Other editions of book The Swiss Twins

Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately set to work making sketches and preparing the idea for presentation. The publisher came to dinner at their house the next evening and she showed him the idea. His response was immediate “go ahead and write it, and I want it”. That book was The Dutch Twins, the first in what became a long running and wildly popular series. Here we publish another in that series 'The Swiss Twins'.

The Swiss twins follows the Shepardic lifestyle of the Swiss twins family. Meet Leneli and Seppi as they learn to be shepherds and have adventures together in the Alps. They experience a landslide and have to navigate their way home through the Mountains. Descriptive language of the natural beauty of Switzerland. A historical children’s classic set in the early 1900’s The story has added enjoyment because of imaginative illustrations done by the author. The 13th Book in the “Twins” Series. Illustrated

The Swiss twins follows the Shepardic lifestyle of the Swiss twins family. Meet Leneli and Seppi as they learn to be shepherds and have adventures together in the Alps. They experience a landslide and have to navigate their way home through the Mountains. Descriptive language of the natural beauty of Switzerland. A historical children’s classic set in the early 1900’s The story has added enjoyment because of imaginative illustrations done by the author. The 13th Book in the “Twins” Series. Illustrated

CONTENTS I. THE RESPONSIBLE CUCKOO II. THE TWINS LEARN A NEW TRADE in. A MOUNTAIN STORM IV. THE LONELY HERDSMAN V. THE PASS VI. NEW FRIENDS AND OLDTHE RESPONSIBLE CUCKOO HIGH on the kitchen wall of an old farm house on a mountain-side in Switzerland there hangs a tiny wooden clock. In the tiny wooden clock there lives a tiny wooden cuckoo, and every hour he hops out of his tiny wooden door, takes a look about to see what is going on in the world, shouts out the time of day, and pops back again into his little dark house, there to wait and tick away the minutes until it is time once more to tell the hour. Late one spring afternoon, just as the sun was sinking out of sight, lighting up the snow-capped mountains with beautiful colors and sending long shafts of golden light across the valleys, the cuckoo woke with a start.

Lucy Fitch Perkins (July 12, 1865 - March 18, 1937) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for Dutch Twins (1911) and its sequels, the Twins series.Lucy Fitch was born on July 12, 1865 in Maples, Indiana, to Appleton Howe and Elizabeth (Bennett) Fitch. Her father was a teacher who moved to Maples to co-found a barrel stave factory. Her mother was a teacher. Fitch moved with her mother to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to live with her father's patents as her father tried to recover from a financial setback from the Panic of 1873. Unhappy with the Hopkinton schools, the family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1879.Fitch graduated from high school in 1883 and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the Museum of Fine Arts School. She met Dwight H. Perkins in her third year at the school. Fitch started to write children's fiction on a freelance basis for Young Folks. She graduated in 1886 and took a job as an illustrator for the Prang Educational Company of Boston. A year later, she followed Walter Scott Perry to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, to become his assistant. Fitch left on August 18, 1891, to marry Perkins and move to Chicago, Illinois.

In The Swiss Twins, not only are children exposed to language and culture from a different era; they are exposed to Swiss culture! Oftentimes we hand our youth historical books to read which are based on our nation's history not the cultures of other nations from times past. The Swiss Twins centers around a Swiss family of six; a Mother, Father, older brother, the twins, and a baby sister. Watch your child's interest grow and peak as they read the tales of these Swiss twins growing up in a Swiss goat-herding family. Your child will read about dedication, perseverance, and obedience being demonstrated from the twins.