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Caleb in the Country: A Classic Children's Story of Country Life, Family, and Moral Learning
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515420729
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jacob Abbott's Caleb in the Country is a classic nineteenth-century children's story of country life, moral learning, family care, and childhood curiosity. Following young Caleb away from town and into a rural setting shaped by nature, household lessons, simple pleasures, and gentle instruction, the book presents a world in which everyday incidents become opportunities for patience, observation, kindness, obedience, and practical understanding. Abbott's style is calm, clear, and deliberately suited to young readers, combining story, instruction, and domestic realism in the manner that made his children's books widely read in the nineteenth century.
First published in 1839 as part of Abbott's Jonas-related children's stories, Caleb in the Country belongs to the early tradition of American juvenile fiction, where moral education, family life, country settings, Christian conduct, and childhood experience were closely joined. Project Gutenberg identifies the book's subjects as Christian life, country life, and grandmothers in juvenile fiction, which fits its place as a gentle instructional story rather than a mystery or adventure series title. Readers interested in classic children's literature, early American juvenile fiction, country life stories, moral tales, family-centred fiction, and the history of children's books will find in Abbott's work a representative example of nineteenth-century writing for young readers.
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