Bodleian Libraries: Book Spines Great Girls (Foiled Journal) Interactive and then young readers journey

and then young readers journey toward tuck-in time

A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma

When the armies of Israel arrive weeks later

even bad companies achieve enduring greatness

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Bodleian Libraries: Book Spines Great Girls (Foiled Journal) Interactive and then young readers journeyThis charming trio of book spines are just three examples of the brightly coloured story anthologies from the 1930s in the Bodleian Librarys collection. Featuring cheerful illustrations of sporting, spirited girls ready for adventure, they are tangible evidence of the slow and steady social progress of the era, and the new freedoms and opportunities afforded to many women.