DEDICATION
CONTENTS
PEOPLE WHO POSED FOR THE PICTURES
Chapter I THE BRUSSELS SPROUT
Chapter II PAPA POMME'S SURPRISE
Chapter III A NEIGHBOR
Chapter IV ZELIE
Chapter V NEW FRIENDS
Chapter VI PHILIPPE ACTS AS GUIDE
Chapter VII PHILIPPE RUNS AWAY
Chapter VIII A DIFFICULT JOURNEY
Chapter IX THE CITY OF SISTERS
Chapter X IN THE SHADOWS OF BRUGES
Chapter XI FOUND
Chapter XII PHILIPPE FINDS OUT
Chapter XIII THE CAVE OF THE CROWS
Chapter XIV TROMPKE TALKS
Chapter XV A NEW SONG
PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY
Transcriber's Notes:
Little Philippe of Belgium
LITTLE PHILIPPE OF BELGIUM LITTLE PHILIPPE OF BELGIUM
LITTLE PHILIPPE
of BELGIUM
BY
MADELINE BRANDEIS
Author of
"Little Indian Weaver"
"The Wee Scotch Piper"
"The Little Dutch Tulip Girl"
"The Little Swiss Wood-Carver"
Photographic Illustrations Made in Belgium by the Author
GROSSET & DUNLAP
publishersnew york
By Arrangement with the A. Flanagan Company
copyright, 1930, by a. flanagan company
printed in the united states of america
When I began to write these stories about children of all lands I had just returned from Europe whither I journeyed with Marie and Ref. Maybe you don't know Marie and Ref. I'll introduce them: Please meet Marie, my very little daughter, and Ref, my very big reflex camera.
These two are my helpers. Marie helps by being a little girl who knows what other little girls like and by telling me; and Ref helps by snapping pictures of everything interesting that Marie and I see on our travels. I couldn't get along without them.
Several years have gone by since we started our work together and Marie is a bigger girl—but Ref hasn't changed one bit. Ref hasn't changed any more than my interest in writing these books for you. And I hope that you hope that I'll never change, because I want to keep on writing until we'll have no more countries to write about—unless, of course, some one discovers a new country.
Even if a new country isn't discovered, we'll find foreign children to talk about—maybe the children in Mars! Who knows? Nobody. Not even Marie—and Marie usually knows about most things. That's the reason why, you see, though I sign myself
Signature Madeleine Brandeis
I am really only
Marie's Mother.
