Synopses & Reviews
"I do wish some one would write a book like that for girls," is the remark we have frequently heard when a new book of sports for boys has made it appearance; but is was not until the publication of the American Boys Handy Book that it occurred to us to write a book for the American boy's neglected sisters, which should be equally original and practical.
In the American Girl's Handy Book, which it has been our endeavor to make peculiarly American, we have sought to introduce original and novel ideas, and by their aid to open new avenues of enterprise and enjoyment.
One of our objects is to impress upon the minds of the girls the fact that they all possess talent and ability to achieve more than they suppose possible.
Synopsis
Do something 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."
Synopsis
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."
Description
The
American Girls Handy Book Will Show you how to:
- Make Pressed Flowers and Leaves
- Make a Lawn-Tennis Net
- Tell Fortunes
- Play Fourth of July Games
- Have a Picnic, Burgoos and a Corn Roast
- Play Quiet Games in Hot Weather
- Make a Hammock
- Make corn-Husk and Flower Dolls
- Make Many different Kinds of Fans
- Make a Telephone
- Draw
- Paint in Watercolors and Oil-Colors
- Model in Clay and Wax
- Make Attractive Booths at a Fair
- Make Various Window Decorations
- Make Home-Made Candy