Peter Rabbit had lost his appetite. Now when Peter Rabbit loses his appetite, something is very wrong indeed with him. Peter has boasted that he can eat any time and all the time. In fact, the two things that Peter thinks most about are his stomach and satisfying his curiosity, and nearly all of the scrapes that Peter has gotten into have been because of those two things. So when Peter loses his appetite or his curiosity, there is surely something the matter with him. Ev...
Description: Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: Yiddish Book Center; Jewish History; Foreward by Sholem Asch and John Galsworthy; This book was provided by the Yiddish Book Center, the world’s first and only comprehensive source of out-of-print Yiddish bo
Description: Volume 5 of R. Caldecott's picture books
Excerpt: ONE morning Dick Sparrow the letter carrier of Shady Brook brought word to old Roly Bear that the Chubby Bears who were his cousins were expecting him to pay them a visit.
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature
A reprint from the Numismatist for July, 1901.
Freemasons
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. Miss Polly did not usually make hurried movements; she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But to-day she was hurrying -- actually hurrying. Nancy, washing dishes at the sink, looked up in surprise. Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
Chapter I. How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child Centuries ago there lived??A king!? my little readers will say immediately. No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.