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Tom Tit Tales By GILLY BEAR
_Bed-time Stories for Children_
[Illustration]
Contains 156 Pages, 12 Color Plates and numerous Black and White
Illustrations
Bound in Cloth Gold and Color Stamping
Price $1.25
“If you are favored and can still stand under the barred Gate of the
Years to the twelfth notch or so, you will not yet have mislaid the key
to your Imagination, and you will see—as probably your elders will not
be able to do clearly—that this book has the familiar look in its pages
of the places you know so well when you are asleep or just dozing before
the fire. Some people write stories for children which remind one of the
man on the city roof-top looking through the skylight at what the people
are doing in the room below. But Gilly Bear, when he wrote these
stories, sat at the desk within the room and possessed himself of an
intimate knowledge of all that happened there. The entire book deals
with Bobby and a funny old elf, evidently numberless hundreds of years
old, who lures the former to Slumberland every night. The old elf is
vividly portrayed by Helen E. Ohrenschall, to whom the author is
indebted for the delightful pictorial features of the book.”—_The New
York Evening Sun._
“Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company have recently published three attractively
bound children’s books for the holiday season, written by Gilly Bear.
‘TOM TIT TALES’ tells of a most convenient fairy, who comes to comfort
children at Tired-time—Bobby is delightfully entertained by Tom Tit and
is taken on most fascinating excursions into Candy Land, to the Clock in
the Sky, to the Rainbow and other equally interesting places, if he has
been good all day. The illustrations in color are by Helen E.
Ohrenschall.”—_News Press, St. Joseph._
“The Gilly Bear books, which have been published on the eve of the
holiday season, have come out at an opportune moment, inasmuch as the
book-buying habit becomes intense at this particular time. ‘TOM TIT
TALES,’ ‘THE GREEN TULIP’ and ‘FUN IN THE FOREST’ are ideal stories for
children. They contain an immense amount of wholesome sentiment and
clean humor, and there are no keener humorists than the little
people.”—_The Times Star, Cincinnati._
“‘TOM TIT TALES,’ ‘FUN IN THE FOREST’ and ‘THE GREEN TULIP’ by Gilly
Bear are all attractive children’s books. Gilly Bear has made himself
known to a large section of the child world by the creation of Tom Tit,
whom Bobby met and who introduced the little boy to a host of marvelous
people, with some surprising adventures.
“‘FUN IN THE FOREST’ describes, in a way to please any normal child, the
adventures of a score of animals and fowl.
“Two little Dutch children, Katrina and Jan, in search of a fairy tulip,
are the figures in ‘THE GREEN TULIP,’ and the experiences they go
through are attractively described and pictured.”—_The Standard Union,
Brooklyn._
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Fun in the Forest
By Gilly Bear
Contains 64 Pages, Profusely Illustrated in Color and Black and White.
Bound in Cloth, with
Colored Insert on Cover
Price 75 Cents
[Illustration]
“‘FUN IN THE FOREST’ is a story that cannot fail to hold the attention
of children, instruct them, too, and develop sympathy and affection for
the small animals.”—_The Evening Star, Newark._
“‘FUN IN THE FOREST’ by Gilly Bear contains little stories of animals
and their family and social life in a ‘wood at the top of the big green
hill.’ It is seen that the Squirrel Family are generous entertainers and
that all the wood folk are glad to come to their party. There is no hint
of either fable or moral in the tales, but just the play of a pleasant
imagination in the telling of animal stories.”—_The Post, Hartford,
Conn._
“‘FUN IN THE FOREST’ by Gilly Bear is an instructive and amusing tale of
animals, which should delight children from six to ten years. It is
profusely illustrated.”—_The Bulletin, San Francisco._
“Parents or aunts or uncles, looking for picture books for the little
ones, with some element of cleverness in them, will be glad to pick up
any of a group of handsomely got up books published by Saml. Gabriel
Sons & Company. They are the Gilly Bear books and the contents were
originally published in the New York _Evening Sun_ ‘Bedtime Stories’ and
were immensely popular. They stimulate the child’s imagination and
delight him by their whimsical humor.
“‘TOM TIT TALES’—Entrancing stories of adventure, inspiring,
entertaining and amusing and full of life, action and interest ‘just
before the Sandman comes.’
“‘THE GREEN TULIP’—A splendid fairy tale, describing the exciting
adventures of two little Dutch children in search of a fairy tulip.
“‘FUN IN THE FOREST’—A charming story of absorbing interest, which tells
an amusing tale of animals and their doings in field and forest.
“The illustrations and general make-up of the books are very
attractive.”—_Herald-Telegraph, Montreal._
“‘THE GREEN TULIP’ and ‘FUN IN THE FOREST,’ from the press of Saml.
Gabriel Sons & Company, New York, are two delightful children’s books
illustrated by Frances Brundage. The illustrations are in black and
white and in color, the color pages being beautifully done. The stories
are printed in large type and are nicely bound.”—_The Journal,
Milwaukee._
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The Green Tulip
By Gilly Bear
Contains 64 Pages, Profusely Illustrated in Color and Black and White.
Bound in Cloth, with Colored Insert on Cover
Price 75 Cents
[Illustration]
“Katrina and Jan are two quaint Dutch children living in Holland,
described in ‘THE GREEN TULIP’ as ‘the loveliest, strangest, pleasantest
land on earth.’ They first meet a green fairy who is crying for a green
tulip. So Katrina and Jan start out to find the green tulip for the
grieving fairy. In their search, the pair have some funny adventures.
The illustrations are as delightfully Dutch as a windmill or one of
Franz Hals’s pictures.”—_Post Express, Rochester, N.Y._
“‘THE GREEN TULIP’—A fairy tale of Holland by Gilly Bear and published
by Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company. Another clever and attractive bit of
reading for the quite young juvenile. The illustrations done by Frances
Brundage are in themselves ample commendation for this charming book for
the Christmas list. The world of fairyland is put under tribute to
furnish the theme. Holland is made the setting and the talented
co-workers in author and artist offer one of the most pleasing numbers
in the Gilly Bear series, as a result of their deft workmanship. There
is a world of diversion in following the fortunes of Katrina and Jan in
sailing down ‘the Laziest Canal’ and in stopping, ‘but not too long,’ in
the village of None-May-Care, in which ‘nobody thinks very hard.’”—_The
Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio._
“The vogue of bed-time stories is continually broadening and the demand
for new books of this character naturally increases as the holiday
season approaches. To meet it, Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company have just
issued three attractive new works calculated to fire the imagination of
‘Youngest America.’ The first of this series, ‘TOM TIT TALES,’ contains
a series of entertaining stories to be told ‘just before the Sandman
comes.’ The second, ‘THE GREEN TULIP,’ is a fairy tale built around the
adventures of two little Dutch children in search of a fairy tulip. The
third, entitled ‘FUN IN THE FOREST,’ tells in a charming way the life
and adventure of animals in the field and forest. All three books are
embellished with attractive colored plates.”—_The Examiner, Chicago._
“Three attractive books for the little children, which will interest the
early Christmas shopper, are ‘TOM TIT TALES,’ ‘THE GREEN TULIP’ and ‘FUN
IN THE FOREST.’ The stories are by Gilly Bear and originally appeared in
a New York newspaper. The books are freely illustrated and the tales are
just what children enjoy.”—_The Call, San Francisco._
“‘THE GREEN TULIP’ and ‘FUN IN THE FOREST’ are two very good stories and
very long, as stories for the little people go, with excellent pictures
running through the text. They are both by Gilly Bear, illustrated by
Frances Brundage and published by Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company, New
York.”—_The Times, New York._
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● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).