Marigold Garden

“Oh, Susan Blue, how do you do?” A walk to the meadow where the cowslips grow is only the beginning: soon little children are knocking at the Sun’s golden door and wondering who lives in a Green Tower at sea.

Kate Greenaway’s late-19th-century verses delight in the small adventures of childhood: a visit to Grandmamma, a noisy street show, a day at the mill, or a London girl longing for the country. With nimble rhymes and playful turns, they make a garden, a schoolroom, even a journey through the clouds feel full of possibility—and leave room for a gentle nudge when curiosity carries Peggy and Susie too far. What might these young dreamers find just beyond the next gate?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.