A Little Girl of Nineteen Hundred [1900]

218 pp. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. As Lenski progressed in her literary and artistic career, her family and home life served as important sources of inspiration for her work. Two of the first books she wrote and illustrated, Skipping Village (1927) and A Little Girl of 1900 (1928), drew upon her childhood in small-town Ohio, which she idealized; in her autobiography she would describe that time and place as "simple, sincere, and wholesome."