Books with author Perkins Lucy Fitch 1865-1937

“Up with ye, me brave buccaneer,” said Barney, giving him a poke in the ribs with an oar he had in his hand. “If you want to make your escape from that Dutchman, ye’d better be stirring yer stumps. It’s sunup and me gallant ship sails in a few minutes.” Thus begins the adventure of young Jonathan Ogden as he is forced to flee the rough treatment to which he is subjected on a Pennsylvania farm where he was “bound out” following the untimely death of his parents. To make matters worse, he must leave behind his dear twin sister, Phoebe, who has been taken in by a Quaker family. His mind filled with stories of George Washington and the Revolution, told to him by his grandfather on winter evenings in the kitchen of his old home, Jonathan sets sail with his new friend and unlikely benefactor, Patrick Ambrose Barney. He soon finds himself in the path of the seemingly invincible sea-power of Great Britain, somehow ending up in a heroic battle on “Old Ironsides.” However, the greatest battle will be fought in the lessons Jonathan learns about loyalty, patriotism and friendship in early America. Join Jonathan and Phoebe on a nautical adventure in The American Twins of 1812, by Lucy Fitch Perkins and experience history through the eyes of a brother and sister in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.

The Swiss twins follows the Shepardic lifestyle of the Swiss twins family. Meet Leneli and Seppi as they learn to be shepherds and have adventures together in the Alps. They experience a landslide and have to navigate their way home through the Mountains. Descriptive language of the natural beauty of Switzerland. A historical children’s classic set in the early 1900’s The story has added enjoyment because of imaginative illustrations done by the author. The 13th Book in the “Twins” Series. Illustrated

Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately set to work making sketches and preparing the idea for presentation. The publisher came to dinner at their house the next evening and she showed him the idea. His response was immediate “go ahead and write it, and I want it”. That book was The Dutch Twins, the first in what became a long running and wildly popular series. Here we publish that very book.

CONTENTS I. GRANNIE MALONE AND THE TWINS . II. THE TEA-PARTY . . . . III. THE TALE OF THE LEPRECHAUN IV. THE TINKERS . . . . V. THE TWINS GET HOME . VI. HOW THEY WENT TO THE BOG . VII. THE BOG . . . . VIII. "DlDDY"IX. THE SECRET . X. SCHOOL . * * ^ % XI. THE FAIR 123 XII. HOW THEY SOLD THE PlG .... 133 XIII. WHAT THEY SAW 145 XIV. SUNDAY . ..... 161 XV. MR. MCQUEEN MAKES UP HIS MlND . . .171 XVI. MR. MCQUEEN PAYS THE RENT . . . l8l TWENTY YEARS AFTER . . . . .197

Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately set to work making sketches and preparing the idea for presentation. The publisher came to dinner at their house the next evening and she showed him the idea. His response was immediate “go ahead and write it, and I want it”. That book was The Dutch Twins, the first in what became a long running and wildly popular series. Here we publish another in the series 'The Eskimo Twins'.

Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately set to work making sketches and preparing the idea for presentation. The publisher came to dinner at their house the next evening and she showed him the idea. His response was immediate “go ahead and write it, and I want it”. That book was The Dutch Twins, the first in what became a long running and wildly popular series. Here we publish another in that series 'The Mexican Twins'.

CONTENTS I. THE RESPONSIBLE CUCKOO II. THE TWINS LEARN A NEW TRADE in. A MOUNTAIN STORM IV. THE LONELY HERDSMAN V. THE PASS VI. NEW FRIENDS AND OLDTHE RESPONSIBLE CUCKOO HIGH on the kitchen wall of an old farm house on a mountain-side in Switzerland there hangs a tiny wooden clock. In the tiny wooden clock there lives a tiny wooden cuckoo, and every hour he hops out of his tiny wooden door, takes a look about to see what is going on in the world, shouts out the time of day, and pops back again into his little dark house, there to wait and tick away the minutes until it is time once more to tell the hour. Late one spring afternoon, just as the sun was sinking out of sight, lighting up the snow-capped mountains with beautiful colors and sending long shafts of golden light across the valleys, the cuckoo woke with a start.

Lucy Fitch Perkins was forty-eight when she was approached by a publisher friend who, impressed by her talents as both an illustrator and writer, which he knew through correspondence, urged her to write. He was so earnest that she thought of an idea for a children’s book the next morning, and she immediately set to work making sketches and preparing the idea for presentation. The publisher came to dinner at their house the next evening and she showed him the idea. His response was immediate “go ahead and write it, and I want it”. That book was The Dutch Twins, the first in what became a long running and wildly popular series. Here we publish another in the series 'The Belgian Twins'.