Our Robins
Death and dying; the natural world.
The narrator spends time with her dying friend and the friend's young son, sharing a love of flowers and birds, and reflecting on the habits of robins and their similarities to human beings.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
A Love-Token for Children: Designed for Sunday-School Libraries, 40- 52.
New York: Harper & Brothers
1838
Robin L. Cadwallader, L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
Reprinted in the Southern Literary Messenger [edited by T.H. White] (May 1838): 318-21. Collected in Stories for Children [edited by Robin L. Cadwallader], RMTK Books, 2016, 25-46.
English
The Magic Lamp
Cheerfulness, inner light, Nature, religion.
An aunt tells her nieces and nephews the story of a girl named Serena and the magic lamp she receives from mother Nature.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
A Love Token for Children, Designed for Sunday-School Libraries., 34-39.
New York: Harper & Brothers
1838
Robin Cadwallader, D. Gussman
Reprinted in The Jewel [edited by Emma F. Alston], 35-41, New York, 1844. Collected in Stories for Children [edited by Robin Cadwallader], 13-24, RMTK Books, 2016
English