True stories for young children
By: by the author of "Chickseed without chickweed," "Bible stories," "The favourite story book," "Mamma's stories of animals," &c. &c. &c
Edition: Second edtion.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Darton & Company
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Children; Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800; Animals; Indians of North America; Virtue; School children; Children's stories
Notes: Date attributed by Bodleian Library catalogue.

Author of "Chickseed without chickweed" is Mary Leathley.

Each chapter separately paginated in groups of 16 pages each.

Also issued in two separate parts, with contents page reprinted for parts I (pages 1-113) and II (pages 129-256).

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: pt. I: The best way to spend a penny; title: The two dogs; title: A visit to the zoological gardens; title: Do as you are bid; title: Peace and war; title: The ship on fire; title: The Russian exiles; title: The races; title: pt. II: The castle and its true owners; title: The grateful dog; title: The gathering for peace; title: The young princes who were killed in the Tower; title: The blue-coat boys; title: King Richard's death; title: The little patriots; title: Penn's treaty with the Indians.