and his father-in-law was Charles Henry Fletcher. Bryant died in Framingham, Massachusetts, on May 28, 1956. Selected works Books How to Tell Stories To Children, 1905 Stories to tell the littlest ones Epaminondas and His Auntie I Am an American, 1918 The Burning Rice Fields Fifty-one Stories to Tell to Children Best Stories to Tell to Children, 1912 Gordon and His Friends, 1924 Stories Humorous tales "The Story of Epaminondas" "The Little Jackal and the Alligator" "The Talkative Tortoise" "The Cat and the Parrot" Hero stories "Little Hero of Haarlem" Fables "The Wind and the Sun" Constructive stories "The Gingerbread Man" "Who Killed the Otter's Babies?" Fairy tales "The Adventures of the Little Field Mouse" "The Shoemaker and the Elves References Attribution External links 1873 births 1956 deaths American children's writers 20th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers Boston University alumni People from Melrose, Massachusetts Writers from Massachusetts Educators from Massachusetts Simmons University faculty American women academics