If I Were Small single work   poetry   children's   "If I were not the size I am"
Issue Details: First known date: 1920... 1920 If I Were Small
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A child contemplates the size of insects and plants if she were small and they large. She decides that it's better to be the size she is that suffer the terrifying risks of being smaller than the insects. There is a specific link to Lewis Carroll in text and accompanying illustration of a fez-capped hookah-smoking caterpillar reminiscent of the adventures in Alice in Wonderland.

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    y separately published work icon Cole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme Book Lillian M. Pyke , Percy Leason (illustrator), Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1920 Z846345 1920 selected work poetry children's A collection of original verse, some of which revisit well-known stories and rhymes and others that introduce Australian content, including a set of limericks about Victorian places. This collection has some specific leanings to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, both in the content of individual rhymes and in Leason's delightful illustrations. Cole's Happy Time Picture and Nursery Rhyme Book : A Jolly Book for Little Australians full of Bright Pictures Melbourne : E. W. Cole , 1920 pg. 4
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