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306 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
Young People's Books
Carroll, Lewis, (pseud, of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). j 92 0233m
Moses, Belle. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at home; the story
of his life. 1910. Appleton.
Gives many anecdotes of the author of "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" and of
his child friends. Tells how the stories came to be written and includes many of the
nonsense verses, also a chapter on the riddles and odd games and puzzles in which
Lewis Carroll delighted.
Chamberlain, James Franklin. j 630 C35
How we are fed; a geographical reader. 1912. Macmillan. (Home
and world series.)
Partial contents: Story of a loaf of bread.—How our meat is supplied.—The fishing
industry.—A rice field.—How sugar is made.—Where salt comes from.—On a coffee
plantation.—The tea gardens of China.—A cranberry bog.—The cocoanut islands of the
Pacific.—How dates grow.—A visit to a vineyard.—Chestnuts.—A bag of peanuts.
Figyelmessy, Mrs Elisa Haldeman. 3 F47it
Two boys in the tropics. Macmillan.
Two American children go in a small sailing vessel to British Guiana, where they
live for a time the life of the tropics. Contains many anecdotes of Sapajou the monkey,
an ant-eater, a sloth and other queer animal pets. Author lived for many years in
British Guiana.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. j H367g
The great stone face. Fowler.
Allegorical story of the boy Ernest, awaiting fulfilment of the prophecy that a great
man should come who would be known by his resemblance to the great stone face.
Marshall, Henrietta Elizabeth. j 900 M41
An empire story; stories of India and the greater colonies, told to
children, with pictures by J. R. Skelton. 1908. Stokes.
Contents: Canada.—Australia.—New Zealand.—South Africa.—India.
Moore, Clement Clarke. j 811 M87
Twas the night before Christmas; a visit from St. Nicholas, with
pictures by J. W. Smith. 1912. Houghton.
Moore, Harris W. j 684 M87
Manual training toys for the boy's workshop. 1912. Manual Arts
Press.
Plates and working directions for making darts, flying tops, kites, windmills and
many other toys.
Robert Bruce, king of Scotland. j 92 R534I
Lang, Jean. Story of Robert the Bruce, with pictures by F. M. B.
Blaikie. [1907.] Jack. (Children's heroes.)
Life of the hero-king, telling how he and his dauntless little band of patriot warriors
won the independence of Scotland.
Sharp, Dallas Lore. j 590.4 S53r
Roof and meadow; school edition. 1911. Century.
Contents: Birds from a city roof.—The hunting of the wood chuck.—Three sermons.—The
marsh.—Calico and the kittens.—The sparrow roost.—"Mux."—Racoon
creek.—The dragon of the swale.