The Little Book of Values

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

This charming collection of poems and moral tales by well-known writers is reminiscent of easier, simpler times, and will help modern parents encourage real family values and old-fashioned morality. The book includes works by Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Isaac Watts, and many others. Illustrations throughout. Size A. 96 pp. ****Illus. throughout. 5 x 7 1/4.

87 pages, Hardcover

First published May 14, 1996

About the author

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (27 February, 1850 – 14 January, 1943) was an American writer. She often published as Laura E. Richards & wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children.

Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. She was named after his famous deaf-blind pupil Laura Bridgman. Her mother Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".