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Readers Respond to Peter Parley’s Feature “The Odd Picture:”  What Was It?

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Why Little John Quincy Adams had “Giles Gingerbread” Memorized

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Peter Parley’s Craft Corner: Penwipers and Pincushions

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Birds Who Watch Over People

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The Secret Lives of Dolls, Plants, and other Inanimate Objects

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Making More of the Skelt and Webb Collection of Toy Theater Theater

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Bravery Has Got to Be Carefully Taught

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It’s the Olympic Games Season—Flip Your Back…or These Pages!

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John Newbery’s Valentine’s Gift

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How to Dress the Emperor in His New Clothes

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Pettson and Findus Make a Snow Lantern (Snölytka in Swedish)

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Arte Grafica Monza’s Paper Model of a Race Car

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A Recipe for Mince Pies in The Lilliputian Magazine (1752)

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Happy 250th Birthday to Jane Austen: Adaptions for Children

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Who Invented the Stuffed Animal?

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The Earliest Recipe for Turducken in the First Known Reference to “The House that Jack Built”

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Made for a Grandson: A Nursery Rhyme Cloth Book ca. 1897

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Little Thumb: Perrault’s Resourceful Abandoned Boy

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Unique Ideas for Halloween Costumes from a 19th-Century Transformation Toy

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New Cotsen Gallery Exhibition of Glorious Victorian Toy Books Coming Soon

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