Intended to please her American readers, the main animal characters in the book are indigenous to North America: grey squirrels, chipmunks, and a "large bear". The inclusion of yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella, the birds which sing "Little bita bread and-nocheese!") was a mistake, as their range includes Europe and much of Asia but not America. The first two impressions are indistinguishable. Original brown boards, titles to spine and front board white, pictorial label to front cover, pictorial endpapers. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front pastedown ‘Helen Maud Ames 1911’, otherwise pages are nice and clean, VG.
