"This story book is a great favorite with the little folks, for it contains just such stories as they like to hear their aunt and older sister tell; and learn them by heart and tell them over to one another as they set out the best infant tea-set, or piece a baby-quilt, or dress dolls, or roll marbles. A book to put on the book-shelf in the playroom where Susie and Prudy, Captain Horace, Cousin Grace, and all the rest of the "Little Prudy" folks are kept."--Vermont Record.
LITTLE PRUDY"S COUSIN GRACE.
"An exquisite picture of little-girl life at school and at home, and gives an entertaining account of a secret society which originated in the fertile brain of Grace, pa.s.sed some comical resolutions at first, but was finally converted into a Soldier"s Aid Society. Full of life, and fire, and good advice; the latter sugar-coated, of course, to suit the taste of little folks."--Press.
LITTLE PRUDY"S DOTTY DIMPLE.
"Dotty Dimple is the plague of Prudy"s life, and yet she loves her dearly. Both are rare articles in juvenile literature, as real as Eva and Topsy of "Uncle Tom" fame. Witty and wise, full of sport and study, sometimes mixing the two in a confusing way, they ran bubbling through many volumes, and make everybody wish they could never grow up or change, they are so bright and cute."
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[Ill.u.s.tration: LITTLE PRUDY"S CAPTAIN HORACE.]
"You wide-awake little boys, who make whistles of willow, and go fishing and training,--Horace is very much like you, I suppose. He is by no means perfect, but he is brave and kind, and scorns a lie. I hope you and he will shake hands and be friends."
SPECIMEN OF ILl.u.s.tRATIONS TO PRUDY BOOKS.
SOPHIE MAY"S "LITTLE-FOLKS" BOOKS
[Ill.u.s.tration: SOPHIE MAY"S "LITTLE FOLKS" BOOKS DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES SOPHIE MAY ILl.u.s.tRATED DOTTY AT PLAY.]
Six Volumes. Ill.u.s.trated. Comprising:--
DOTTY DIMPLE AT HER GRANDMOTHER"S.
DOTTY DIMPLE OUT WEST.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOME.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT PLAY.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT SCHOOL.
DOTTY DIMPLE"S FLYAWAY.
In a neat box. Price 75 cents per volume.
[Ill.u.s.tration: DOTTY GOING WEST]
""Please stop," said Dotty faintly, and the boy came to her, elbowing.
"I want some of that pop-corn so much! I could buy it if you"d hold this baby till I put my hand in my pocket." The youth laughed, but for the sake of "making a trade" set down his basket and took the "enfant terrible." There was an instant attack upon his hair, which was so long and straggling as to prove an easy prey to the enemy."
SPECIMEN OF "DOTTY DIMPLE" ILl.u.s.tRATIONS
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DOTTY DIMPLE AT HER GRANDMOTHER"S.
"Sophie May"s excellent pen has perhaps never written anything more pleasing to children, especially little girls, than Dotty Dimple. If the little reader who follows Dotty through these dozen chapters,--from her visit to her grandmother to the swing under the trees,--he or she will say: "It has been a treat to read about Dotty Dimple, she"s so cunning.""--Herald of Gospel Liberty.
DOTTY DIMPLE OUT WEST.
"Dotty"s trip was jolly. In the cars where she saw so many people that she thought there"d be n.o.body left in any of the houses, she offers to hold somebody"s baby, and when it begins to cry she stuffs pop-corn into its mouth, nearly choking it to death. Afterwards, in pulling a man"s hair, she is horrified at seeing his wig come off, and gasps out "O dear, dear, dear, I didn"t know your hair was so tender." Altogether, she is the cunningist chick that ever lived."--Oxford Press.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOME.
"This little book is as full of spice as any of its predecessors, and well sustains the author"s reputation as the very cleverest of all writers of this species of children"s books. Were there any doubt on this point, the matter might be easily tested by inquiry in half the households in the city, where the book is being revelled over."--Boston Home Journal.
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[Ill.u.s.tration: "As Dotty seized two locks of the Major"s hair, one in each hand, and pulled them both as if she meant to draw them out by the roots, out they came! Yes, entirely out; and more than that, all the rest of his hair came too. His head was left as smooth as an apple. You see how it was. He wore a wig, and just for play had slyly unfastened it, and allowed Miss Dotty to pull it off. The perfect despair of her little face amused him vastly, but he did not smile; he looked very severe. "See what you have done," said he. Major Laydie"s entire head of hair lay at her feet, as brown and wavy as ever it was. Dotty looked at it with horror. The idea of scalping a man."
SPECIMEN OF "DOTTY DIMPLE" ILl.u.s.tRATIONS.
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DOTTY DIMPLE AT SCHOOL.
"Miss Dotty is a peremptory little body, with a great deal of human nature in her, who wins our hearts by her comic speeches and funny ways.
She complains of being bewitched by people, and the wind "blows her out," and she thinks if her comrade dies in the snow-storm she will be "dreadfully "shamed of it," and has rather a lively time with all her trials in going to school."--New York Citizen.
DOTTY DIMPLE AT PLAY.
""Charming Dotty Dimple" as she is so universally styled, has become decidedly a favorite with young and old, who are alike pleased with her funny sayings and doings. Dotty At Play will be found very attractive, and the children, especially the girls, will be delighted with her adventures."--Boston Express.
DOTTY DIMPLE"S FLYAWAY.
"This is the final volume of the Dotty Dimple Series. It relates how little Flyaway provisioned herself with cookies and spectacles and got lost on a little hill while seeking to mount to heaven, and what a precious alarm there was until she was found, and the subsequent joy at her recovery, with lots of quaint speeches and funny incidents."--North American.
"A Little Red Riding-Hoodish story, sprightly and takingly told."
--American Farmer.
SOPHIE MAY"S "LITTLE-FOLKS" BOOKS
[Ill.u.s.tration: LITTLE PRUDY"S FLYAWAY SERIES]
Six Volumes. Ill.u.s.trated. Comprising:--
LITTLE FOLKS ASTRAY.
PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.
AUNT MADGE"S STORY.
LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.
LITTLE GRANDFATHER.
MISS THISTLEDOWN.