The Jolly Book of Boxcraft

Chapter 2: AUTHOR’S NOTE

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About This Book

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.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

“The Jolly Book of Boxcraft” has been enlarged and rewritten from work started in May, 1909. This work was purchased by St. Nicholas, Little Folks, Good Housekeeping, The Congregationalist and Christian World, The Designer, Holland’s Magazine, The Housekeeper, The Ladies’ Home Journal, The New York Herald, and The New York Tribune. Thanks are due to them for the courtesy of using material which was included in their articles.

The author feels that it is only right to acknowledge her indebtedness to the children themselves who have lent their toys and helped in many little ways of their own toward the making of this book. Special thanks are due to Elizabeth Hendricks, Raymon Guthrie, Henry Jarrett, Stanley Hoyt, and Wesley Meehan, playfellows.