When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is...
Trees are all different, as you know, and I am sure some tiresome person must have told you that there are no two blades of grass exactly alike. But in streets, where the blades of grass don't grow, e...
Roberta was the eldest. Of course, Mothers never have favourites, but if their Mother HAD had a favourite, it might have been Roberta. Next came Peter, who wished to be an Engineer when he grew up; an...
People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not...
No, it's not French, said Peter. Try him with French if you know so much about it, said the farmer-man. Parlay voo Frongsay? began Peter, boldly, and the next moment the crowd recoiled again, for the...
I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.
I have often thought that if the people who write books for children knew a little more it would be better. I shall not tell you anything about us except what I should like to know about if I was read...
I can't think what made him so horrid. Perhaps it was because he had been so very nice and kind all the earlier part of the day, and now he had to have a change. This is called reaction. One notices i...
He had an engine that he loved With all his heart and soul, And if he had a wish on earth It was to keep it whole. One day—my friends, prepare your minds; I'm coming to the worst— Quite suddenly a scr...
For London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich.
Avarice,
And there's 'Three Chimneys' done in the purple primroses, said Phyllis. And that little tiny rose-bud is Mother looking out for us when we're late for tea. Peter invented it all, and we got all the f...
I'm going to buy buns for tea, said Peter. I thought you were all so poor, said the Station Master. So we are, said Peter, confidentially, but we always have three pennyworth of halfpennies for tea wh...