Red Wagon

by Lady Eleanor Smith

Red Wagon is a children's picture book written by Lady Eleanor Smith. The book tells the story of a little girl who receives a red wagon as a gift from her parents. The girl is thrilled with her new wagon and spends all day playing with it, pulling it around the yard and pretending to be a princess in a carriage. As the day goes on, the girl's friends come over and they all take turns riding in the wagon. Eventually, the girl's mother calls her in for dinner and she has to leave her beloved wagon outside. The next morning, the girl wakes up to find that it has rained overnight and her wagon is now covered in mud. She is devastated, but her mother helps her clean it up and they spend the rest of the day playing with the wagon together. Red Wagon is a heartwarming story about the joy of childhood play and the special bond between a mother and her child. The book is beautifully illustrated and is sure to delight young readers.1930. This is the story of Joe-born to the circus and true to its standards to the end-a vivid, unusual and dynamic character. But it is more than the story of one man, it is the circus itself, bustling, powerful, rowdy in action and excitement. If you have ever thrilled to the romance and color of circus life-the animals, the acrobats, the trainers, the clowns, all that world of picturesque rascaldom that follows the trail of the red wagon-you will find cause to thrill in this story of the open road with its great zest for life and its fresh, vigorous language and outlook.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

374 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1930

About the author

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902 – 1945)was an English writer. The eldest of the politician F. E. Smith's three children, she worked as a society reporter and cinema reviewer for a while, then as a publicist for circus companies. In the latter role she travelled more widely, and gained inspiration for her third career, writing popular novels and short stories which often provided the basis for the 'Gainsborough melodramas' of the period. These stories often had a romanticised historical or Gypsy setting, based on her own research into Romany culture (she believed her paternal great-grandmother to have been a gypsy).