Mother's Nursery Tales

by Katharine Pyle

These are not new fairy tales. They are old ones gathered together, some from one country, and some from another, but all of them are old, old as the hills or the human race, as old as truth itself.

No one knows who first told them, nor where, nor when. They are fruits from the Tree of Wisdom, handed down through generations, and here retold by a master story-teller with simplicity and a directness which recall the unaffected earnest story-telling of those days of long ago.

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1918

About the author

Katharine Pyle was an American artist, poet, and children's writer. She was educated at the Women's Industrial School and the Drexel Institute, then studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York Art Students' League. She lived in Wilmington her whole life, except for several years in Boston and New York in the 1890s and 1900s.

Over the course of her career she wrote over 30 books and illustrated the books of others. Her art and poetry appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, The Circle, Shooter's Guide, The Saturday Evening Post, Metropolitan Magazine, Youth's Companion, Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Bazaar, and Harper's Young People. She co-authored a collection of 24 whimsical stories entitled The Wonder Clock (1888), with her brother Howard Pyle. Her art was also exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.

The Delaware Art Museum has a substantial collection of her manuscripts.

Her mother was author M.C. Pyle. Her sister-in-law was Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle.

Librarian note: This author's name is often misspelled as Katherine.