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• 1 2020-04-27T18:20:19+00:00 Books to Entertain 10 plain 2020-08-11T19:33:02+00:00 ntertainment for young and old was provided by books describing indoor and outdoor games and amusements. Books of puzzles, memory challenges, and fireside contests were usually written for an undifferentiated audience of boys, girls, and adults of both sexes. But as publishers began thinking in terms of distinct markets, publications for a female readership appeared: games designed for girls, DIY paper dolls, and books with patterns and instructions for domestic handicrafts.
  
  The author of the Hieroglyphick Bible interspersed accounts of creation and salvation and moral passages from the Bible with rebuses — popular at the time in other children’s publications — in an attempt to interest children both in reading and in holy scriptures.
  The Gaping Wide-Mouthed Waddling Frog is a memory game where players add a couplet on each repeat (like the "Twelve Days of Christmas") to build up to a 150-word long nonsense rhyme.
  The Whim Wham exemplifies inexpensive books of riddles, anagrams, and word puzzles for a lone reader or a company; the “Enigmatical Bouquet” gives clues that produce the name of a flower. The answer to II is foxglove — see if you can figure out the rest!
  Cousin Lively’s Picture Book of Nice Little Games for Nice Little Girls offers a variety of active games for inside play, as well as instructions for jumping rope, tag, and lawn bowling.
  Paper Dolls and How to Make Them is the first American book on homemade versions of the toy; the anonymous author explains how “out of an old card, and a few bits of colored paper … a child can create for herself a world of enjoyment.”
• 1 2020-07-22T16:59:51+00:00 Cousin Lively’s Picture Book of Nice Little Games for Nice Little Girls 3 plain 2020-08-11T15:09:25+00:00
  
  Cousin Lively (pseudonym). Cousin Lively’s Picture Book of Nice Little Games for Nice Little Girls. London: Dean & Son, 1859.
  
  Nice Little Games for Nice Little Girls was one of several volumes of amusements issued by Dean & Sons in the 1850s and 60s.  Other books in the Mamma and Papa Lovechild series included Nice Little Games for Nice Little Boys, Picture Book of Games and Pastimes (for older children), and The Pleasing Book of Boy’s Sports. Dean offered many books in series, often named after a “relative” – Sister Lady-Bird, Brother Sunshine, and so on. These rather similar books are differentiated by the gender and age of their prospective audiences. Our book is distinctly meant for girls, and it provides a number of clues for the modern reader about what that meant to the anonymous compiler. Read more about this book on our blog.
  
  Or read the entire work at the Internet Archive.