FLAXIE GROWING UP: Flaxie Frizzle Stories #6. by May, Sophie ( Rebecca Sophia Clarke,1833-1906) - (c 1884.)

Boston:: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd,, (c 1884.). Hardcover -. Good overall in tan illustrated boards (some shelfwear to the boards, corners slightly bumped, contents clean and binding sturdy.).. Early printing. The last title in the Flaxie Frizzle series, the fourth series of books about "real" children published under this pseudonym by this very popular Maine author. In reviewing the Little Prudy series, Thomas Wentworth Higginson said "Genius comes in with 'Little Prudy'. Compared with her, all other book-children are cold creations of literature only; she alone is the real thing. All the quaintness of childhood, its originality, its tenderness, and its teasing,--its infinite, unconscious drollery, the serious earnestness of its fun, the fun of its seriousness, the natural religion of its plays, and the delicious oddity of its prayers,--all these waited for dear little Prudy to embody them." I remember loving these books (reading copies that had been in the family for generations) when I was a child - I wonder if anyone still reads them today. One glossy plate. 202 pp plus 4 pp of advertisements.