applewood miscellany 2: raising your great-grandparents
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The editors at Applewood Books feature pages from 18 old children's books from the collection of over 1,400 at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Applewood Books has photographed the entire collection and already issued over 100 of these wonderful books with more on the way.TRANSCRIPT
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e have been privileged to bring our cameras into the American Antiquarian Society and capture their unique collection of American children’s books. In this Miscellany, we present pages from the collection that build a picture of what it may have been like to be a child, parent, or teacher in days gone by. The pages reveal a tougher world, where behavior meant the difference between life and death. In Old Pop Corn, an anthropomorphized ear of corn out for a walk is stripped of his kernels by bullying gangs of boys and girls. In Daddy Long Legs, a little girl is brought to the home of a misanthropic spider who strangles her and then feels perverse remorse that he has lost his only chance to have a friend. In today’s world of cartoon
and literature these moments might be considered funny; in days gone by, one gets the feeling, these were not laughing matters, but ways of teaching children to mind their elders, avoid strangers, and stay safe from harm.
There are other themes that make the good old days seem not so good and strangely far, far away: overt racism, sexism, cruelty to animals, authoritarianism. Fortunately, there are also themes that make us all wish we were transported back in time: charity, devo-tion, kindness, a sense of leisure, and a connection to the natural world. Books like Cruise of the Walnut Shell expose a gentle world in which children were free to experience the edges of their imagination unfettered by parental control. But then again, what one sees on the surface of the past is always only a reflection of our own time.
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Number Two
Raising Your Great-Grandparents
From Bob’s School Days
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From The Cruise of the Walnut Shellapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080132
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From Freaks and Frolics of Little Girls & Boysapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081566
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ABCs&
Schooling
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From The Merry Alphabetapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080682
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From A.B.C. of Objectsapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080095
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From Apple-pie ABCapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080149
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From Bob’s School Daysapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080354
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From The Story of Columbus for Little Folksapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081061
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People:Real
&Fictional
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From The Story of Columbus for Little Folksapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081061
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From Pocahontasapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080941
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From The Wonderful Leaps of Sam Patchapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081290
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From Yankee Doodleapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081320
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From Bible Heroesapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080187
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From Tom Thumbapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081153
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From An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dogapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080460
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Animals:Domestic,
Wild &Circus
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From Landseer’s Picture Book of Dogsapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080637
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From Landseer’s Picture Book of Dogsapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080637
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From Domestic Animalsapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080361
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From Wild Animalsapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081252
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From A Peep at the Circusapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080859
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From Wonders of the Circusapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081313
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From Santa Claus & His Worksapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081245
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Toys&
Games
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From Home Games for Little Boysapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429080552
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From The Brave Tin Soldierapplewoodbooks.com/index.php/9781429081450
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From Winter Sportsawb.com/9781429080927
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The images from the books in this issue of Applewood Miscellany come from editions held at the American Antiquarian Society, a world-renowned library and research center for the study of American history, literature, andculture located in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by printer Isaiah Thomas, the Society collects, preserves, and makes accessible books, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed visual art produced in what is now the United States between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. At 17,000 volumes, the AAS Children’s Literature Collection is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world. Every year, the AAS hosts anumber of public programs and research fellowship opportunities to increase publicunderstanding of American history.
Visit the American Antiquarian Societyon the web at:www.americanantiquarian.org
This issue is a sampler of the many children’s books photographed and made available in print and e-book by ApplewoodBooks from originals housed atthe American AntiquarianSociety. For a completelist of titles currentlyavailable and moreinformation abouteach title, visit:aas.awb.com
From The Cruise of the Walnut Shell