the Catbird
Woodpecker Life
Kingfisher's Necklace and Ruffle
Owl Wisdom
Birds' Nests
Hatto the Hermit: The Legend of a Bird's Nest
Song
The Plucky Prince
The Oak
Summer Snow
The Boy Who Hated Trees
The Friendly Summer Trees
Forest Day
Woodman, Spare That Tree
Selection
Selection
How the Rose Became Queen
Morning-Glories
Why Roses Have Thorns
Sweet Peas
Legend of the Primrose
Evening Primroses
Legend of the Lily-of-the-Valley
Katrina's Sun-Dial
The Three Little Butterflies
The Pinks
The Flower's Thanks
Pansies
The Little Heartsease
Legend of the Red Geranium
Enchanted Tulips
Iris
The Yellow-Bird
Origin of the Sunflower
The Bluebell
The Dew Mother's Gift to the Rose
A Yellow Pansy
Mignonette
Flowers
Selection
The Friendly Cowslip Bells
Fairy Dawn
Robin Goodfellow
A Quarrel in Fairyland
In the Cool of the Evening

Summer

Hang out your loveliest star, O Night!

O Night!

Your richest rose, O Dawn!

To greet sweet Summer, her who clothed in

Light

Leads Earth's best hours on.

Hark! how the wild birds of the woods

Throat it within the dewy solitudes;

The brook sings low and soft,

The trees make song,

As from her heaven aloft

Comes blue-eyed Summer like a girl along.

Madison Cawein.

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