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Vol. 7 No. 1 of The Storybook Home Journal
An Alcott Christmas
What's in this issue?
Pleasantly Combined the Decorating article
Ideas for creating Christmas tree ornaments, including pomanders, gilded pine cones and nuts, and paper ornaments. Includes Victorian-style paper ornament for copying. Instructions for creating a splendid tree. Illustrations contain an excerpt from a painting by Friedrich Ortlieb.
Mother-Wit the Hearth article
Instructions for creating sugar-plum horns made of paper (also known as cornucopias).
Boiled Dinner the Kitchen article
Recipes for New England boiled dinner, sour cream and mustard sauce, Anadama bread, and Christmas grahams. Includes for creating wreath-shaped bread rolls.
The Dear Old Songs the Music article
Sheet music for unaccompanied, vocal duet of I Saw Three Ships. Also includes a piano solo arrangement of Ay Walkin' O.
What Flowers Shall I Send You? the Garden article
Ideas for floral Christmas gifts, including bulbs and bouquets. Illustrations include a painting by William Jabez Muckley.
A Liking For Pretty Things the Workshop article
Ideas for creating a built-in, kitchen counter space for such uses as baking. Includes a trompe l'eoil floral painting.
An Alcott Advent the Bookshelf article
Creating an Alcott Christmas: Christmas reading advent from Alcott books, a Christmas reader's theater, and lyrics to O The Beautiful Old Story. Presents full-color excerpts from five of Clara M. Burd's illustrations for a 1928 edition of An Old Fashioned Girl.
Living Richly Without Being Rich the Attic article
Three reproducible gift tags. An Austrian bone china tureen. Victorian paper ornaments. Cookie stamps.
My Own Little Orchard House the Veranda article
Reader Carol Cordiale describes her Orchard House doll house.
To The End Of His Days the Writer's Garret article
Seymore Wainscott's biography of his father, part 6.
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By Al R. Young Reviewed by Nancy Young
Eight Cousins, and its sequel Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott tell the sweet story of Rose Campbell, an orphaned heiress who lives with her two maiden Aunts, Peace and Plenty, and her guardian Uncle Alec. The eight cousins refer to herself and the seven boy cousins who all live within a happy — and sometimes not-so-happy — distance from one another.
Eight Cousins commences at Rose's first coming to live at "Aunt Hill", and chronicles the ensuing year of her growth from a somewhat indulged and self-centered thirteen-year-old to an active and thoughtful young woman... Read more »
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By Nancy Young
In Louisa May Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl, countrified Polly Milton comes to visit the rich and elegant Shaw family in the city. Fanny, Tom, and Maud Shaw are all indulged, selfish children oblivious to a world beyond fashion and frippery. Mrs. Shaw is equally vain, but Mr. Shaw, the hard-working provider of their excesses, is sensible and considerate. He and his mother, who resides with them, are the only members of the family who seem to recognize the value of Polly's unaffected, trustworthy goodness... Read more »
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By Al R. Young Reviewed by Nancy Young
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's chronicles of the four March sisters, is sometimes joined into one large tome, or divided into the two original books: Little Women and Good Wives. The wonderful sense of period and the magic of simple pleasures is woven into the story of a family impoverished as a result of their father's absence during the Civil War. The joys they find in a loving and creative family life, as well as the individual growth each experiences through small trials and large, comprises one of the major pieces of American juvenile literature... Read more »
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By Al R. Young The An Alcott Christmas issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios. This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - Pleasantly Combined (1 page)Hearth - Mother-Wit (2 pages)Kitchen - Boiled Dinner (1 page)Music - The Dear Old Songs (1 page)Garden - What Flowers Shall I Send You? (3 pages)Workshops - A Liking For Pretty Things (1 page)Bookshelf - An Alcott Advent (2 pages)Attic - Living Richly Without Being Rich (1 page)Veranda - My Own Little Orchard House (1 page)Garret - To The End Of His Days (3 pages)An Alcott Christmas is the 43rd issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »
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