Silent Photoplay: A Place for Stories of All Types

Silent Photoplay: A Place for Stories of All Types

  • Antique Children's Books Part One – Joyous Times Day 1 – The Concert and How Little Johnny Lost His Supper

    I have an antique book called Joyous Times. It is a children’s book full of poems and stories (and pictures! ) for Victorian era children to enjoy.  It was printed and bound by M. A. Donohue at 407-429 Dearborn Street, Chicago. It was published very early 1900s (probably 1904) because the inscription says in pencil ‘Charles E. Roach from…

    May 13, 2015
  • Cabbages and Peanuts

    Today, we will talk about Bedtime Story Book. In it, there is a single charming story in verse called Cabbages and Peanuts. The book is unpaginated, but amounts to 44 pages. Published in 1930 by Saalfield Publishing Company in Akron, Ohio, it was written by Harriet Boyd in the USA. The front page has a name…

    May 11, 2015
  • My Mommy’s Songs

    Only One Mother Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky. Hundreds of shells on the shore together. Hundreds of birds that go singing by. Hundreds of lambs in the sunny weather. Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees to greet the clover. Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn. But only one mother…

    May 10, 2015
  • A Child’s Garden of Verses – Robert Louis Stevenson

    Happy Thought The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson I have a little book published by Rand McNally & Company in 1943 of Robert Louis Stevenson‘s A Child’s Garden of Verses, which is what we will be talking about today!…

    May 9, 2015
  • Sad Poems and Those that Tell Us About Life

    Children’s poems are not all bright and happy-go-lucky. Sometimes they have to teach us about life and even death. These few that I have featured here surprised me a bit, but I loved them all the same. This first one is by Eugene Field. Those who have read a previous post know how I feel…

    May 8, 2015
←Previous Page
1 … 67 68 69 70 71
Next Page→

Silent Photoplay: A Place for Stories of All Types