Books with author MARGARET VANDERCOOK

The snow was falling in heavy slashing sheets, and a December snowstorm in the New Hampshire hills means something more serious than a storm in city streets or even an equal downfall upon more level meadows and plains.Yet on this winter afternoon, about an hour before twilight and along the base of a hill where a rough road wandered between tall cedar and pine trees and low bushes and shrubs, there sounded continually above the snow’s silencing two voices, sometimes laughing, occasionally singing a brief line or so, but more often talking. Accompanying them always was a steady jingling of bells.“We simply can’t get there to-night, Princess,” one of the voices protested, still with a questioning note as though hardly believing in its own assertion.“We simply can’t do anything else, my child” the other answered teasingly. “Have you ever thought how much harder it is to travel backward in this world than forward, otherwise I suppose we should have had eyes placed in the back of our heads and our feet would have turned around the other way? Don’t be frightened, there really isn’t the least danger.”Then there was a sudden swish of a whip cutting the cold air and with a fresh tinkling of bells the shaggy pony plunged ahead. Five minutes afterwards with an instinctive stiffening of his forelegs he started sliding slowly down a steep embankment, where the road apparently ended, dragging his load behind him and only stopping on finally reaching the low ground and finding his sleigh had overturned.For a while the unusual stillness was oppressive. But a little later there followed a movement and then an unsteady voice calling, “Steady, Fire Star,” as a tall girl in a gray hood and coat covered all over with snow came crawling forth from the uppermost side of the sleigh and immediately began pulling at it with trembling hands.

"Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook was an American writer of children's literature. She did not become a professional writer until after her husband's death, but has since been described as the queen of Camp Fire writers, writing twenty-one Camp Fire novels under her own name as well as under the pseudonym "Margaret Love Sanderson" (also used by Emma Keats Speed Sampson, author of the Miss Minerva books). In addition to the Camp Fire Girls series, Margaret is also known for her other girls' series books, which include the Ranch Girls, the Red Cross Girls, and the Girl Scouts. "

The sleepy little town of Westhaven, Connecticut holds plenty of surprises for chums Tory Drew, Memory Frean, and Katherine Moore, who are members of the same Girl Scout Patrol of the Eagle’s Wing Troop. Originally published in 1921, "The Girl Scouts of the Round Table" brings them Arthurian-themed adventure, as they embrace Tennyson's classic poem, "Idylls of the King."

The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army' is part of a series of youth fiction books by American author Margaret Vandercook. It is set during the First World War and follows the experiences of the brave girls in the Red Cross as they tend to the sick and wounded. First published in 1916, this is not only an entertaining read, but also gives an insight into how the Great War was depicted in contemporary literature. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.