Christmas Every Day and Other Stories, William Dean Howells

This book belongs to childrens literature and is one of notable books of every child should know series. The stories or fairy tales belong to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his pecial literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. In ultimate importance it outranks the arithmetic, the grammar, the geography, the manuals of science; for without the aid of the imagination none of these books is really comprehensible.

This book includes the following stories: Christmas every day -- Turkeys turning the tables -- The pony engine and the Pacific express -- The pumpkin-glory -- Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly.