"Includes paper dolls, paper furniture, doll house plans, and bonus patterns to make your own apron and dust cap"--Cover, p. [4].

Mary Frances and her brother plant a garden around her playhouse and through it and the Garden People, they learn the pleasures and wonders of gardening.

From the popular Mary Frances story-instruction series, this volume is pure story, brimming front to back with stories that breathe sunshine and happiness. Mary Frances sails on The Good Ferry to an enchanted island where she evades an evil pirate, finds the lost story, and thus unleashes a wellspring of tales for all children, for all time. Join Mary Frances as she listens to the Story Lady tell fairy tales, folk tales, and fables filled with adventure, magic, and mystery in a book that will captivate girls and boys alike.You will read stories of talking carrots and cats; fairies and forbidden bubbles; necklaces and masks that are magic; diamonds and dragons; miniature cottages and magnificent castles; knights in shining armor, soldiers at sea, pirates, princesses, and patriotism. You will encounter Merlin the Magician, witches, goblins, and Peter Pan. The collection includes works by Sir Thomas Malory, James Russell Lowell, Washington Irving, Henry Longfellow and Charles Dickens with timeless favorites including the story of Sir Galahad, The Sword in the Stone, and The Man Without a Country. " The Mary Frances Story Book 100th Anniversary Edition" has been restored and expanded with a new introduction, larger format, fresh typesetting, and enhanced graphics including black and white interior illustrations and color cover illustrations. The complete Mary Frances 100th Anniversary collection includes" The Mary Frances Cook Book 100th Anniversary Edition, The Mary Frances Sewing Book 100th Anniversary Edition, The Mary Frances Housekeeper 100th Anniversary Edition, The Mary Frances Garden Book 100th Anniversary Edition, The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book 100th Anniversary Edition, The Mary Frances First Aid Book 100th Anniversary Edition" and " The Mary Frances Story Book 100th Anniversary Edition."

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This riveting saga spans three generations of Chinese women before, during, and after Mao's regime. The story is told by Peace, a young Chinese woman who now lives and works as a housekeeper in North America. She has just learned of her father's death in China and begins to share the past adventures of her grandmother and mother in the homeland.

A comprehensive history of the growth of the coffee industry and the coffee house. This vastly informative, compellingly interesting, and beautifully illustrated work is a complement to everyone's personal library. (Schiffer)

Ben Bear and Chris Croc open a new restaurant serving delicious pizza and desserts and serve free food to the one hundredth customer.

Excerpt from The Mary Frances Housekeeper: Or Adventures Among the Doll People Set up housekeeping with the help of Mary Frances, and overcame hardships that would have discouraged anyone less brave, forms a series of entrancing adven tures that must thrill the heart of every youthful house keeper. As you may easily guess, Mary Frances loves to play house because she expects, like every little woman, to grow up some day and have a real house of her own to keep. In the hope that they will like the D011 People as much as Mary Frances does, this book is sent out to girls everywhere with the best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.