Sunshine and Showers through Childhood's Hours : a Victorian treasury of activities.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Working White Limited, originating body.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry, American.

Toy and movable books--Specimens.

Toy and movable books.

American poetry.

Handicraft.

Genre:

Specimens.

Juvenile literature.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

[10] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Distribution:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Imprint of Running Press,

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : [Published by] Courage Books, 1998.

Contents:

Our garden

Summer days

Leda's portrait

My pet dog

Ripe apples

Safe at home.

Notes:

Collection of Victorian illustrations and period rhymes each accompanied by an authentic childhood activities from the late 1800s. Items such as paper doll and clothes, paper folding fan, paper picture fame, cross-stitch sampler kit with threads, recipe book for doll's picnic, and how to make hand shadows from 'The Little Book of Hand Shadows' are inserted inside pages which form pockets.

Laminated pictorial boards with burgundy ribbon ties.

"Copyright © 1998 Working White Limited"--Back board.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copy 2 has description of contents of book on loose leaf of paper laid in.

ISBN:

0762403586

9780762403585

OCLC:

40247568