Books published by publisher Doubleday, Doran and Company, inc

This is not a Print-on-Demand or facsimile book. It is a hardcover published with a dust jacket and ink artwork to tan cloth boards. It was published by the Junior Literary Guild and Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934 New York. It has a 1925 by Doubleday, Doran & Company. It was printed at the Country Life Press, Garden City, NY. It has seven full color illustrations by Arthur Rackham and numerous black and white illustrations. Poor Cecco longs to explore the world beyond the toy box, so the spunky wooden dog determines to conduct a treasure hunt. Join Bulka, the woeful rag puppy, cheerful Harlequin, Easter Chicken, greedy Money-Pig, and other spirited toys for a host of adventures, from a run-in with some ducks and a battle with a tribe of feisty rats to a dance to a country fiddle and a party with a friendly family of woodchucks. But beware of wicked Murrum, the black cat, who knows all of the household secrets. Margery Williams Bianco, the author of The Velveteen Rabbit, returns to the secret life of toys with this enchanting story.

van Lyon was a career soldier in the British Army who was bored by routine military life. Once he proved it by having a massive, ferocious tiger tattoed on his chest. Later, after he had escaped from Singapore in 1942, a purpose in life came to him. It was to repay the Japanese for their cruelty in the Malayan Campaign. He did it well. Organizing an irregular force he returned to Singapore in 1943 in small boats, placing mines on anchored shipping. Seven vessels went down. A year later he tried again with small ""canoe"" submarines, but was discovered and killed. The men with him were executed, but not before two of them had managed to cover 2000 miles in a small open boat in an escape attempt. The story is told sparely, in good taste, and yet with not too much attempt to understand Lyon the ""tiger"". Details of both raids, and of the painful trial of the captured men just before the close of the War, add colorful history to the writing done about the Pacific conflict.