Dorothy's World: Childhood in Sabine Bottom, 1902-1910

U.S.A: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1977. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Family Bookshelf Edition. Hardcover Book in Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket. Clear archival protective jacket cover. Binding of Brown cloth, gilt titled; very clean and unmarked, wear to spine heel, shallow indentation to front lower edge, faint rubbing of lower corners, gutter rubbed. Faint pale spotting of text block edges. Internals very clean and completely free of any markings. Brown worn dust jacket with white titles, various darker brown and black illustrations of items from Dorothy's childhood memories. Very edgeworn. Dorothy's World is an attempt to recapture the experience of childhood by a woman who has made a lifelong study of children, how they see, learn about, and respond to the world. It is in the form of a personal memoir of the author's childhood on an East Texas farm at the turn of the century, done in the third person--The Dorothy Mills of the book is the author Dorothy Howard as a child. She captures what childhood was all about. The child Dorothy lived the same kind a daily life lived by every child in Sabine Bottom: she lived in the same kind of house, ate the same kind of food, played the same games, spoke the same language, had the same kind of human and animal relationships, learned the same basic facts about farm and home, parrticiapted in life in the same way. In the second section she attempts to explain in a straightforward way the kinds of knowledge that Dorothy is able to acquire in her first eight years. A unique, moving portrait of a time and place that will never be again--and of a perceptive, growing human spirit. 298 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977.