Madeline Brandeis revisited

I had almost forgotten that I wrote about some of Madeline Brandeis' books ten years ago. I guess that's par for the course for my brain, which has been turned to oatmeal by current events, these days.

I thought I had just this week learned that the children's author was also a director, taking the helm of 1918's silent fairy tale film The Star Prince. But I guess I had known that, too, as I wrote in 2015: "In her amazing and too-short life, she was also a pioneer filmmaker. You can read about those efforts at the Women Film Pioneers Project." You can also read about Brandeis' The Star Prince in this review from one of my favorite film bloggers, Movies Silently. That review notes: "The story is heavily influenced by fairy tales and there are bad aspects to that as well as good. Equating beauty with goodness is not such a great lesson, nor is making the main villain a dwarf. I think Brandeis’s heart was in the right place but some of the decisions do not exactly work."

Anyway, I was reading up (refreshing my memory) about Brandeis because I'm selling some of her books on eBay as part of Resimplify Me. It's a small collection that includes volumes from her Children of All Lands and Children of America series for younger readers. Hopefully they will make nice additions to someone's collection.

As part of putting that listing together, I came across these neat old inscriptions in a few of the Brandeis books, which I'll share here for posterity...

Above: Inscription inside The Little Dutch Tulip Girls

Above: Inscription inside Little Rose of the Mesa.

Above: Inscription inside Little John of New England.