A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (page 1/3)

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Contents heading with children looking inside a chest

In this line drawing the artist Willy Pogany has drawn a big old chest or trunk, with a boy and a girl looking inside while a cat (with a bow tie) mews [more...] [$]

A Good Thanksgiving

A man wearing a top hat and tails and spats holds a turkey, dead presumably although unplucked, upside down by its ankles. He smiled at the shoemaker standing next to him. A black cat watches. [...] [more...] [$]

Initial Letter I

A decorative capital letter “I” with a child peeking out from behind the letter; it was used as a drop cap (dropped capital) at the start of a paragraph. [more...] [$]

Initial Letter S

A decorative drop-cap (initial letter) “S” from the poem “A Good Thanksgiving Day.” A woman carries either a milking yoke or a hockey stick. [more...] [$]

Friend in the Garden

A woodcut of a frog on a lily-pad. [$]