"Hidden Things" is a 1938 staple-bound booklet full of hidden pictures. This is an inexpensive product designed to keep a kid busy. The publisher, Saalfield Publishing Company of Akron, OH was one of the biggest publishers of children's works in the world from 1900 to 1977. There are no credits on this book (aside from a "D + D Downs" on the cover), but they employed Ethel Hayes and Frances Brundage for many of their books.
The drawings are inky, complex and not necessarily very cute in, for instance, a Raggedy Ann sort of way. Saalfield owned the rights to Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann and Andy.
Confession: I was not always successful in finding all of the hidden things and, sadly, there isn't a kinda "teacher's edition" page where we see any sort of solution.
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