Boy with toy boat at pond, 1910

  

 I love this little fella, holding his toy boat, standing in front of a gorgeous pond with a beautiful tree's image reflected on the water. 

 Ruth Mary Hallock illustrated "Little Rhymes for Little Readers" (1910), the source of both images featured in this post. She is another of those authors who has a knack for depicting childhood scenes.

  This illustration shows a girl who is kneeling in the grass to get a better look at the spring flowers. 

  This particular image accompanied a super-short poem by Wilhelmina Seegmiller called "The Rail-Fence Corners":

In the rail-fence corners,

 In the sunny, happy May,

Flowers get together

To pass the time o' day

  (Now that poem is perfect for short attention spans!)