The Child’s World

Blog 3326 – 12.11.2024

The Child’s World

A door to door salesman knocked on our door in the mid-nineteenth fifties when my brother and I were wee lads and convinced my mother to purchase the above pictured set of books that I am quite certain that my parents could ill afford at the time. Volume One, Stories of Childhood, was the only one that my brother and I cared very much about. There was one particular story that we begged our mother to read us over and over again and not just at Christmas time, but all throughout the year.

Some years ago when I was recording myself reading children’s books for my dear Wisconsin friend Deb’s granddaughter Amelia I came across a beautiful hardbound copy of the story that my brother and I loved hearing read as children. It is called Mr. Dog’s Christmas at the Hollow Tree Inn. Below I have attached a link where you can hear me reading it if you are a mind to or so you can share it with a special child in your life if you desire.

Someday when my granddaughter Emma Grace is older, she is fifteen months old now, I hope to read this story to her and to be sure that she has a copy so she can beg her parents to read it to her over and over again. I will be sure they have the link below for her too so she can always hear Papa White reading it to her any time she likes.