Books with author William Downey

ADVENTURES of the TEENIE WEENIES 1920 edition with 65 illustrations The Great classic series of Children's stories about a group of tiny people with all the original illustrations. The Teenie Weenies are people two inches tall who live under a rose bush with "real world" size materials made from discarded objects like hats, jars, barrels, kegs, and boxes - all of which were gigantic to them. Each Teenie Weenie has a unique personality that both names them and defines how they interact with the world and each other. The General is in charge and runs the tiny village, the Cook of course is in charge of food, the Fireman, the Policeman, The Turk, the Indian, The Cowboy, the Chinese Man, Grandma, Grandpa, The Lady of Fashion and many many more have many adventures. In this book: - story with the Eastern egg - surviving the rain and flood - helping the bird and the mouse - fighting an enemy - great ball - more than 30 stories in total

Excerpt from Teenie Weenie NeighborsTH E Teenie Weenies have a great many pleasant neighbors among the birds, chipmunks, mice, squirrels, and rabbits that live near Teenie Weenie Town. One reason for this is that the town stands in a great tangle of weeds, briers, and bushes where big people never go. Small animals and birds live in this brushy spot for exactly the same reason as the Teenie Weenies - to keep out of the way of big folks.It isn't because they dislike big people that the Teenie Weenies and their neighbors choose this tangled spot, but because they are all so very small. Most-big people would never think of harming little creatures but they are often careless, and a very simple thing sometimes becomes a great accident to such small folks.Once a careless boy threw a snowball into the thicket where the Teenie Weenie town stands. The ball landed near the Chinaman's laundry and rolled into the old teapot, completely wrecking the tiny steps that lead up to the doorway. If the Chinaman had been standing on those steps, it would have been the last of that quaint little chap. A banana peel is tossed aside very easily by big people, but if it should fall on a Teenie Weenie that would be just as dangerous to him as it would be for a big person to have half the roof of a large house hit him. It takes three or four of the strongest Teenie Weenies to drag a banana peel over the ground.Big people are very curious about small animals and birds and often try to catch them. That is why the birds and animals almost always live in places where big people seldom go. Many big people would love to capture a Teenie Weenie and keep it in a cage, but a Teenie Weenie would not like that any more than a big person would like to be caught by a giant. That is one of the reasons why Teenie Weenies keep out of sight.Living so near to the birds and small animals, the Teenie Weenies naturally make friends with these neighbors. The little people have found out that the birds and animals can be most neighborly and helpful, and the Teenie Weenies often help the birds and animals too. Nick, the squirrel, is one of their close friends. He helps the Teenie Weemes dig their vegetables with his sharp claws. He sometimes pulls their sled when they are storing up nuts for winter use, and the Teenie Weenies help Nick gather nuts for his own storehouse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This travelogue was published in 1883 and explores the cities, customs and charms of 19th century Spain. Chapters: I. Introductory II. Paris to Burgos III. Burgos IV. First Bullfight V. Burgos to Madrid VI. Madrid VII. The Picture Gallery VIII. Madrid to Seville IX. Seville X. Pictures in Seville XL Seville to Granada XII. The Seven Floors XIII. The Alhambra, with a Legend XIV. Granada XV. Cordova XVI. Back in the Capital XVII. The Escorial XVIII. Literature of the Bull Ring XIX. Bayonne, Biarritz, and Pau XX. Pau to Eaux-Bonnes XXL Eaux-Bonnes XXII. Eaux-Chaudes XXIII. The Plateau of Bious-Artigues ............................................................................... Some excerpts: FIRST BULL-FIGHT: It will be many years before public opinion demands or permits the abolition of the national amusement. You are told by a certain class of Spaniards, who are inclined to be very sensitive and self-conscious, that bull fighing as an institution is falling into merited disrepute; that they themselves consider it bar- barous and disgusting, and that it will not be long before it will be abolished; in proof of which they point out the efforts constantly making in the Cortes for the legal prohibition of the sport. The people who talk in this way are, I think, perfectly sincere; but they are in a very small minority. New rings have lately been built in many towns, and fine arenas are supported by comparatively small cities. That the opponents of bull fighting form but a very inconsiderable proportion of even the higher classes in Spain is demonstrated by the practical unanimity with which the aristocracy and the well-to-do folk of the large cities present themselves in their upholstered boxes each Sunday afternoon, in precisely the same way that the belles and swells of London or Paris drop in at the opera on subscription rights; and by the foundation, in 1882, of a new periodical devoted exclusively to the arte taurino. ............................................................................... MADRID: You are told that the capital is one of the most uninteresting towns in the whole country. The people of the old Andalusian cities, and the thrifty Catalans, despise the "mushroom metro- polis". Much that is said against Madrid may be true, but then the picture gallery is there! The other cities may point to the glories of the past, but the Museo is a glory of today and unites the proud past of Spain with her future possibilities. Madrid is , it may be admitted, less distinctively Spanish in character than the other large citries, and for that very reason it is in many respects a more comfortable place of residence. It has the best hotels in Spain, and modern com- forts and conveniences can be had by paying for them. the Fonda de la Paz indeed is, though expensive, the only first- rate hotel in Spain, unless the acconts of travelers are un- trustworthy. .............................................................................. Seville is undoubtedly the most Spanish of all Spanish towns. The streets are very narrow and crooked, and the houses are all either whitewashed or painted a very light pink, blue or green shade, which contributes not a little to the intolerable glare. In some of the streets awnings are suspended from roof to roof, so that you may drive under a canopy for some little distance protected from the sun's rays. The houses have patios, or interior courts, surrounded by balconies, and in the dwellings of the rich these are very beautiful, being paved with marble tiles and ornamented by tropical trees and plants, fountains and flowers. The open-work iron gates leading from the street to the patios permit the passerby to obtain charming glimpses of these refresing spots.

