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    THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN ITALY - Sisters Molly and May explore Italy with their parents: Children's Illustrated Adventures in Italy
    THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN ITALY - Sisters Molly and May explore Italy with their parents: Children's Illustrated Adventures in Italy
    THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN ITALY - Sisters Molly and May explore Italy with their parents: Children's Illustrated Adventures in Italy
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    THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN ITALY - Sisters Molly and May explore Italy with their parents: Children's Illustrated Adventures in Italy

    By Eulalie Osgood Grover and Illustrated by BERTHA CORBET MELCHER & JAMES MCCRACKEN

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    May and Molly are the Sunbonnet babies. In 1922, their father and mother have taken them on a holiday to Italy on board a passenger liner (transatlantic passenger air travel only began six years later on 11 October 1928 by the Graf Zepplin.) The story of their visit is told from a child’s perspective.

    Their first port of call is Naples where their first sight is Mt Vesuvius. On their way to visit the buried city of Pompeii they first call in at a museum to learn more about Pompeii and the famous explosion of 24 August 79AD.
    Their hotel room overlooks the port of Naples, one if the busiest ports on the Mediterranean Sea. Looking out over the harbour and all it’s ships, the girls wonder if any are pirate ships? Later they visit “the Humpbacked Island,” really the Isle of Capri, where they explore the island and a sea cave.

    Their next port of call is the City of Rome and all its sights where they learn the story of the city’s founding twins, Romulus and Remus and how Rome came to be.

    Then they then travel North where they learn about rural Italian life before visiting the Leaning Tower of Pisa. They travel on to Venice, which they call “The City in the Sea.” Their father takes them around the city sights and they have a strawberry ice-cream on the Piazza of St. Mark and visit the Ponte Vecchio where they do some shopping. They are fortunate enough to be invited to visit a Gondolier's Home.
    They pay a flying visit to the tall bell tower called the "Lily in Stone," and a cathedral in Florence before returning home.

    So, we invite you to curl up with this unique sliver of children’s literature not seen in print for many a year; and immerse yourself, and your children, in tales written for a far more gentler time.

    10% of the net sale will be donated to charities by the publisher.
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    Eulalie Osgood Grover, born June 22, 1873, in Mantorville, Minnesota before moving to Winter Park, Orlando, Florida in 1926. She lived there until she passed in 1958.  She is probably best known as the creator of a series of reading primers for young readers centered around the characters known as the "Sunbonnet Babies" which was a huge success and was widely accepted in public schools throughout the United states. In 1905 Miss Grover published a second series , The Overall Boys, which introduced little boy characters. Her European travels provided ideas and material for Sunbonnet Babies in Holland, Sunbonnet Babies in Italy, and Sunbonnet Babies in Switzerland. These titles were primarily textbooks and used in conjunction with geography classes by second and third grade children.
    Source: Winter Park Public Library pages
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    KEYWORDS/TAGS: fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, children’s stories, bygone era, fairydom, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, happy place, happiness, Sun-Man's Babies, Arrival, steamer, passenger liner, Naples, Drive, Strange Sights, Visit, Museum, Afternoon in the Park, Buried City, Pompeii, Pirates, Humpbacked Island, Capri, City, Rome, Twins, Romulus, Remus, Travel Adventures, City in the Sea, Venice, Gondolier, Home, House, May, Molly, Sunbonnet babies, Italy
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateMay 2, 2018
    ISBN9788828318194
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      THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN ITALY - Sisters Molly and May explore Italy with their parents - Eulalie Osgood Grover

      The Sunbonnet

      Babies In Italy

      By

      Eulalie Osgood Grover

      Illustrated by

      Bertha Corbet Melcher

      &

      James McCracken

      Originally Published by

      Rand McNally & Co., New York

      [1922]

      Resurrected by

      Abela Publishing, London

      [2018]

      THE SUNBONNET BABIES IN ITALY

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      © Abela Publishing

      2018

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      Contents

      The Arrival at Naples

      The First Drive

      Seeing Strange Sights

      A Visit to the Museum

      An Afternoon in the Park

      The Buried City

      A Long Drive

      Pirates

      The Humpbacked Island

      In the City of Rome

      The Story of the Twins

      Travel Adventures

      The City in the Sea

      The Gondolier's Home

      A Letter to the Boys and Girls

      Pronunciation Guide for Italian Words

      A map showing the places the Sunbonnet Babies visited in Italy

      THE SUNBONNET BABIES

      IN ITALY

      The Arrival at Naples

      See that smoking mountain, Molly! Look! I believe it is a volcano. It is Mount Vesuvius. Yes, I know it is Mount Vesuvius!

