Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax

Ethel Clere Chamberlin, Janet Laura Scott

• Publisher: Muriwai Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789123289
• Year: 2019

This is a delightful children's book from the 1920s that answers all those questions that kids like to ask, wonderfully told through 33 individual stories.
With plenty of beautiful, vibrantly-colored illustrations throughout, this book is sure to be a hit with any inquisitive young minds.
"For Bobby and Sister Sue had found that, though it was many years since Great Grandfather had been a boy like Bobby, he was as interested as he ever was in all the things that boys like. And because he had lived so many years and had seen so many marvelous things, and had been to war, and ship-wrecked too, he always had many wonderful tales to tell. Bobby and Sister Sue firmly believed that he knew everything.
"And so, this book is all about those stories that Great Grandfather told to Bobby and Sister Sue: stories that are so interesting to boys, and girls, too, because they are true, about the things that are and things that really happened."

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• HOW THE STORIES HAPPENED TO BE TOLD
• THE STORY OF THE FRAM
• PENGUINS
• TIPPING THE HAT
• ABOUT THIMBLES
• PIANOS
• NEWSPAPERS
• THE OLDEST WRITING
• THE PRINTING PRESS
• AUTOMOBILES
• IN GOD WE TRUST
• THE WHITE HORSE IN BERKSHIRE
• THE STORY OF RUBBER
• THE ERIE CANAL
• THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL
• THE LIGHTHOUSE
• UNCLE SAM
• ABOUT BLOTTERS
• THE ATLANTIC GABLE
• ABOUT SHOES
• ABOUT SPOONS
• SUBMARINES
• STEAMBOATS
• ABOUT TYPEWRITERS
• THE FIRST SLEEPING CAR
• ABOUT AIRPLANES
• ABOUT PINS
• ABOUT WINDOW PANES
• FROM PINE KNOTS TO ELECTRIC LIGHTS
• THE PEACE BRIDGE
• HOW THE BEAVERS SAVED A TOWN
• SEALING WAX
• ABOUT TOTEM POLES
• HIAWATHA-MAKER OF THE WΑΜΡUΜ
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER