The coming of Spring is perhaps the loveliest thing that happens in Nature and here is the picture-story of how the miracle comes about, from the first waking of the little brown root children underground, to the lovely procession of the flowers and the happy insects, and the return of the root children, tired with the summer's play, to kindly earth again.

Children find endless fascination in every detail of beauty and humor in this long-famous picture-book, and it is a story that speaks a common language to children of all nationalities. It can be charmingly and successfully used as the basis for a spring pageant for small children to act. A simple following of the costumes and action of the pictures, with accompaniment of folk-tunes, makes an easy and effective entertainment.

From the J.P. Lippincott edition