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Laddar... Honey Bunch: Her First Trip to a Big Fair (1923)av Helen Louise Thorndyke, Mildred Wirt Benson (Ghostwriter)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I was given several Honey Bunch books in 1964. Honey Bunch: Just a Little Girl was not among them. I have finally read it 48 years later and I think it's delightful. Although my copy is a later printing, I doubt that it was revised from the 1923 edition because the huckster and Mr. Jenson's coal delivery men use horses. Mrs. Morton can buy salad vegetables from the huckster. There are butcher shops with sawdust on the floor. Mrs. Morton can have their Thanksgiving turkey delivered to their home. The grocery store has a boy to deliver groceries to homes, too. Mrs. Miller comes to the Morton house on Mondays to wash their clothes in laundry tubs, using a washboard. The whites are first boiled in a tin boiler on the laundry stove. At least she has a wringer so she doesn't have to wring the clothes by hand. Also, in these days before air conditioning, Honey Bunch has a screened porch off her bedroom where she can sleep on warm nights. (I would have loved to have one of those when I was a child in the sixties and it was a big deal that we had an electric fan in the living room.) Gertrude 'Honey Bunch' Morton will have her 5th birthday early in December near the book. She's a nice little girl who lives in a nice house with both of her parents and her cat. Her father is a lawyer. There's not the slightest hint that he's anything but honest, which is refreshing. Besides these glimpses into the everyday ways of a middle-class American family who lived in town, we get to follow the fun Honey Bunch has with the other girls on her street. Sure, a cute little dog wrecks havoc at her tea party. Honey Bunch gets into well-meaning mischief. Then there's the problem of forgetting a visitor's name when he could help Daddy save lots of money... I remember making my first batch of cookies with tiny cookie cutters when I was 5. They didn't turn out well, but not for the same reason as Honey Bunch's first apple pie. Speaking of treats, wish I'd known the recipe for snow ice cream that Mrs. Miller teaches Honey Bunch and her best friend, Ida. This is a gentle book. If you like children's series from the earlier part of the 20th century, you should enjoy this. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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I suspect that the big fair Honey Bunch visits is the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, but that's not actually stated. I like the descriptions of the fair, especially Mrs. Toti's doll making, as well as the scene about making a talking letter.
I don't mind Honey Bunch being asked to buy dolls from other countries for a collection to be donated to the Barham Library. The greedy and dishonest Mr. Means is the kind of businessman I like to see lose out. I'm used to Norman Clark and Honey Bunch's cousin Stub getting into trouble. (The stunt Stub pulls when she tries to wash Lady Clare was a bit much. If it had been a 21st century washing machine, I doubt the poor cat would have survived.) I'm used to the Mortons' misplaced faith in leaving their daughter and friend/Stub in the care of some attendant in a public place. I suppose I shouldn't be outraged that a waiter allowed a child to order and eat five or six dishes of ice cream. Certainly the waiter doesn't seem to worry about getting sued even though that child was taken away in an ambulance.
I can grit my teeth over the way the Inuit family Honey Bunch befriends is depicted, especially the father's broken English. I don't believe in the power of the lost Inuit good-luck charm, either, but I think the Mortons were insensitive about the Inuits' belief. I also found it a tad hard to believe that only Honey Bunch could think of a way to keep the escaped polar bear from getting too close to a baby left in its carriage before the Inuit man shows up.
The incident that lowers my rating for this book is the Parade of Nations and Honey Bunch's role in it. I know these books are supposed to be wish fulfilment for their intended audience, but I still thought it went too far.
Remember Hilda, Honey Bunch's biggest doll? Hilda is her favorite doll in this book. Eleanor fans needn't worry, though. She's restored to her position as favorite doll in one of the later books.
Still, the book is worth reading.
By the way, of the 12 Louisa May Alcott books advertised at the end, I don't recall ever hearing of 'A Garland for Girls,' 'Kitty's Class Day,' 'Silver Pitchers,' and "Spinning Wheel Stories'. ( )