The Teenie Weenies is a comic strip created and illustrated by William Donahey that first appeared in 1914 in the Chicago Tribune and ran for over 50 years. It consisted of normal-size objects intermingled with tiny protagonists. The comic strip characters were two inches tall and lived under a rose bush. They lived with "real world" size materials made from discarded objects like hats, jars, barrels, kegs, and boxes – all of which were gigantic to them.The strip was inspired by Palmer Cox's The Brownies and was done in the form of text with a single large picture. Unlike the Brownies where the text was written in verse, Donahey wrote in prose. The Teenie Weenies first appeared in black and white in the women's section of the Chicago Tribune on June 14, 1914. This first story was of the Top Hat house burning down. The comic strip ran as a one panel story with a picture until 1923. It then moved to the comics page as a strip cartoon. Color versions soon appeared in the magazine section of the newspaper printed in rotogravure.Donahey drew the comic strip until October 26, 1924 when it was then temporarily discontinued. Donahey's comic characters then went into advertising when the newspaper feature was stopped. It was then a symbol for Reid Murdock. Donahey did advertising for them in The Saturday Evening Post and on their Monarch canned foods line.Several books of the strip comic characters were also published by Beckley-Cardey Company and Reilly & Lee. In an effort to stimulate new interest in the Teenie Weenies, Reid Murdock and Company in 1927 issued an eight-page pamphlet called The Teenie Weenies: Their Book. On September 24, 1933, the daily comic strip was added again to the Chicago Tribune newspaper. It went then only for about a year and was suspended again on December 2, 1934.In 1940 and 1941 four of The Teenie Weenies books were reprinted. On May 18, 1941, the Sunday comic strip feature came back permanently. It continued until Donahey's death. During this third time that it was published, two sets of reprints came out. Whittlesy House published three books between 1942 and 1945. Ziff-Davis published two standard-size comic books in 1950 and 1951. Donahey retired in 1969. The last newspaper comic strip episode appeared February 15, 1970. Donahey died February 2 of the same year and never saw the last episode published.Donahey's comic strip characters tended to be named after their most prominent characteristics, examples being the Sailor, the Chinese man, the Cook, the Policeman, the Lady of Fashion, the Dunce, the Old Soldier with a Wooden Leg, etc. Each character had a personality accordingly which was not just based on their clothing. According to John D. Taylor, a founding member of the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, there were 45 members of the Teenie Weenie village.

This book is a great book for a young yearning mind. Both the experienced early reader to mid grade reader will enjoy this story. I wrote this book from my own personal experience. It is an adventure that kids will love. It introduces the young person to nature. It also expresses the interactions between young children and the environment. There are many short stories within the one story. The two main characters Tommy and Joey learn from one another. The book contains about 5700 words so please use that as a guide for the reader.

Young children love the delightful little Teenie Weenies, who are a kindly, clever, jolly folk, always ready and anxious to do a kind deed. In their snug little home beneath a friendly rosebush the Teenie Weenies live a happy life, filled with pleasant everyday happenings and also with an occasional adventure. The Dunce, forever getting into trouble; Mr. and Mrs. Lover and the Twins; the General, always fearless and brave; the Lady of Fashion, the Cowboy, and the Chinaman —these and all the other Teenie Weenies are such fascinating characters that every young child will want to read more and more stories about them.

Lang- eng, PAGES 79 It is the reproduction of the original edition published long back. Hardcover with sewing binding with glossy laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, professionally processed without changing its contents.We found this book important for the readers who want to know about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Print on Demand.

H. L. Menchen, "Bayard vs. Lionheart" Baltimore Evening Sun-Sunday 26 July 1920 said: "As democracy is perfected, the office of the president will more closely represent the inner soul of the people. On some great, and glorious day, the plain folks of our land will reach their hearts desire, at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron!"