A Host of Children James Whitcomb Riley Ethel Franklin Betts Illustrations 1920

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For sale is the book A Host of Children by James Whitcomb Riley with illustrations in color (all plates present) by Ethel Franklin Betts published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1920.
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was
an American writer, poet, and best-selling author
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During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental. Of the approximately 1,000 poems Riley wrote, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".
Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (1880-1956) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
As the sister of Anna Whelan Betts, Ethel followed the same patterns as her exemplary sibling, first studying art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and later enrolling in the Howard Pyle illustration classes at Drexel Institute and then later in Wilmington, Delaware at the Howard Pyle School of Art which she attended in 1900.
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