She is the Dickens of the nursery, and we do not hesitate to say develops the rarest sort of genius in the specialty of depicting smart little children."-- _Hartford Post_.
_LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON_.
COPYRIGHT, 1834, BY LEE & SHEPARD.
* * * * * [Illustration: Portrait of Sophie May (Rebecca Sophia Clarke)] The children will not be left without healthful entertainment and kindly instruction so long as SOPHIE MAY (Miss Rebecca S.Clarke) lives and wields her graceful pen in their behalf.

MISS CLARKE has made a close and loving study of childhood, and she is almost idolized by the crowd of 'nephews and nieces' who claim her as aunt.
Nothing to us can ever be quite so delightfully charming as were the 'Dotty Dimple' and the 'Little Prudy' books to our youthful imaginations, but we have no doubt the little folks of to-day will find the story of 'Flaxie Frizzle' and her young friends just as fascinating.
There is a sprightliness about all of MISS CLARKE'S books that attracts the young, and their purity, their absolute _cleanliness_, renders them invaluable in the eyes of parents and all who are interested in the welfare of children."-- _Morning Star_.
"Genius comes in with 'Little Prudy.' Compared with her, all other book-children are cold creations of literature; she alone is the real thing.

All the quaintness of children, its originality, its tenderness and its teasing, is infinite uncommon drollery, the serious earnestness of its fun, the fun of its seriousness, the naturalness of its plays, and the delicious oddity of its progress, all these united for dear Little Prudy to embody them."-- _North American Review_.
SPECIMEN CUT TO "LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES." [Illustration: PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.] "'My, what a fascinating creature,' said the Man in the Moon, making an eye-glass with his thumb and fore-finger, and gazing at the lady boarder.

'Are you a widow woman ?'" * * * * * LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.
"Grandmother Parlen when a little girl is the subject.

Of course that was ever so long ago, when there were no lucifer matches, and steel and tinder were used to light fires; when soda and saleratus had never been heard of, but people made their pearl ash by soaking burnt crackers in water; when the dressmaker and the tailor and the shoemaker went from house to house twice a year to make the dresses and coats of the family."-- _Transcript_.
* * * * * LITTLE GRANDFATHER.
"The story of Grandfather Parlen's little boy life, of the days of knee breeches and cocked hats, full of odd incidents, queer and quaint sayings, and the customs of 'ye olden time.' These stories of SOPHIE MAY'S are so charmingly written that older folks may well amuse themselves by reading them.