Books with title The Sandman: More Farm Stories

Twenty-one more stories about Little John working and playing on the farm, engaged in such activities as tending animals, growing corn, and chopping wood, or fishing, skating, and sledding. Second volume in a series of a stories created by a father to induce a certain little boy to go to sleep. For nearly three years his one listener heard them repeated many times, and his interest never flagged. As the farm stories slowly grew in number, eventually to fill two volumes, they entirely displaced the other stories, and that farm became as real in the mind of his listener as it was in fact when little John was driving the cows or planting the corn in the early part of the nineteenth century. Suitable for ages 5 and up.

Twenty-one more stories about Little John working and playing on the farm, engaged in such activities as tending animals, growing corn, and chopping wood, or fishing, skating, and sledding. Second volume in a series of a stories created by a father to induce a certain little boy to go to sleep. For nearly three years his one listener heard them repeated many times, and his interest never flagged. As the farm stories slowly grew in number, eventually to fill two volumes, they entirely displaced the other stories, and that farm became as real in the mind of his listener as it was in fact when little John was driving the cows or planting the corn in the early part of the nineteenth century. Later came two more volumes about a ship and its voyages at sea, and a final volume on house building. Ideal for ages 5 to 7.

Twenty-one stories of the everyday doings of Little John around the farm: fetching water, grinding corn, making cider, growing wheat, boiling maple syrup, and so on. Numerous black and white illustrations enliven the text. First volume in a series of a stories created by a father to induce a certain little boy to go to sleep. For nearly three years his one listener heard them repeated many times, and his interest never flagged. As the farm stories slowly grew in number, eventually to fill two volumes, they entirely displaced the other stories, and that farm became as real in the mind of his listener as it was in fact when little John was driving the cows or planting the corn in the early part of the nineteenth century. Later came two more volumes about a ship and its voyages at sea, and a final volume on house building. Ideal for ages 5 to 7.

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The Sandman's farm stories by William Hopkins consists of 21 stories of a little boy around the farm, including such everyday tasks as grinding corn, making cider, fetching water, growing wheat, and boiling maple syrup. Many black and white illustrations are also included, although they are scanned from an out-of-print book so they are not top-notch in terms of print quality. The Sandman series by William Hopkins was written to help his young son go to sleep. Although the series starts with the farm, later volumes told stories about a ship and its voyages at sea, while another told about building a house.

These delightful children’s stories are timeless and will be enjoyed by every generation! Anita Brown was born on December 26, 1912 in Leland, Illinois. She attended and received her teaching degree from Northern Illinois University in 1932. She started her teaching career in a one room rural school house near Oregon, Illinois. Her duties included teaching grades one through twelve, as well as cooking lunch and cleaning the school. Anita met and married Grantford Brown in 1941. Soon after World War II started, he left his new bride at home and went to war in the South Pacific, leaving her at home to continue her teaching career. While she was pregnant with her son Ted in 1953, she started writing Stories of the Sandman for him, to help him cope with the trials of everyday life. She decided to write them in fairy tale form, so he might understand the lessons within them. She would sit up late at night in a closet, writing these stories by flashlight, so she would not disturb the rest of the family. Anita passed away in 1986 hoping that the Stories of the Sandman might someday be published. These delightful children’s stories are timeless and will be enjoyed by every generation!