The Admiral'S Caravan 1909

This children's story follows the adventures of Dorothy, a young girl in her wanderings through a fantasy world. The book was illustrated by Reginald B. Birch.Reginald Bathurst Birch (May 2, 1856 - June 17, 1943) was an English-American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel Little Lord Fauntleroy, which started a craze in juvenile fashion. While his illustrated corpus has eclipsed his other work, he was also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes......................... Charles Edward Caryl (December 30, 1841 - July 3, 1920) was an American children's literature author. Biography Born in New York, Carryl became a second-generation successful businessman; and a stockbroker, who for 34 years starting in 1874 held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1869 he married Mary Wetmore. Their elder child was the poet and humorist Guy Wetmore Carryl. In 1882 Charles E. Carryl published his first work: Stock Exchange Primer. In 1884 he published the children's fantasy Davy and the Goblin; or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," serialized in the magazine St Nicholas. His work includes the children's nonsense poem "The Walloping Window Blind," published in 1885, in a verse style similar to Lewis Carroll's: A capital ship for an ocean trip/Was the Walloping Window-Blind;/No wind that blew dismayed her crew/Or troubled the captain's mind. A second novel, The Admiral's Caravan, also serialized in St Nicholas beginning in December 1891, was dedicated to his daughter Constance.

• | Author: Charles Edward Carryl, Reginald B. Birch
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 68 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1717537707
• | ISBN-13: 9781717537706