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Silent Photoplay: A Place for Stories of All Types

Silent Photoplay: A Place for Stories of All Types

  • 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
  • Strange Children’s Poems and a Special Appearance of a Tyger

    There are some very strange poems out there that are geared toward children. Many are nonsense rhymes, which I tend to stay away from, because I get nothing out of them. I like ones that tell a story, ones that really make you picture what’s happening! The first one we will look at is a…

    May 7, 2015
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