Jasmine Stone Van Dresser

Jasmine Stone Van Dresser was an American writer of children's books, born in 1878. She was the daughter of writer Margaret M. Barbour Stone, and she married the artist William Van Dresser, who illustrated some of her books.

Her work includes How to Find Happyland (1907), The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale; and The Golden Harvest, and Gibby of Clamshell Alley (1916). The surviving record that is easiest to confirm today shows her as a storyteller for children whose books were published in the early 1900s and continued to circulate through libraries and reprints.

Although detailed biographical information appears to be limited, her books suggest a writer drawn to kindness, wonder, and the small adventures that matter deeply in a child's world. She remains of interest mainly through these charming children's stories and their place in early American juvenile literature.