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Title: All About Johnnie Jones

Author: Carolyn Verhoeff

Release Date: March 3, 2005 [EBook #15241]

Language: English

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All About Johnnie Jones

[Illustration: Johnnie Jones]

_All About_ JOHNNIE JONES

BY

Carolyn Verhoeff

ILLUSTRATED BY

Diantha W. Horne

SEVENTH EDITION

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_Published by_
Milton Bradley Company
SPRINGFIELD :: MASSACHUSETTS

Copyright, 1907, by
MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

In Loving Memory
_of_
_The_ Beautiful Life _of One_ Little Child
=Meldrum Adams Hartwell=
(1891-1896)
These Stories are Dedicated
_to_
All Little Children

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These stories have been written with but one object, to give
pleasure to little children, while helping them to realize,
in so far as they are able, the highest ideals of childhood.

CAROLYN VERHOEFF

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INTRODUCTION

It gives me sincere pleasure to introduce to mothers and kindergartners
a pioneer writer in the unexplored field of simple, realistic stories
for little children.

Miss Verhoeff is a trained kindergartner who has brought to her
profession a college training as well as a true devotion to children.

It was in one of the free kindergartens situated in the less fortunate
localities of Louisville that the stories of Johnnie Jones came into
being, and grew in response to the demand of the li