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Babes in Toyland

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Don't let any of today's youngsters know that this book exists--they would hoot in derision! Yet this luxury edition of the 1903 musical operetta by Victor Herbert includes some music. The illustrations by Victoria Lisi will delight the reader as well. This volume has preserved the script and even lists the turn-of-the-century cast.

This is a sugary tale about stereotyped rich and hateful villain who is trying to force a sweet young thing to marry him. Many children (and even some toys) help foil the village miser when he invades the sanctity and threatens the innocence of Toyland itself. The script abounds in terrible puns and a simplistic plot, which would be virtually impossible for modern kids to appreciate.

Toys and dolls cooperate with a kindly toymaker to efect a rescue, as the youngsters from Mother Goose Land flee to Toyland, in order to further their dreams and escape their nightmares. Thehe little old Toymaker speaks as the true spirit of Christmas about the importance of bringing joy to young children. Browse this lovely edition whenever you want to return to those ingenuous days of a sinpler era--ah, sweet Childhood!