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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
Readers who enjoy short tales in one sitting, Southern settings, animals and rivers, family stories of the Civil War years, and the warm voice of a storyteller on a porch.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A boy dreams of battle
- Small kindnesses and a quiet surprise
- A turkey and a nearby barn fire
- Places and rivers across the South
- Alligators, an earthquake and hidden food
- Courage, divided families and a cunning cat
Who’s who
- JimmyA barefoot boy at Mountain Top Inn who dreams of riding beside General Lee and treats a stranger like a welcome guest.
- Jericho BobAn eight-year-old who has longed since he was four for all the turkey he can eat and finds an egg that might help.
- Julius Caesar FishJericho's nine-year-old friend in a tailcoat and fur cap, who keeps the turkey in a freight car and wants to cook it.
- 'Mazin' GraceAunt Melvy's short, sleepy, dancing daughter, who longs for her friend Nell's pink silk watermelon stockings.
- Martha FreddingA thirteen-year-old Texas girl who helps run her brother's saddle store and loves her horses, her calf and her friend Scylla.
- Harry MagillA thirteen-year-old in a half blue, half gray uniform who loves both his soldier brothers and will not choose between them.
- Uncle RemusAn old storyteller who weaves chair seats and tells a boy how Brother Wolf met a creature with no claws.
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Storie del Sud rinarrare dalla Rivista St. Nicholas
by Autori vari
Jericho Bob and his friend Julius Caesar Fish raise a turkey from an egg, and then quarrel over who will cook him.
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What did a small boy on a mountain porch dream about when he longed for his hero? This gathering of stories, sketches and true accounts from the American South was written for young readers of the magazine St. Nicholas.
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A boy dreams of battle
The first story, His Hero, opens on an October afternoon at Mountain Top Inn on the Blue Ridge. A small boy named Jimmy lies on the porch tickling an old hound and dreaming. He remembers soldiers marching past the gate and a battle watched from an oak.
In his dreams of battle he follows General Robert E. Lee, a man he has never seen. The day of the surrender was the saddest of his life.
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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 stories and true sketches of the American South for young readers. You meet a boy at a mountain inn, a pet turkey, a girl on a burning roof, a Texas rider, two brothers in opposite armies and a trickster tale.
Who wrote Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas?
Many authors wrote it. Contributors include Anna Eichberg King, Helen Lockwood Coffin, W. S. Harwood, F. H. Spearman, Alice Caldwell Hegan, Clarence B. Moore, Frank R. Stockton, Edward Marshall, M. A. Cassidy and Joel Chandler Harris.
Is Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas true or fiction?
It is a mix. The pieces on the Louisiana Purchase, rivers, alligators, St. Augustine, the Charleston earthquake and wartime hiding places are factual, while other pieces tell stories about children and animals.
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