Books with title Among the Night People

Stories of animals of the night for young children, relating the activities of raccoons, skunks, moths, foxes, fireflies, and weasels. Since we can't understand animal language, the author depicts the animals talking to each other in English, but she does it so skillfully that you can imagine that they are using their own ways of communicating through voice and gesture.

Among the Pond People, a classic by Carolyn Dillingham Pierson, introduces young children to creatures that live near or in ponds through a series of interesting stories including: The Biggest Frog Awakens, The Dance of the Sand-hill Cranes, The Young Minnow Who Would Not Eat When He Should, The Stickleback Father, The Careless Caddis Worm, The Tadpole Who Wanted to Be Grown-Up, The Runaway Water Spiders, The Slow Little Mud Turtle, The Dragon-Fly Children and the Snapping Turtle, The Snappy Snapping Turtle, The Clever Water-Adder, The Good Little Cranes Who Were Bad, The Oldest Dragon-Fly Nymph, The Eels' Moving-Night, The Crayfish Mother, Two Little Crayfishes Quarrel, The Lucky Mink, and The Playful Muskrats.

My Dear Little Friends:—You can never guess how much I have enjoyed writing these stories of the night-time, and I must tell you how I first came to think of doing so. I once knew a girl—and she was not a very little girl, either,—who was afraid of the dark. And I have known three boys who were as brave as could be by daylight, but who would not run on an errand alone after the lamps were lighted. They never seemed to think what a beautiful, restful, growing time the night is for plants and animals, and even for themselves. I thought that if they knew more of what happens between sunset and sunrise they would love the night as well as I.It may be that you will never see Bats flying freely, or find the Owls flapping silently among the trees without touching even a twig. Perhaps while these things are happening you must be snugly tucked in bed. But that is no reason why you should not be told what they do while you are dreaming. Before this, you know, I have told you more of what is done by daylight in meadow, forest, farmyard, and pond. It would be a very queer world if we could not know about things without seeing them for ourselves, and you may like to think, when you are going to sleep, that hundreds and thousands of tiny out-of-door people are turning, and stretching, and going to find their food. In the morning, when you are dressing in your sunshiny rooms, they are cuddling down for a good day's rest.I think I ought to tell you that I have not been alone when writing these stories. I have often been in the meadow and the forest at night, and have seen and heard many interesting things, but my good Cat, Silvertip, has known far more than I of the night-doings of the out-of-door people. He has been beside me at my desk, and although at times he has shut his eyes and taken Cat-naps while I wrote, there have been many other times when he has taken the pen right out of my hand. He has even tried running the typewriter with his dainty white paws, and he has gone over every story I have written. I do not say that he has written any himself, but you can see that he has been very careful what I wrote, and I have learned a great deal from him that I never knew before. He is a very good and clever Cat, and if you like these stories I am sure it must be partly because he had a paw in the writing of them.- Taken from "Among the Night People" written by Clara Dillingham Pierson

A charming series of nature stories for young children, including tales of red squirrels, great horned owls, rattlesnakes, and bats. No one can read these realistic conversations of the little creatures of the wood without being most tenderly drawn toward them. Within the context of each story children learn many entertaining facts about the lives and habits of these little people of the forest. Ideally suited for children ages 5 to 7.

Among the Forest People, a classic by Carolyn Dillingham Pierson, introduces young children to forest animals through a series of interesting stories including: The Black Spanish Chickens, The Wigglers Become Mosquitoes, The Naughty Raccoon Children, The Timid Little Ground Hog, The Young Raccoons Go to a Party, The Skunks and the Oven-Bird's Nest, The Lazy Cut-Worms, The Night-Moth's Party, The Lonely Old Bachelor Muskrat, The Greedy Red Fox, The Unfortunate Fireflies, The Kittens Come to the Forest, The Inquisitive Weasels, The Thrifty Deer-Mouse, and The Humming-Bird and the Hawk-Moth.

Among the Forest People, a classic by Carolyn Dillingham Pierson, introduces young children to forest animals through a series of interesting stories including: Mr. Red Squirrel Comes to Live in the Forest, Why Mr. Great Horned Owl Watched the Eggs, The Swaggering Crow, The Red-headed Woodpecker Children, The Night Moth with a Crooked Feeler , The Bees and the Kingbird, The Story of the Cowbirds Egg, Mrs. Mourning Dove’s Housekeeping, The Young Blue Jay Not Brave Enough to Be Afraid, The Red Squirrels Begin Housekeeping, The Biggest Little Rabbit Learns to See, The Little Bat Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed, A Swarm Leaves the Bee Tree, The Haughty Ground Hog, The Undecided Rattlesnake, The Quarrelsome Mole, The Wild Turkeys Come, The Travelers Go South, The Ruffed Grouse’s Story, and A Mild Day in Winter.