McLoughlin Bros. (1854–1951)

This book is, at present, in no other collection in The Library Thing, but it was found in the Antiquarian Society list. It is described by my father-in-law, Marlin Cline, as follows:
This was Marlin Cline's special book from the time he was four or five years old. We do not know whether Samson and Amy [parents] scraped together the 25 cents to buy it for him or it may have ]been done for Valona, his sister, some years earlier. In any event, it was read and reread to Marlin and, later, Arvad [brother] by the dim kerosene lamp during long winter evenings, while the wood-burning stove baked the family on one side as they chilled on the other.… (más)

So this is how the expression "Goody Two Shoes" became popularized?!?

I came across this children's tale through the Project Gutenberg Internet Archive and I decided I wanted to read a bedtime story before falling asleep last night so I decided on this one. Originally published by John Newberry in 1765, this is a simple, moralistic tale about the characteristics of what society deemed the idealistically virtuous person at that time. I chuckled at the obviously allegorical names used by the anonymous storyteller - Margery Meanwell, Sir Thomas Gripe and Farmer Graspall (the very greedy one of course!).

...But of course, this is a period piece as the reward of the virtuous person was a popular theme in children's literature when it was written. Fun to read this blast from the past!… (más)