Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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What did boys and girls wear during the early 1900s? Thirty pages of colorable illustration — based on authentic merchandise in Sears catalogs from 1901 through 1921 — provide some answers. For special occasions, girls looked splendid in frilly dresses with lots of lace and ruffles. Knee-length trousers and high-top boots were popular with boys. Both favored hats. Coloring book fans and fashion mavens will treasure this collection and its delightful glimpse of early-20th-century styles for kids.

The stories in this book are 11 of the world’s all-time favourite fairy tales translated from the French by A. E.·Johnson and retold by Charles Perrault. The stories are: The Sleeping Beauty In The Woods,Puss In Boots,Little Tom Thumb,The Fairies,Ricky Of The Tuft (also known as Tufty Riquet), Cinderella,Little Red Riding Hood,Blue Beard,Beauty And The Beast,The Friendly Frog and;Princess Rosette. To accompany the stories and bring them to life are 6 full-page colour plates, plus 43 black and white outline illustrations exquisitely drawn by none other than Heath Robinson. You may be thinking “Why Heath Robinson?” Why indeed? Heath Robinson, or to be more correct W. Heath Robinson, is better known for his wonderfully elaborate illustrations of extremely complex machinery designed to achieve the simplest tasks. The images in this book, and in other children’s books he illustrated, amply show that he was capable of so much more than drawing amazingly complex machinery.

This handsome collection of full-color vignettes, featuring over 350 charming cuts of old-fashioned, rosy-checked children, will serve as an excellent resource for countless arts and crafts projects. Selected from rare Victorian-era chromolithographs, engaging images depict youngsters — singly and in pairs — outfitted in knee pants, folk costumes, high-top boots and ruffled dresses; carrying flowers, a birthday cake and baskets of fruits; dancing, playing croquet and wading in streams; cuddling animals, playing with toys, and much more. Ideal for use by papercrafters, decoupers, and collagists, these lovely illustrations can be easily reproduced on a color copier, making them ideal as well for royalty-free use by commercial artists and graphic designers.

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