A Little Pretty Pocket-book, by John Newbery
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A Little Pretty Pocket-book, by John Newbery
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A Little Pretty Pocket-book John Newbery, British publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market (1713-1767) This ebook presents «A Little Pretty Pocket-book», from John Newbery. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents - About This Book - Introduction - To Little Master Tommy - To Pretty Miss Polly - Advertisement - Chuck-farthing - Flying The Kite - Dancing Round The May-pole - Marbles - Hoop And Hide - Thread The Needle - Fishing - Blindman's Buff - Shuttle Cock - King I Am - Peg-farthing - Knock Out And Span - Hop, Step, And Jump - Boys And Girls Come Out To Play - I Sent A Letter To My Love - Pitch And Hussel - Cricket - Stool-ball - Swimming - Base-ball - Trap-ball - Tip-cat - Fives - Leap-frog - Birds-nesting - Train-banding - All The Birds In The Air - Hop-hat - Shooting - Hop-scotch - Who Will Play At My Squares - Riding - The Alphabet - The Wolf And The Kid - The Husbandman And The Stork - The Shepherd's Boy - Mercury And The Woodman - To Sir - To Madam - Prayers - Asking A Blessing - Reading - Charity - Spring - Summer - Autumn - Winter - Time's Address To Plutus And Cupid - Select Proverbs For The Use Of Children - Rules For Behaviour In Children - Mixt Precepts - Containing One Hundred And Sixty Three Rules For Children's Behaviour - At The Meeting House - At Home - At The Table - In Company - In Discourse - At The School - When Abroad - Among Other Children - Other Books
A Little Pretty Pocket-book, by John Newbery- Amazon Sales Rank: #2999087 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-11-25
- Released on: 2015-11-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Important, Confusing, Historically Educational By theboombody This one goes all the way back to 1744. When I ordered it I thought it was the first children's book ever, but it turns out it's only the first book published by the man the Newbery Children's Book Award is named after. Somewhat disappointing, but not really. Because it's so old, many of the words containing the letter "s" have an "f" in place of the "s" instead. That was the style of the day. Still reads easy though.The 51 page introduction thoroughly explains that the importance of The Little Pretty Pocket Book lies in its major influence in changing children's books from being strictly learning experiences to being entertaining experiences as well. Rather than focus on educating kids on how bad Hell is, this book has pictures of little colonial fellows playing cricket, baseball, something called hoop and hide (I think it's hide and go seek) and hopscotch. The hopscotch path on the picture looks lame by the way; it has no double-square hops anywhere, just 10 rectangles side by side. No variety or imagination. But then again, picture printing technology was limited back then, as the introduction clearly explains. There's also a large variety of long defunct games featured, and things like shooting which you know is strictly off limits for kids today.Despite ancient limitations, the pictures are very cute, and enhance the style of the book well. Each picture of a game has a short poetic description of the game below it. The author was a pretty darn good poet actually.Right now the book format I've described seems pretty clear, introduction, pictures and descriptions of games kids play. Simple right? But really I've left a lot out. The book is actually formatted more like this:Introduction, letter from Jack the Giant Killer telling boys to be good, letter from Jack the Giant Killer telling girls to be good, pictures of games with poetic descriptions and poetic morals below each picture, four or five short poetic fables with pictures and Jack the Giant Killer's explanation of why the fables are important to learn from, an anthropomorphic description of the four seasons with pictures, various random proverbs, and finally an extensive bibliography.A lot of stuff in this little book.And the format is further complicated by the page numbering system. The book itself, manufactured in the 1960's or so, has its own page numbers which are numbered properly, but the original book copy produced by facsimilie seems to have numbered the pages 1, 2, 3, 4....and so on, until all of a sudden its numbered with letters of the alphabet, and then goes BACK to numbers again. So back in 1744 you might be able to find page 76 easily, but page 50 might be labeled with a letter. And the introduction says this was about the TENTH edition here reproduced, so why weren't the page numbers corrected in an earlier edition? I can't figure it out.This book was intended to be sold with a ball or a pincushion, depending on whether a boy or girl was reading it, and the ball/pincushion was intended to be more of a disciplinary tracking system rather than a toy. Of course Jack the Giant Killer tells kids in his letters that since the toy is a gift from him, they have to use it the way he asks them to use it in return for the gift. And he asks them to put a pin in the black side when they've been bad, and a pin in the red side when they've been good. 10 pins on the bad side lead to a whipping, and 10 on the good side lead to the child receiving a penny. Interesting, isn't it? Almost as interesting as the publishing company selling fever powder and other useless unresearched medicines in its shop along with its books. Once again, the introduction tells us this is what happened, and it may prove to be the all-time most useful introduction to a book ever.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A book for any baseball fan By Caleb Kern One of the very first mentions of the actual word Baseball! A must for any baseball collector, but good luck finding it in a first edition.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. We are so lucky to have access to rare books like this! By D. Fellix This really interesting! We are so lucky to have access to rare books like this!
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