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Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet : ウィキペディア英語版 | Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet
''Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet'' is an illustrated picture book for children published in 1850s.〔 ==Publication==
Published at Clinton Hall in New York in the 1850s,〔''Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet'', pg. 3.〕 ''Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet'' is an illustrated chapbook consisting of a rhyming English alphabet; considered part of the New England Primer.〔Carpenter, pg. 43.〕 It was the first book in the first of the "Redfield's Toy Books" series, a four-part series of 48 children's books.〔 The selling price for ''Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet'' was 1 cent.〔 The woodcut engravings, designed by J. G. Chapman,〔 were considered plain and simple illustrations.〔 Printed on seven pages, ''Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet'' book height was .〔 It also features an advertisement for other J. S. Redfield publications for toy books, school books, and medical books.〔''Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet'', pg. 12.〕 It was advertised in many publications, including ''The consumptive's guide to health'',〔''The consumptive's guide to health'', pg. 185.〕 ''Americans warned of Jesuitism'',〔Pitrat, pg. 11.〕 and others. ''Tom Thumb's Picture Alphabet'' is considered one of several schoolbooks of the early 19th century in competition, during a period where there was a great expansion of educational books for children made available.〔Goetzmann, pg. 127.〕 A review from the ''School Library Journal'' is mixed, saying that while some of the book provided "a tidy sentence for each letter," other words used in the rhyme schemes would either be unfamiliar to many children, or they would "stretch to rhyme."〔''School Library Journal'', pg. 124.〕
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