This charming book includes moral lessons presented in the form of entertaining stories, poems, and games, making it a pioneer in the genre of children's educational books.

In the first of these two books an orphan girl grows up to become a wise and virtuous schoolmistress and the second offers a series of loosely connected tales set within the framework of a visit to the fair and including "Puss in Boots" and ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

The story popularized the phrase and quot;goody two-shoes and quot; as a descriptor for an excessively virtuous person or do-gooder. Goody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story.