Mrs. Almira Louisa Corey Frink

Mrs. Almira Louisa Corey Frink appears in library and public-domain book records as the author of Baby-Land, a collection of verse centered on babies, family life, and the gentle rituals of the nursery. Project Gutenberg and other catalog sources also connect her with the pen name Wild-Bird.

Because surviving biographical information is very limited, not much can be confirmed about her life beyond her published work and how she is listed in historical catalogs. What does come through clearly is her writing style: tender, musical, and closely attuned to the everyday wonder of childhood.

For listeners interested in overlooked voices from the past, Frink offers a small but memorable glimpse of domestic poetry from an earlier era—simple, affectionate, and written to comfort, entertain, and delight young children and the adults reading to them.