If when reading these rhymes and seeing the illustrations, there be questions asked and answers given which will leave with youth a remembrance of wonder or beauty, then a wish will have been fulfilled.
D.C.M.
Santa Fe 1972
Della Comer MacGillivray was born in 1887 in Thompkinsville, Kentucky. She attended schools in Kentucky, Tennessee and Sullins College, Virginia. At age 19, she and her family came to live in New Mexico. In 1907 she met Alan MacGillivray, a Scottish highlander, whom she married in 1910.
For many years they owned and lived on ranches in New Mexico and Colorado. Following her husband's death in 1922, she and her four children returned to New Mexico.
She always had an active interest in the world about her as shown in Skylarking.
Jean MacGillivray Seth
| YUCCA SONG | CRECHE |
| KISSES | HUMMINGBIRDS |
| WISH ON A STAR | REVEILLE | MIAOW | NEVER AND EVER |
| LILAC TIME | BY' AND BY' |
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Tales In Rhyme For the Youthful by Della Comer MacGillivray |
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