Bryan is STALKING ME!
Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:47:14 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> Mike's book is admittedly a children's book. I have no reason to read
>> one, although I do own a children's "reader" that was used by my father
>> and his older brother and their older syster before. They all wrote
>> their names inside as it was handed down.
>>
>> 'Sleepy Time Tales: Story Hour' by Coe and Christie. Published in 1923.
>> It was deemed a 2nd grade "reader". Fairy Tales, many from the
>> Brother's Grimm. Nice printed colour plates, hand drawn. When I was a
>> kid my Dad gave me a copy of another old book, 'The Tales of Fatty Coon'
>> by Arthur Scott Bailey. Copyright 1915. Nice colour plates/drawings.
>> 'Fatty Coon' was akin to the British "B'rer Rabbit". Always getting
>> into mischief with his raccoon friends trying to hide from the farmers
>> while raiding the gardens. He wore a smart little vest and carried a
>> pocket watch. LOL
>>
>> I'm quoting from the end of this 'Fatty Coon' book now. "A word to
>> Grown Ups: To you, parents, guardians, teachers and all other upon whom
>> devolves the supremely important responsibility of directing the early
>> years of childhood development, this series of 'Tuck-Me-In Tales' which
>> scetch such vivid and delightful scenes of the vibrant life of the
>> meadow and woodland should have tremendous appeal. In this collection
>> of stories you will find prescicely the sort of healthy, imanaginative
>> entertainment that is an essentil in stimulating thought-germs in the
>> child mind. Merely from the standpoint of their desireability for
>> helping the growing tot to pass an idle half hour, any one of these
>> volumes would be worth your while. BUT the author had something further
>> than that in mind. He has, with simplicity and grace, worthy of high
>> commendation, sought to convey a two-fold lesson throughout the entire
>> series, the first based upon natural history and the second upon the
>> elemetary principles of living which should be made clear to every child
>> at the earliest age of understanding."
>>
>> It goes on. There are many other little stories in this 'Fatty Coon'
>> book. At the back of the book is a short 'Tale of Jolly Robin',
>> Tale of Betsy Butterfly', 'Buster Bumblebee' (he wasn't writing about
>> canned tuna!) and 'Tale of Freddie Firefly'.
>>
>> I wonder what going to school and having these books passed down during
>> the Depression to take to school must have been like.
>
> Anyway, back to hummingbirds.
>
<*SNIFF*>
|