Most Popular Books by Edith Thacher Hurd

The adventure of a little boy, Adam, at the St. George''s Day Fair, in colonial times. The story is set in Williamsburg, Virginia

Everyone liked to travel on Old Silversides, the long silvery bus that shot like a streak through the sunshine, and Ben, the bus driver, thought no bus in the entire fleet compared with his.

Suzie''s nurse is always in a hurry, with calamitous results, until Suzie and her Uncle George find a way to slow her down.

A maritime history of the West Coast, describing the first extensive shipping trade stimulated by the Gold Rush population, ships built to carry California wheat to Europe, and other schooners, whalers, lime juicers and steamers which opened the West.

A little city dog dreams of sunny summers in the country ''til his dreams come true.

The animals hear of the birth of the Christ Child and come to visit Him.

Wilkie starts out painting a picture of a beautiful worl world but keeps adding so many people and cities that soon his world is not fit to live in.

A cat hides his witch''s hat, wand and broomstick, because she cast so many spells, but when Halloween comes he can''t find them again.

Catfish attempts to rescue Miss Pan-Dora Many Pennies from her kidnappers, but things look dim when they tie him to the railroad track.

The valley has its beginnings in rain falling on the mountain; after many years it is a green valley with a pond, but a poor farmer changes it into a dust bowl before a good farmer comes to make it green again.

Johnny had a bad cold and the medicine he took as well as the dreams he had were terrible.

The old carpenter makes Windy a willow whistle that calls his dog, talks to the birds, startles the river frogs, and sounds like the wind.

In a story about a truck driver taking his heavily loaded trailer truck over the mountain on a stormy night, small [children] will get an idea of the trucking business and some of the kinds of trucks used for transporting goods."