A WRITER FOR LITTLE TOTS
Elizabeth Gordon’s sympathetic understanding of the child mind has placed her in the front rank as a writer of children’s books. It is an art not to be acquired; but, when natural and inborn, children are the first to recognize it. This tribute they have paid to Elizabeth Gordon, a proof of which lies in the steadily growing demand for her books.
Here are four of her books a child would love to own. There are fourteen illustrations in color by well-known artists in each book. Prettily bound, 32 pages.
DOLLY AND MOLLY AT THE SEASHORE
DOLLY AND MOLLY AT THE CIRCUS
DOLLY AND MOLLY AND THE FARMERMAN
DOLLY AND MOLLY ON CHRISTMAS DAY
35 cents net each
DOTTY DOLLY’S TEA PARTY
By MARGUERITE L. and WILLARD C. WHEELER
With 28 illustrations in color by the authors
Square 16mo, boards. 80 pages. 50 cents net
Very young people, for whom the book is gotten up, cannot fail to enjoy the pranks of the Kewpie Dolly, the Toy Soldier, and the Cat, who are among the guests of the frolicsome party.
WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE OF JUVENILE
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR
Rand McNally & Company, Chicago
PADDY-PAWS
BY
GRACE COOLIDGE
With 40 illustrations in color by WARNER CARR
Square 12mo. Cloth, 80 pages. 65 cents net
No child can fail to follow with keenest delight these sketches of the happenings of four days in the life of a little prairie dog. In the story there is no perilous element, no fierceness or taking of life in fields or woods. The gentler side of animal life is pictured, yet the story is full of spirit and action. The illustrations show that command of technique and that originality which, combined, hold young readers spellbound.
THE LITTLE STRAWMAN
BY
CORA WORK HUNTER
With 6 illustrations in color by FRANCES BEEM
64 pages. 75 cents net
The Little Strawman suddenly finds himself alive when the wind blows a wisp of straw into a raspberry bush and caps it with a berry head. There is throughout the rhymed narrative the breezy call of the out-of-doors; the gurgling of brooks and the singing of birds unite with the sweet fragrance of clover bloom and violet bank. The imagination of the child is led out into varied channels, and a wholesome love for birds and flowers and animals is instilled.
WRITE FOR OUR CATALOGUE OF JUVENILE BOOKS ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR
Rand McNally & Company, Chicago
PRINCE TRIXIE
OR
BABY BROWNIE’S BIRTHDAY
BY
ELBRIDGE H. SABIN
With 8 illustrations in color and 30 in black and white
by FRANCES BEEM. 144 pages. $1.00 net
This is an attractive fairy tale. The king of the fairies sends his son, Trixie, in search of the rare gifts of Health, Work and Love, to be bestowed upon a baby girl. The ways that are found to convey the mite of a princeling to his far-away goals are so novel, and his adventures so spirited, that no child can fail to be delighted while reading them.
WONDER HILL
BY
A. NEELY HALL
With 10 illustrations in color and 47 in black and white
by NORMAN P. HALL. Cloth, 8vo. 288 pages. $1.20 net
Betty, aged six, wanting a playhouse, her brother Bobby determines to dig one in the out-of-doors. A few feet underground their experiences begin, and they find themselves, along with their pet monkey Utz, in a palace with revolving and dissolving walls. An imaginative child will revel in the book which holds one with the charm of “Alice in Wonderland.”
Rand McNally & Company, Chicago
THE BUTTERFLY BABIES’ BOOK
By ELIZABETH GORDON
With illustrations in color by M. T. (“PENNY”) ROSS
80 pages. Boxed. $1.00 net.
The idea of the verses, in such simple form that they can easily be committed to memory, is to instruct the child in butterfly lore, near which shrubs, flowers or trees each is likely to be found, etc. The butterflies, beautified with baby faces and figures, seem to flit from page to page. To children they will be both an inspiration and a joy.
THE FLOWER BABIES’ BOOK
By MRS. WALTER DILL SCOTT
With illustrations in color by M. T. (“PENNY”) ROSS
80 pages. Boxed. $1.00 net.
In these dainty and novel pictures, beautifully printed in art colors, exquisite baby faces appear in the flowers. Each verse contains its own plea for preservation—the rose, the lily, the daisy, and others—and will make a lasting impression on the child’s mind.