Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below. The transcriber produced the cover image from the original, and hereby assigns it to the public domain.
Several illustrations were moved from within paragraphs to between nearby paragraphs. This results in some slight inaccuracy in the page references given in the “The Pictures”—the [List] of Illustrations—for the images originally facing pages 68 and 94. The [illustration] originally printed across facing pages 70 and 71 is marked herein as two illustrations, with a caption divided between the two.
Original page images are available from archive.org—search for “peterpoodletoyma00brad”. Scanned images of two pages, including the frontispiece [The Banquet], were missing from the archive.org files; these two images were provided by the Univ. of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities, Children’s Literature Research Collections.
Page [16]. Right quotation mark was inserted after ‘knew about Toyville.’.
Page [17]. Left quotation mark inserted before ‘Sometimes boys and girls’.
Page [26]. Left quotation mark was removed from the paragraph starting: ‘Tommy assisted’.
Page [31]. Right quotation mark was inserted after ‘name of Grumbletown.’.
Page [32]. Right quotation mark was inserted after ‘brigands or bandits.’.
Page [36]. Right quotation mark was inserted after ‘city of Toyville.’.
Page [44]. Right quotation mark was inserted after ‘least until eight.’.