This is one of my favorite books. Snipp, Snapp, and Snurr are the male counterparts to Flicka, Ricka, Dicka, with illustrations just as charming, and stories just as old-fashioned. In this tale of the "Big Surprise," the triplets mother leaves for a trip, and the boys decide to plan a surprise for her return. They decide to get her a chair, and so, they work to earn every element of the chair.
First, they volunteer to work for the local carpenter in exchange for his construction of the chair frame. They proceed to the uphosterer, where they clean his workroom in exchange for his services. And so on, through the linen drapers, and their nanny who sews the slipcover. I love the lesson this teaches, and wish our society was still structured in a way that could make this possible.
Please leave any good vintage read suggestions in the comments, and come back next week for more of the same!
The Story of the Snow Children by Von Olfers is a short book. The pictures are old fashioned and charming. The author, who is German, died in 1915 and it is still being published 100 years later! I think my mom read it to me when I was little. It has been republished along with her whole series of "children"...Root Children, Butterfly Children, Rabbit Children, Wind Children, etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Story-Snow-Children-Sibylle-Olfers/dp/0863159095/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365786346&sr=1-11
Posted by: Jen | 04/12/2013 at 01:10 PM