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The Sunbonnet Babies In Italy
Delightful tale of a trip through Italy with the Sunbonnet Babies Molly and May. Illustrated by Bertha Corbett Melcher and James McCracken.
189 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 1922
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May 31, 2015
I stumbled across this book while browsing at Gutenberg one day. It appealed to me because years ago I had a quilt with the Sunbonnet Sue pattern, which was at one time very popular and is still one of my favorites. I was not sure if the Sunbonnet Babies had anything to do with Sunbonnet Sue, but one look at the adorable illustrations of this 1922 book convinced me I needed to read it anyway.
Molly and May are the Sunbonnet Babies, sisters who are on a trip to Italy with their parents between the two World Wars. We start our trip in Naples, visit Pompeii, Sorrento, the Famous Blue Grotto on the Isle Of Capri. Rome! Florence! Pisa! Venice!! This was quite a trip and the Sunbonnet Babies had a wonderful time: seeing the sights, learning some history, and meeting people. Reading felt like being right there with them. A perfect blend of lesson and fun, like a good trip (and a good travel book) should be.
The girls were charming and adventurous: they drove their own goat-drawn cart in one park, and were not bothered at all when the goats tipped them over. They asked a boy selling flowers if they could sell his roses for him, just for the fun of doing so, and of course gave him all the money they made. They were sorry they could not buy a blackbird another boy wanted to sell them, but they gave him a few coins to buy food
for the bird. I thought Molly and May were lovely examples of how to be respectful tourists.
I would like to learn more about the author, Eulalie Osgood Grover. Her brother Edwin has a Wiki page but she does not at this time. But she has written a few other books, and I am now off to visit Switzerland with The Overall Boys.
Edit: Just discovered this link about the author: http://www.wppl.org/wphistory/Eulalie...
Molly and May are the Sunbonnet Babies, sisters who are on a trip to Italy with their parents between the two World Wars. We start our trip in Naples, visit Pompeii, Sorrento, the Famous Blue Grotto on the Isle Of Capri. Rome! Florence! Pisa! Venice!! This was quite a trip and the Sunbonnet Babies had a wonderful time: seeing the sights, learning some history, and meeting people. Reading felt like being right there with them. A perfect blend of lesson and fun, like a good trip (and a good travel book) should be.
The girls were charming and adventurous: they drove their own goat-drawn cart in one park, and were not bothered at all when the goats tipped them over. They asked a boy selling flowers if they could sell his roses for him, just for the fun of doing so, and of course gave him all the money they made. They were sorry they could not buy a blackbird another boy wanted to sell them, but they gave him a few coins to buy food
for the bird. I thought Molly and May were lovely examples of how to be respectful tourists.
I would like to learn more about the author, Eulalie Osgood Grover. Her brother Edwin has a Wiki page but she does not at this time. But she has written a few other books, and I am now off to visit Switzerland with The Overall Boys.
Edit: Just discovered this link about the author: http://www.wppl.org/wphistory/Eulalie...
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