      May, the Sunbonnet Baby, was talking with Molly, her little Sunbonnet Baby sister. They were standing on the deck of a great ocean steamer. They had been sailing on the steamer for days and days. They had sailed more than four thousand miles away from their home in America. Now they were almost at the end of their journey. They would very soon be in Italy.

      The big steamer was moving slowly up the beautiful Bay of Naples, straight toward the busy, noisy city of Naples. Rising from the shore, not far away, was the smoking mountain of Vesuvius, about which the Sunbonnet Babies' father had told them such strange stories.

      He told them that Mount Vesuvius was like a great kettle full of boiling rock, that sometimes the fire under the kettle becomes so hot it boils over, covering the mountain sides and even the plains with melted rock and hot ashes. Such mountains, he said, are called volcanoes.

      Molly and May stood on the deck of the steamer eagerly watching the smoking volcano, wondering if it would ever boil over again.

      I almost wish it would boil over now! cried Molly. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see red-hot rock come right out of the top of the mountain and fall down all around it!

      Yes, it would be wonderful, said May, but I am sure I don't want to see it. The hot ashes might even reach us here on the steamer.

      Father says he will take us to see the old city of Pompeii, which was buried by Vesuvius nearly two thousand years ago. Men are digging away the ashes and cinders now, so we can see just how the people used to live.

      Pompeii must be right over there, said May

      Pompeii must be right over there near the foot of the mountain, said May. Isn't it strange to think that those trees and farms may be growing on top of an old, old city?

      Look at the big city just ahead of our boat! cried Molly. It is Naples. We are almost there!

      Why, the city is the shape of a big, new moon, said May. It curves right around the shore of this lovely, blue bay, and climbs up the hillside to meet the blue sky. Our boat is sailing straight in between the long points.

      O May! Do you suppose it is snowing at home to-day? It seems like summer here, but it is really the middle of March. The trees and the grass are all green. And there is a boat full of oranges and lemons just being unloaded.

      See that basketful of beautiful roses! I hope we can go ashore quickly. I want to buy a lovely red rose for mother to wear.

      Not many minutes later the happy travelers were hurrying from the big steamer. There were other travelers going ashore, too, and a crowd of noisy, jolly people seemed to be waiting for them. Most of the women and little girls were bareheaded and wore gay-colored dresses and aprons. They were very much interested in the strange travelers, especially in the two little Sunbonnet Babies.

      A smiling, brown-eyed Italian girl ran along beside them, peeping at the two happy faces hidden under the big sunbonnets, and talking very fast in a soft, sweet voice.

      They knew she liked them because she smiled so sweetly

      The Sunbonnet Babies could not understand one word she said, but they knew she liked them because she smiled so sweetly.

      If it had not been for this kind little girl, Molly and May might easily have been frightened. A great many men and boys were standing close about them shouting and swinging their arms, trying to get passengers for their carriages. Even the Sunbonnet Babies' father did not quite know what to do, so many men wanted to carry his bags for him.

      She took Molly and May each by the hand

      The little girl, seeing his trouble, looked up with a smile and asked him to follow her. She then took Molly and May each by the hand and led them through the crowd to a long line of carriages. In a moment a smiling, brown-eyed man was beside them, bowing and offering to drive them to their hotel.

      The little girl called the man il padre, which means father, and he spoke to her as Tessa mia, which means my Tessa. Indeed, the little girl looked so much like the brown-eyed man, it was easy to guess that she was his own little daughter. They had the same bright smile, the same soft voice, and the same kind manner.

      They each took a big brown penny out of their bags

      The travelers gladly stepped into the man's low carriage and told him where to drive them, saying a pleasant grazie to the little girl whom they were leaving behind. Yes, they did something more than just say thank you. They each took a big brown penny from their bags and dropped the pennies into Tessa's hand.

      Then they all three said grazie again, and laughed and waved their good-bys. The driver cracked his long whip, and the horses dashed away up the busy street.

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