| The American Girl's Handy Book: How to Amuse Yourself and Others Revised Edition Contributor(s): Beard, Lina (Author), Beard, Adelia (Author), Boylan, Anne M. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0879236663 ISBN-13: 9780879236663 Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1994 Annotation: A reprint of a gay nineties publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic painting, preservation of wild flowers, and many others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Crafts & Hobbies - Juvenile Nonfiction | Activity Books - General - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation - Camping & Outdoor Activities |
| Dewey: 790.1 |
| LCCN: 86046262 |
| Series: Nonpareil Books |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 7.6" (1.15 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Explore, hike, discover, be crafty and have fun with friends or alone, indoors or outside Written for children in 1893, and valuable for both kids and adults today, here's a magical cornucopia of projects, devices, toys, gifts, dolls, recipes, decorations, perfumes, wax and clay modeling, oil and water-color painting and games, all with clear and practical directions for how to make and play them. Vintage Americana by the Beard sisters, two of the founders of the girls scouting movement (when they weren't campaigning for women's rights). As Anne M. Boylan writes in her foreword, "Healthy and spirited, the American Girl thinks nothing of taking a ten-mile 'romp' through woods and fields with a group of friends, and collects flowers and leaves for preservation or presentation to friends and relations. Above all, however, the Beards' girl is handy. She can make a hat rack, a screen, or a bookshelf; fashion a macrame hammock or a cornhusk doll; and draw, paint, sculpt, or decorate a room...By emphasizing what girls can do, The American Girl's Handy Book presents a portrait of girlhood that is vigorous, active, and full of possibilities." |
