light-bird

Updated: May 11, 2025

Chickens, pigeons and farmyard animals; the homely pussy cat or canary bird; the workers to whom the child is indebted, farmer, baker, miner, builder or carpenter; the sun, the rain, the rainbow and the "light-bird" such ideas were chosen as suitable centres, and stories and songs, games and handwork clustered round. What was the reason for this binding of things together?

E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray - The Child under Eight