When I was a child we had The Dutch Twins (her first book), The Eskimo Twins, and The Puritan Twins. I cherished them all. These books by Lucy Fitch Perkins (born in 1865) are unquestionably dated today, but still achieve their original goal of making children curious about how other children live all around the world. I think many of these titles are well worth tracking down!
And, according to this Los Angeles Times interview, The Dutch Twins was the book that made Beverly Cleary -- who detested the first grade early readers she was given in school -- start reading as a child and come to LOVE it!
this book, for sale on eBay, includes a signed letter
from the author to the child, dated 1931!
Here are all of the Twins books Lucy Fitch Perkins wrote, with links to the ones I have found online for free:
Geographical series
The Dutch Twins (1911)
PDF from heritage-history.com
audio recording from LibriVox
The Japanese Twins (1912)
PDF from heritage-history.com
The Irish Twins (1913)
HathiTrust digital library
The Eskimo Twins (1914)
PDF from heritage-history.com
The Mexican Twins (1916)
PDF from heritage-history.com
The French Twins (1918)
PDF from heritage-history.com
The Scotch Twins (1919)
PDF from heritage-history.com
audio recording from LibriVox
The Italian Twins (1920)
archive.org
The Swiss Twins (1922)
PDF from heritage-history.com
The Filipino Twins (1923)
HathiTrust digital library
The Farm Twins (1928)
The Pickaninny Twins (1931)
The Chinese Twins (1934)
archive.org
The Norwegian Twins (1933)
The Spanish Twins (1934)
archive.org
The Dutch Twins and Little Brother (1938)
The Dutch Twins Primer
HathiTrust digital library
Historical series
The Cave Twins (1915)
HathiTrust digital library
audio recording from LibriVox
The Spartan Twins (1918)
PDF from heritage-history.com
The Puritan Twins (1921)
PDF from heritage-history.com
The Colonial Twins of Virginia (1924)
archive.org
The American Twins of 1812 (1925)
HathiTrust digital library
The American Twins of The Revolution (1926)
The Pioneer Twins (1927)
archive.org
The Indian Twins (1938)
The Belgian Twins (1917)
PDF from heritage-history.com
audio recording from LibriVox
Note: I have moved The Belgian Twins to History because it takes place during WWI. Lucy Fitch Perkins wrote in the Preface, "This story of two little Belgian refugees is based upon the actual experience of two Belgian children, and the incident of the locket is quite true."
Immersive Experience
Immersive Experience
Immersive Experience
1 comment:
I love those books myself and have read many of them to my children when they were little. Thanks for all the links!
Post a Comment