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BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 27TH YEAR

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.. circa. 1931

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.

Stock no. 1506891

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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

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