copyright 1935; Grosset & Dunlap publishers, New York; hardbound; book very good condition with unmarked pages; boards very good; dust jacket good with minor edge wear and tear; protected by archival Brodart cover; in publisher's original illustrated paper covered boards with blue cloth spine, illustrated end papers; contains 159 printed pages of large text with monochrome photographs throughout.
 
description -
Madeline (Frank) Brandeis, born and educated in San Francisco, traveled the world in search of stories to tell, aiming the lens of her camera at the lives of her characters. 
 
plot -
Part children's book, part travelogue.  "Little English Tom and little American Bob met, fought and became friends on the great steamer that took them from New York to Plymouth [England]. Bob and his mother were going to travel to England - Tom, working his way across as a page boy."And it was Tom's glowing tales of England's history, her heroes and her beauties, that gave Bob a keener appreciation of the glamourous places he visited - Stonehenge, Clovelly, Stratford-on-Avon - and the great city of London."Through all his sightseeing Bob thought of the English lad who had taught him so much - but who had seemingly made away with Bob's mother's precious locket. Little did the Americans know under what difficulties Tom was struggling to return it to them!"