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    A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse
    A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse
    A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse
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    A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse

    By Mary Carolyn Davies

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    "A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse" by Mary Carolyn Davies. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMar 16, 2020
    ISBN4064066102135
    A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse

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      A Little Freckled Person - Mary Carolyn Davies

      Mary Carolyn Davies

      A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066102135

      Table of Contents

      Illustrations

      A LITTLE FRECKLED PERSON

      The Selfish Sea

      The Rabbit

      The Uncritical Kitten

      Next-Door People

      Probation

      Perhaps!

      'Fraid Stars

      The Stars

      As You Would Be Done By

      Drawing

      The Fishing-pole

      Sympathy

      The Forest School

      White Cherry

      The Independent Kite

      Practicing

      Fairyland Secret Service

      A Book

      The Lonesome Sea

      The Mountains

      When Dolly is Afraid

      Tree-children

      The Cockatoo

      High Cost of Living

      Need

      Sky-Color

      Left Out

      The White Birch

      The Playmate

      Thanksgiving

      The Nest

      The Orange

      I Almost Got to Fairyland One Day—

      Untrained Trains

      Handicapped

      A Sunset

      To Ships

      Sea-Butterflies

      Buds

      The Flower Cart

      Eavesdroppers

      Singing Secrets

      The Day Before April

      The Corn

      If a Star—

      Dryad

      The Duel

      The Littlest Cloud

      Princes

      Our Share

      If I were Santa's Little Boy

      The Party Dress

      The Clock That Autumn Winds

      Conversation

      The Homesick Star

      The Lonesomest Fairy

      The Present

      Grief

      The Saturdays' Party in Fairyland

      The Sorrows of a Seamstress

      My Mother's Garden is the Sea—

      The Gymnastic Clock

      Snowflakes

      Pirate Song

      Our Playhouse is so Near to Fairyland—

      New Leaves

      Beach Birds

      The Sky's Song

      A Spring Thought

      The Zoo

      Six in June

      Cloud Magic

      Ambition

      Tree Birthdays

      In Autumn

      Star-Caste

      A Newsboy

      A Playground

      Moons

      The Discovery

      Gardening is Heaps of Fun!

      Fairy Town

      Straight Hair

      Bedtime

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