The Teenie Weenies
William Donahey And Effie E. Baker. Beckley-Cardy Co., Chicago [published date: 1917]. The Beckley-Hardy Co. published two Teenie Weenies books as school primers, co-authored by Effie E. Baker. Boards have bumps and discoloration. Boards bent and corners and edges are frayed to cardboard, page 101 has a piece missing at the bottom does not effect text. Illustration page 94 has a closed tear 4 inchespage 66 has half of the page missing. Some pages have closed tears on bottom. Teenie Weenies stories were done in the form of text accompanying a single large picture. Unlike them, the text was prose rather than verse, a little short story each week about Donahey's diminutive players. The Teenie Weenies lived in a community underneath a rose bush, with edifices made from discarded hats, jugs, boxes and similar human-scale objects. They were named after their most salient characteristics: The Policeman, The Lady of Fashion, The Dunce, The Old Soldier with a Wooden Leg. .Media shipping is 4.00
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