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Title: The Blue Bird for Children
The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness

Author: Georgette Leblanc

Editor: Frederick Orville Perkins

Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Release Date: February 4, 2009 [EBook #27991]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: The Land of Memory]

THE . BLUE . BIRD
[Illustration: Bluebird] FOR CHILDREN [Illustration: Bluebird]

THE . WONDERFUL . ADVENTURES
OF . TYLTYL . AND . MYTYL . IN
SEARCH . OF . HAPPINESS

BY
GEORGETTE LEBLANC
[MADAME MAURICE MAETERLINCK]

EDITED AND ARRANGED FOR SCHOOLS
BY
FREDERICK ORVILLE PERKINS

TRANSLATED BY
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

[Illustration: Publisher Logo]

SILVER . BURDETT & COMPANY
BOSTON . NEW YORK . CHICAGO . ATLANTA
DALLAS . SAN FRANCISCO

COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1914
BY SILVER, BURDETT & COMPANY

This School Edition of The Blue
Bird for Children is affectionately
dedicated to the School Children
of America

Georgette Leblanc
(Madame Maurice Maeterlinck)

_To The Teacher_

"The Blue Bird, inhabitant of the
_Pays Bleu_, the fabulous blue country
of our dreams is an ancient symbol
in the folk lore of Lorraine and
stands for happiness."

One of the strongest pieces of imaginative writing for children that
the past decade has produced and one of the most delicate and
beautiful of all times, is "The Blue Bird," by Maurice Maeterlinck,
written as a play, and very successfully produced on the stage.

Georgette Leblanc (Mad