Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to. The Oh, Hello everyone and welcome back to 1,000 classic short Stories and Tales.

We've received a bunch of great reviews lately, and I wanted to thank you all for sending them.

I do read them, and at the end of this this episode I'll share the latest ones.

This episode actually answers two recent reviews, one asking if I can read a few more classics

by women authors and one of our fans who listens with their young children was not too pleased that I didn't place a content warning for language on one of my episodes. But they didn't name which one. I had to rack my brain to guess which episode it was.

We're about as squeaky clean as you can be over here.

And I'm guessing it was the Hemingway piece we did.

And you know what? I should have put a content warning on that one. I am very very

proud that 1001 Classic Short Stories has a large family and homeschooler audience in

addition to our adult audience.

And now our story.

Clara Dillingham Pearson was an American children's author who published semi-naturalistic stories about animals in various settings.

She grew up in cold water Michigan, homeschooled by her parents before attending a kindergarten teacher

training program in Chicago.

She went on to start and became the superintendent of a teaching program at Alma College.

Pearson married a hardware store owner, had a child who died soon after birth, then adopted and raised

two boys in Stanton, Michigan. Her passion and understanding for children comes across in

her imaginative stories about animals with human characteristics.

Pearson wrote several story collections featuring animals in various settings,

such as, among the meadow people, among the farmyard people, and another favorite among the forest people,

from which this story comes.

The illustrations in her books, by the way, are terrific.

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