This little volume is dedicated to all the hardworking mothers. It presents beautiful thoughts about childhood and motherhood bringing pleasure to everyone who reads it. It comprises three hundred sixty-six verses titled the days of a year. This delightful book contains works by some of the great thinkers of the time. It includes selections from the writings of Lucy Larcom, Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell, Celia Thaxter, and Edith Thomas.