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BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 27TH YEAR

Written by Madeline Barnes, Eleanor B. Simeon, Evelyn Smith, Natalie Joan, et al
Illustrated by Alfred Bestall, Hilda Cowham, Harry Rountree, Florence Mary Anderson, S.G. Hulme Beaman, et al.
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.

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BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 27TH YEAR
Written by Madeline Barnes, Eleanor B. Simeon, Evelyn Smith, Natalie Joan, et al. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall, Hilda Cowham, Harry Rountree, Florence Mary Anderson, S.G. Hulme Beaman, et al..
Stock no. 1506891
circa. 1931. Hardback. Slightly better than good condition.

Pictorial front cover shows three children, rocking horse and dog, black titles. Colour plates, plus colour, tint and b/w illustrations. 200 pages. First story - Tommy's Topper by Madeline Barnes. Spine bumped, worn and grubby with a vertical crease from top to bottom. Corners and cover edges worn. Covers grubby. Rear joint and a couple of hinges cracked. Ink inscription in To box on front endpaper and 1930 written to verso of frontis. A few marks to contents but most pages are clean. A little foxing.

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Front cover

Cover of BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 27TH YEAR by Madeline Barnes; Eleanor B. Simeon; Evelyn Smith; Natalie Joan; et al

Contents

  • LONG STORIES:
  • Tommy's Topper by Madeline Barnes
  • Plain Jane by E. Maslin Kearsey
  • Stand and Delivery by Eleanor B. Simeon
  • The Lost Bounce (Play) by W.M. Horsbrugh and E.H. Lang
  • The Present Too Many by Evelyn Smith
  • The Giants in the Forest by H. Waddington Seers
  • Why the Gay Griffin Turned Black by Edith Wood
  • SHORT STORIES AND VERSE:
  • The Favourite by S.M. Goode
  • My Country Morning by Evelyn Stebbing
  • The Street Dancer by Kathleen Rushworth
  • Digging by Rachel Macandrew
  • Country Sights by E.C. Brereton
  • The Sheet of Newspaper by Margaret Baker
  • Read This by C.B.
  • The Fairy Minstrels by W.K.H.
  • Joanna's Dream by Jessie Pope
  • How We Got Bumble by M. McClenaghan
  • The Motor-Coach Trip by Elizabeth Cowen
  • The Clockwork Governess by M. O'Connor
  • Gipsy Lane by E. Woodward Jephcott
  • The Peacock Party by Natalie Joan
  • The Vegetarian Dragon by Frank Watkins
  • The Letter by Margaret G. Rhodes
  • Titbits by Isabel M. Laird
  • Midsummer's Eve (Song) - Words by Irene Boyd, Music by Olive Linnell
  • The Wizard's House by W.K.H.
  • The Glass Man by Norman Hunter
  • The First Bathe by Natalie Joan
  • The Sailor's Tune by Barbara Ross McIntosh
  • "Yah, road-hog!" by Peter Fraser
  • "Seems to me it was worth while being alive in those days" by Peter Fraser
  • The Ferry by Jessie Pope
  • Tabby's Triumph by Ian Wood
  • A Rainy Day by Wegon
  • The Sneeze that Went all Round the Garden by Maud Morin
  • We Two by Mabel M. Stevenson
  • The Cock and the Dentist by A.A. Attwood
  • Whispering by Charlotte Druitt Cole
  • A Black Business by Chas. M. Campbell
  • For the King by Jim Pennant
  • The Magician by Ruth Cobb
  • Saturday's Child by Natalie Joan
  • A Ship of Yesterday by Stan Hope
  • The Most Beautiful Thing in the World by Joan de Fraine
  • The Old Person of Ealing by Chas. M. Campbell
  • An English Girl by William Bailly
  • Bang! by John Lea
  • The Prince Who couldn't Make up his Mind by Joan de Fraine
  • Always Time for a Song by John Lea
  • Clara the Goat by W.K. Holmes