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A hands-on manual for creating an entire toy town and many playthings from cardboard boxes, offering materials lists, step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and photographic illustrations. Organized as a series of projects—cottages, shop, school, church, railway station, hotel, farm buildings, boats, wagons, animal enclosures, dolls’ furniture, games, and more—it guides children through cutting, assembling, decorating, and furnishing each model. Additional patterns, construction tips, and simple games encourage imaginative play, resourcefulness, and cooperative building, while emphasizing reuse of everyday materials.

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Title: The Jolly Book of Boxcraft

Author: Patten Beard

Illustrator: Elsie Dodge Pattee

Photographer: G. S. North

Release date: March 16, 2018 [eBook #56751]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by ellinora, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT ***

THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT


Boxville.


THE
JOLLY BOOK OF
BOXCRAFT
BY
PATTEN BEARD
With Sixty-eight Photographic Illustrations By G. S. North from
Models Made and Arranged by the Author and with
Twenty-three Diagrams by E. D. Pattee
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1914, by
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
All rights reserved

THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
ALL LITTLE CHILDREN
AND TO
“NIMBLEFINGERS,” “HAPPY THOUGHT”
AND “PLAY”