Little Jeanne of France
LITTLE JEANNE OF FRANCE
LITTLE JEANNE |
COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PREFACE
When I began to write these stories about children of all lands I hadjust returned from Europe whither I journeyed with Marie and Ref. Maybeyou don't know Marie and Ref. I'll introduce them: Please meet Marie, myvery little daughter, and Ref, my very big reflex camera.
These two are my helpers. Marie helps by being a little girl who knowswhat other little girls like and by telling me; and Ref helps bysnapping pictures of everything interesting that Marie and I see on ourtravels. I couldn't get along without them.
Several years have gone by since we started our work together and Marieis a bigger girl—but Ref hasn't changed one bit. Ref hasn't changed anymore than my interest in writing these books for you. And I hope thatyou hope that I'll never change, because I want to keep on writinguntil we'll have no more countries to write about—unless, of course,some one discovers a new country.
Even if a new country isn't discovered, we'll find foreign children totalk about—maybe the children in Mars! Who knows? Nobody. Not evenMarie—and Marie usually knows about most things. That's the reason why,you see, though I sign myself