Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Please, Mr. Bear, Will You Have a Cake? (1898)

 
Annis Lennoys, “Chinese Fairy Tales for Young and Old: No. 3—The Children Who Fed the Bear of Shang-te,”  Illustrated by Lawson Wood, Pearson’s Magazine 5 (January–June 1898): 619.

Monday, February 10, 2020

The Birds Were Asleep, Except for Old Solomon Caw (1912)

“Peter Pan,” illustrated by Frederick Richardson. Harriet Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free, Second Reader, Adapted and Graded (Chicago: Row, Peterson, and Co., 1912),  173.

Friday, December 13, 2019

Fairies—Truly Fairies, Midst the Trees (1908)

Maude Morse Robin, “At the End of the Moonlight Way,” Illustration by A.M. Upjohn, Good Housekeeping 47 (August 1908): 159.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Aunt Carrie Winds the Clock (1877)

“Aunt Carrie Winds the Clock,” St. Nicholas IV (March 1877): back cover.

Monday, December 9, 2019

A Game of Croquet without Rules (1885)

Peter Newell. “A Game of Croquet without Rules,” Harper’s Young People VI (June 30, 1885): 552.

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Up, Up, My Hounds, ’Tis Lillie Comes (1865)

Harold King, “The Golden Wedding in the Workhouse,” Once a Week, an Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & Popular Information 1 (December 1, 1865):  34.

Friday, December 6, 2019

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Curly-Locks Hardly Knew What to Make of It (1905)

Millicent Burbridge, “Curly Locks: A Story for Young and Old,” The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 1301.

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Here Are Two Marbles for Eyes (1906)


Clarence Franklin Carroll and Sarah Catherine Brooks, The Brooks Primer (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906), 63.

Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Indian Dog Train Was Used When the Snow Was Too Deep or Too Soft to Uphold Horses (1915)

Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, Together with a Narrative of the Human Experiences and Changing Social Conditions That Accompanied This Economic Conquest of the Continent  (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), 54.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Jan Went Through the Ice into the Black Water (1918)

Howard R. Garis,  The Curlytops Snowed In or Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds, Illustration by Julia Greene (New York: Cupples and Leon Company, 1918), 108.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Then, Wearily and Drearily / Across the Moorland Wild, / Half Numb’d With Frost (Her Pathway Lost) / Paced on the Wilder’d Child (1855)

Jane Krewdsen, “Katie Lee: A Scotch Story,” Aunt Jane’s Verses for Children (Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1855), 12.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

In the Sketch Below, the Different Degrees of Distance Have Been Well Expressed (1905)

Hugo B. Froelich and Bonnie E. Snow, “The World in White,” Text Books of Art Education, Book VI (New York: The Prang Educational Company, 1905), 8.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

They Were as Full of Life and Spirits as if There No Such Thing as Suffering in the World (1894)

M.E. Braddon, The Christmas Hirelings, Illustrated by F.H. Townsend (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, & Kent, 1894), 215.

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Saturday, December 30, 2017

“That’s Every Bit of Wood There Is,” He Quavered (1885)

Ada Carleton Stoddard, “Snowed-In,” Harper’s Young People 6 (January 27, 1885): 200.

Thursday, December 28, 2017