Toys' Christmas Frolic
Author : Josephine M. Besio
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Children's plays
ISBN :
Author : Josephine M. Besio
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Children's plays
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Author : Mary Dawson
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Entertaining
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Author : Mary Dawson
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Amusements
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Author : Elizabeth Frances Ephraim Guptill
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
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Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781841355979
One of Enid Blyton's best-loved Christmas stories in picture book format with bright, colourful illustrations throughout.
Author : Wybert Reeve
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Drama
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Author : George M. Baker
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Drama
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Santa Claus' Frolics" by George M. Baker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Patrick D Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1561645397
A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. The sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the swamp. But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own. Love and tenderness are here too: the hopes and passions of each new generation, friendships with the persecuted blacks and Indians, and respect for the land and its wildlife. A Land Remembered was winner of the Florida Historical Society's Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel. Now in its 14th hardcover printing, it has been in print since 1984 and is also available in trade paperback.
Author : Gary Cross
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674030077
To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies(R) and Ninja Turtles(R), Tinkertoys(R) and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils about our values, that Gary Cross explores in Kids' Stuff, a revealing look into the meaning of American toys through this century. Early in the 1900s toys reflected parents' ideas about children and their futures. Erector sets introduced boys to a realm of business and technology, while baby dolls anticipated motherhood and building blocks honed the fine motor skills of the youngest children. Kids' Stuff chronicles the transformation that occurred as the interests and intentions of parents, children, and the toy industry gradually diverged--starting in the 1930s when toymakers, marketing playthings inspired by popular favorites like Shirley Temple and Buck Rogers, began to appeal directly to the young. TV advertising, blockbuster films like Star Wars(R), and Saturday morning cartoons exploited their youthful audience in new and audacious ways. Meanwhile, powerful social and economic forces were transforming the nature of play in American society. Cross offers a richly textured account of a culture in which erector sets and baby dolls are no longer alone in preparing children for the future, and in which the toys that now crowd the racks are as perplexing for parents as they are beguiling for little boys and girls. Whether we want our children to be high achievers in a competitive world or playful and free from the worries of adult life, the toy store confronts us with many choices. What does the endless array of action figures and fashion dolls mean? Are children--or parents--the dupes of the film, television, and toy industries, with their latest fads and fantasies? What does this say about our time, and what does it bode for our future? Tapping a vein of rich cultural history, Kids' Stuff exposes the serious business behind a century of playthings.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Temperance
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