SIGNED SEVEN O'Clock STORIES Robert Gordon Anderson Children Bedtime Boyd Smith

Description: Offered: Scarce(Unknown Contemporary) Seven O'Clock Stonier by Robert Gordon Anderson --Signed FFEP "The Best Wishes of the MAW (sp) who told these Stories Robert Gordon Anderson 1922 second Printing G.P. Putnam's Sons. Blue cloth with lithograph on front cover Santa Clause, Illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, 180 pp. color illustrations toned pages. There are no other signed copies of this edition ever foundTitle: Seven O'Clock Stories Author: Robert Gordon Anderson (American, born 1881) Illustrator: E. Boyd Smith (American, St. John, New Brunswick, 1860–1943) Printer: Knickerbocker Press (New York, NY) Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York Date: 1922 Medium: Illustrations: commercial color process Dimensions: 9 5/16 x 7 x 1 in. (23.6 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm) By: Robert Gordon Anderson ****Seven O'Clock Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson is a delightful collection of short stories designed to be read aloud to children at bedtime. Each story is engaging and filled with charm, perfect for capturing the imagination of young readers. The tales are well-written and easy to follow, making them ideal for children who may have shorter attention spans. Anderson's writing style is simple yet captivating, and the stories have a timeless quality that will appeal to both kids and adults alike. Overall, Seven O'Clock Stories is a wonderful book to read with children before bedtime, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for charming and entertaining stories to share with their little ones. Book Description: “Not once upon a time but just now, in a white house by the side of a road, live three happy children. Their mother and father gave them very odd names, for two old uncles and one aunt, which pleased the old people very much. Their names are all written in the big family Bible,–Jehosophat Green, Marmaduke Green, and Hepzebiah Green.” So begins this collection of bedtime stories for children, one each night for twenty days, involving these three happy children and their playmates.****E. Boyd Smith Early on in her path-finding career at the Brooklyn Public Library, Clara Hunt embarked on an ambitious campaign to persuade American publishers to produce picture books of equal beauty and worth to those then being published for the children of Europe. In a letter to the Houghton Mifflin Company—presumably one of several messages she addressed to the industry—, Hunt indicated that she had developed a plan for the realization of her goal, and was prepared to discuss it. Not one to mince words, she added this bracing caveat: 'I do not care to speak with a subordinate.' In later years, Smith's zealous lobbying effort was credited with having prompted the stately Boston firm to undertake the publication of, among other works, several remarkable picture books by E. Boyd Smith. Born in St. John, New Brunswick, and raised in Boston, Elmer Boyd Smith (1860-1943) spent several years studying art in France before finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut. While living abroad, Smith absorbed a wide swath of influences ranging from the muted, mystery-laden palette and epic vision of French muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes to the dashing graphic shorthand of poster artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He based My Village (1896), the first of the more than seventy books he illustrated for adults and children, on his summer sojourns in the village of Valombre, near Paris. Like so many artists of his generation, Smith, being acutely aware of living in a time of breathtaking technological and social change, dedicated himself in part to documenting aspects of the everyday world—sail power, the family farm—that he knew to be on the verge of disappearing forever. Smith's first two children's picture books, The Story of Noah's Ark (1905) and The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (1906) immediately established him, alongside Howard Pyle and Jessie Willcox Smith, as one of America's leading illustrators for the young. He was well suited to the calling, thanks not only to his formidable skill as a draughtsman but also because of his genial storytelling manner and knack for conveying useful knowledge in a fresh, unforced, and delightful way. Readers of today will find occasional evidence in Smith’s books of the extent to which turn-of-the-last-century American society—and the children’s literature to which it gave rise—was far less inclusive than our own. In Pocahontas, for instance, Smith offhandedly characterizes Native Americans defending their land as "stealthy red skins... shrieking like fierce beasts of prey." African Americans figure in the artist's world only as silent onlookers or as service providers—a galley cook in The Seashore Book, a dining car waiter in The Railroad Book. These "teachable moments" illustrate the basic truth that with the passage of time even books about history become a part of history, with unintended stories to tell about the era in which they themselves were created. Still more fascinating, however, are the stories Smith did set out to record for the children of his own and future generations—tales of the golden age of transcontinental rail travel, of the last days of the great tall ships, of the timeless dignity of family farm life. Smith’s picture books are rich time capsules into which we are free to peer. And as early high points of the American picture book, they occupy an honored place in the legacy to all children left by Clara Whitehill Hunt.

Price: 97.97 USD

Location: Jasper, Georgia

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