Florence L. Holbrook (1860-1932) was the author of The Book of Nature Myths (1902), Northland Heroes (1909), The Hiawatha Primer and Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades. "The subject-matter is of permanent value, culled from the folk-lore of the primitive races; the vocabulary, based upon that of the Hiawatha Primer, is increased gradually, and the new words and phrases will add to the child"s power of expression. The naïve explanations of the phenomena of nature given by the primitive races appeal to the child"s wonder about the same phenomena, and he is pleased and interested. "