Home again, home again,
Thru the sunshine or the rain!
Tis the dearest place to stay
After you have played all day

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL PAGE COLORED AND BLACK & WHITE PICTURES

Come with me, the little latch
Hangs outside the Bramble Patch.
You will find within this book,
If you will but take a look,
All the happy, care-free ways
Of your golden childhood days.

In the Kingdom of Little Animals every child is at home. That a dog can talk to his friends, that a rabbit may wear knickers or a little bird climb up a tiny stair inside a hollow tree trunk seem quite natural. Every child is willing to take my hand and step over the border into Rabbit Country.

Come, you older ones, turn back the clock. Don’t you long for a moment to be once more in Make-Believe Land? Surely you will if you read the Little Jack Rabbit Books. You again will see yourself in the wistful eyes of the youngster at your knee as he listens to Yours for a story, David Cory, The Jack Rabbit Man.In the big blue book Little Jack Rabbit wears a blue necktie. Little Jack Rabbit's big blue book Bunny Tale 1 The Wedding

Was someone knocking on the door of Uncle Lucky's little white house on the corner of Lettuce Avenue and Carrot St., Rabbitville, U.S.A.? Well, I guess yes, three times. Maybe somebody has been knocking ever since Bobbie Redvest told me that a bad attack of rheumatism prevents the dear old gentleman rabbit from hearing unpleasant news. Well, anyway, when Uncle Lucky opened the door who do you think was standing on the mat? You'd never guess, not even if I told you he wore rubber boots and held a green umbrella in his hand. It was Daddy Longlegs—yes, sir, that's who it was.

"Goodness gracious meebus!" exclaimed the old gentleman rabbit, "are you wet?"

"Soaked to the skin," replied the shivering, rubber-booted, long-legged insect. "Let me sit by the kitchen stove and warm myself. Maybe I'll get dry in an hour or so."

"Come right in!" cried dear, kind Uncle Lucky, leading the way into the kitchen where little Miss Mousie, the dear old gentleman rabbit's tiny housekeeper, was 

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