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Title:
Floyd's Flowers; Or, Duty and Beauty for Colored Children
Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience: Simple, Amusing, Elevating
Note: Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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Summary: "Floyd's Flowers; Or, Duty and Beauty for Colored Children" by Silas Xavier Floyd is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book is designed to enlighten and elevate young readers, particularly colored children in the South, through various narratives aimed at instilling moral values and lessons. Each story tackles themes such as duty, personal responsibility, and the beauty of character, featuring relatable young characters who navigate lessons in honesty, hard work, and kindness. At the start of the book, the reader is introduced to several young characters in a school setting. In a charming scene, a new girl named Bertha impresses her classmates and teacher with her innocent understanding of love, demonstrating that true affection can be expressed in thoughtful actions rather than mere words. This sets the tone for the themes of the stories to follow, which range from reflections on luck and work ethics to the importance of family, community, and selflessness, encouraging young readers to develop a positive and virtuous outlook on life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923
Illustrator: Adams, John Henry, 1880-1944
EBook No.: 60109
Published: Aug 16, 2019
Downloads: 109
Language: English
Subject: Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Subject: Children's stories
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title:
Floyd's Flowers; Or, Duty and Beauty for Colored Children
Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience: Simple, Amusing, Elevating
Note: Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Credits:
Produced by Richard Tonsing, hekula03, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http:
//www.pgdp.net
(This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive)
Summary: "Floyd's Flowers; Or, Duty and Beauty for Colored Children" by Silas Xavier Floyd is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book is designed to enlighten and elevate young readers, particularly colored children in the South, through various narratives aimed at instilling moral values and lessons. Each story tackles themes such as duty, personal responsibility, and the beauty of character, featuring relatable young characters who navigate lessons in honesty, hard work, and kindness. At the start of the book, the reader is introduced to several young characters in a school setting. In a charming scene, a new girl named Bertha impresses her classmates and teacher with her innocent understanding of love, demonstrating that true affection can be expressed in thoughtful actions rather than mere words. This sets the tone for the themes of the stories to follow, which range from reflections on luck and work ethics to the importance of family, community, and selflessness, encouraging young readers to develop a positive and virtuous outlook on life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Floyd, Silas Xavier, 1869-1923
Illustrator: Adams, John Henry, 1880-1944
EBook No.: 60109
Published: Aug 16, 2019
Downloads: 109
Language: English
Subject: Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Subject: Children's stories
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.