The Sandman: More Farm Stories

by William John Hopkins, Ada C. Williamson (Illustrator)

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.

150 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Hopkins, William John 1863-1926
Hopkins, John, 1863-1926
Hopkins, William J.

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kids love these simple repetitive stories. Interesting enough to hold their interest and yet boring enough to lull them to sleep.