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A promise, a fear, a friend in need: how does a child find the courage to do what is right?
Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas brings together short tales by various authors, with young people at their center. Farms, small towns, rivers, porches and country roads form their world. Here, children face tests both small and large, among the people and places they know.
Drawn from St. Nicholas, the American children's magazine, this collection explores courage, childhood and family life. Its stories turn toward telling the truth, helping a friend and keeping a difficult promise. Along the way, they offer a glimpse of how writers of another age picture the South and speak to young readers.
What you’ll discover
- Courage in ordinary moments Explore the bravery of facing a fear or keeping a promise when it is hard.
- A Southern setting Follow country roads past farms and small towns, through the South these writers picture.
- Childhood close to home Meet young people at play, at work and among parents, grandparents, siblings and neighbors.
- Family at the heart Discover tales that place family ties alongside the small and large tests of childhood.
- A magazine's storytelling world Sample the short, clear children's fiction that gives St. Nicholas its place in this collection.
Who will love it
You will love this if you enjoy short tales for reading aloud, brave children, talking animals, Civil War family stories, and lively sketches of Southern places.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A boy meets a stranger on a porch
- Two friends raise a turkey and quarrel
- A small nation buys a vast territory
- Three Southern places come alive
- Rivers and reptiles reveal a strange country
- Two girls face danger with courage
- War comes into homes and hiding places
- Voice and kindness hold the volume together
Who’s who
- JimmyA small boy at Mountain Top Inn who has long imagined following General Lee into battle.
- Jericho BobAn eight-year-old boy who has always wanted his fill of turkey and raises one with his friend.
- Julius Caesar FishJericho's nine-year-old friend, who keeps the turkey in a freight car and wants to cook it himself.
- 'Mazin GraceAunt Melvy's eighth daughter, who longs to wear the pink silk watermelon stockings.
- Martha FreddingA thirteen-year-old Texas girl who helps her brother in the saddle store and loves her horses and calf.
- ScyllaThe preacher's daughter, Martha's close friend, who hopes to regain the use of her right side.
- Harry MagillA thirteen-year-old boy who wears a half blue, half gray uniform because he has a brother in each army.
- Uncle RemusAn old storyteller who weaves chair seats and tells a little boy about Brother Wolf.
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Histoires du Sud racontées de nouveau dans Saint Nicholas
A barefoot boy on a Blue Ridge porch dreams of General Lee, then a stranger rides up on a gray horse.
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In short
It is October 1865, and a barefoot boy named Jimmy lies on the porch of a mountain inn, dreaming of riding behind General Robert E. Lee.
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A boy meets a stranger on a porch
The collection opens with His Hero, set in October 1865, seven months after the war ends. Jimmy, a small barefoot boy, lies on the porch of Mountain Top Inn in the Blue Ridge. He dreams of riding behind General Robert E. Lee, a man he has never seen.
His memories come one by one. Soldiers march past to music while his mother's eyes fill with tears. Snow drifts around the dead at Marye's Heights. The glory he loves and the grief he has seen sit side by side in his mind.
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Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/southern-stories-retold-from-st-nicholas.
Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/southern-stories-retold-from-st-nicholas
Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/southern-stories-retold-from-st-nicholas.
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What is Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas about?
It gathers fifteen short pieces first printed in a children's magazine. Some are stories about brave or funny children, such as Jimmy, Jericho Bob and Martha. Others describe places, rivers, animals and events across the American South.
Who is the stranger in His Hero?
A quiet rider arrives at Mountain Top Inn in October 1865 on a big gray horse. Jimmy, a boy who dreams of a famous general, treats him kindly without knowing who he is, and brass initials on a saddle offer a clue.
Are the pieces true stories?
The collection mixes fiction and fact. The Louisiana Purchase, St. Augustine, the Charleston earthquake, rivers and alligators are true accounts, while Jericho Bob, Locoed and the Uncle Remus tale are made-up stories written for young readers.
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