Emma Gelders Sterne 9 min read

The nursery-rhyme boy who let the sheep into the meadow and the cows into the corn, retold for the very young.

Emma Gelders Sterne's 1924 picture-book, part of the 'All About' series and illustrated by Thelma Gooch, expands the familiar Mother Goose figure into a small tale for little readers. A charming period artifact of 1920s children's publishing. Read it for the gentle, old-fashioned pleasures of a nursery-rhyme picture-book from a bygone age.

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Thelma Gooch