Parabolic Orbits

 

So, I'm a bit on the late side posting this, but it's a pretty big deal and I'm posting about it now. I've had a short story published in an anthology for the first time! And it's a science fiction story. Parabolic Orbits is a collection of stories based on the parables Jesus told, rewritten as science fiction. My friend Sarah L. Frantz has a story in A Time for Everything, a previous anthology by Ben Avery, and when she mentioned that this new collection was in the works she suggested that I pitch a story idea for it, too. It looked like a lot of fun, so I did. I was so excited to be accepted! And since Sarah and I each have a story in the same book, I had to post a picture of us both with a copy of it.

My story is called "The Stars from Home" and is based on the parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge. Sarah's story, "The Nebra Sky Disc," is based on the parable of the lost coin. And there are twelve more people's stories in there, too. I had a lot of fun reading them all and definitely recommend the book to anyone who might like Christian speculative fiction or science fiction in general. You can find it on Amazon here, in both ebook and paperback formats. 

Parabolic Orbits actually came out in November, so why didn't I blog about it until February? Well, I'll add a picture of my main reason for the delay, which I consider a very good one. I had a baby in January, which of course was a huge distraction. I've been pretty busy with that, first getting ready for and then taking care of him. He's not super impressed by books yet, but I'm sure he'll be a lot more interested once he is old enough to hold his head up and stay awake a bit longer. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas, everyone, and I hope you have a happy New Year! Here's the now-traditional photo of my "funky tree angels." Those were the search terms I used to find Charity on eBay, a few years ago now, and it kind of stuck as a goofy nickname. Faith was my grandmother's original angel, the one that inspired my book The Angel's Name. Obviously she acquired a name at some point, possibly when, as a child, I demanded that Grandma name her angel before I would come to dinner. Anyway, since I'm the only one who can tell the various angels apart (I have one more that's not pictured here, and my sister also has I think two of them now), this year I decided to label them by making gold sashes with their names on them.

Temple of Fancy Paper Dolls--Frank Feignwell's Attempts to Amuse His Friends on Twelfth-Night

 

This is another old paper doll from the Temple of Fancy. This one didn't have a convenient digital base to work from (I guess the Bryn Mawr College doesn't own a copy), so it took me longer to figure out what all the pieces would have been and make sure they were the correct sizes. Anyway, Frank Feignwell's Attempts to Amuse His Friends on Twelfth-Night was printed in 1811. His story has much less of a plot than the others I've blogged about previously--it's mostly just a framing device for the sections introducing his costumes. You can read Frank's story at the Hockliffe Project website here, if you would like. The copy scanned for that page has one added outfit, which is obviously hand-copied from one of Little Henry's outfits. Anyway, Frank's story is that he is hosting a holiday party for Twelfth Night, which isn't so much of a thing nowadays but would have marked the end of the twelve days of Christmas. At this party, Frank decides to, well, amuse his friends by dressing up as various characters. Each character Frank dresses up as has a little section of poetry about it. Overall it's pretty cute, but it's marred by the awkward accent and mocking stereotype used for the "Jew Pedlar" character. The original audience would assumably have found that bit funny, but to a modern reader it's offensive. 

Most of Frank's costumes are lots of fun. He does also have a normal outfit, which shows him standing next to a Twelfth Night cake. His friends, of course, are not included, but I've made copies of quite a few other dolls from the same publisher by now, and those make perfectly natural party guests for him. (See previous blog posts about Little Fanny and Little Henry, Ellen, Frederick, and Cinderella, to make your own copies of them.)

It took me a while to figure out that Frank apparently came with not one but two wigs; the lawyer's wig and the barber's wig are actually a bit different from each other, with two traditional little ponytails on the lawyer's wig. It's not uncommon to see pictures of him wearing the lawyer outfit with the barber's wig, but this is not correct. The best picture I could find of the lawyer wig was a little pixelated, though not nearly as badly as the only one I could find of the peddler's hat. As we've seen from poor Frederick with his missing head and hats, Frank is lucky to have all his hats in any condition. 

And I'm quite sure that my reproduction Frank does indeed have all his hats. In his starting outfit he is holding his hat in his hand, so that would not have come with a separate one. And the only other outfit that does not have a matching hat is clearly based on an 1800 painting of John Philip Kemble as Rolla, which you can find on Wikipedia here but I will include in this post so you can see at a glance just how obviously it was copied. And the Rolla in that painting is not wearing any kind of hat. 

So, not only is Frank dressed as the character Rolla, he is clearly dressed as a specific actor playing Rolla. I thought that was amusing. In his Scotchman outfit, on the other hand, he is called William Wallace but is specified to be only a generic Scotchman named after the historical character. It's slightly jarring to see that combined with a statement that "Scotland now is free" as part of Great Britain; I'm not an expert on the politics from either era, but it somehow seems unlikely that the real William Wallace would appreciate having his name used to celebrate that particular union. 

The closest Frank has to the seemingly ubiquitous poverty outfit is the offensive "Jew Pedlar" costume, which I suppose is a bit of a stretch when you compare it to the beggar and peasant outfits his friends have. I took a group photo of them all dressed in their most ragged clothing anyway. Frank's hat or turban is badly pixelated, but I could only find one picture of that one and I thought it better to include what I had than to leave it out.

Frank is the character I borrowed the crown from for Cinderella's prince, so I had to take a photo of the two of them together. Frank's scepter was damaged in every photo I could find, but from what little I could see on the black and white scans from the Hockliffe Project page, I believe that it was a chunkier version of one I found in a portrait of Charlemagne. I didn't want to make the replacement scepter top stand out too much, so I have left it thinner and more delicate than it really ought to be. That's the only creative liberty I took with this set, except that the Harlequin mask originally had actual holes in it--I completely failed to cut out the holes neatly with either knife or scissors, so I just added a copy of Frank's eyes behind them so that they don't need to be cut out at all.

Download the printable PDF version of Frank Feignwell here (page 1) and here (page 2).

Pollyanna Reprints

 

My best selling project at the moment is these reprints of the first several Pollyanna books. Each of mine is two of the original books in one volume. I published a paperback version of Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up all the way back in 2016, when only the first two of the original Pollyanna books had entered the public domain--all the others were trapped on the opposite side of the copyright freeze. I was a little reluctant to reprint the next books anyway, since I knew they were written by a different author. I shouldn't have worried! Harriet Lummis Smith's books are every bit as charming as Eleanor H. Porter's. They were a bit harder to find than Eleanor H. Porter's books, though, so to get the original illustrations to add to my reprints I had to track down and buy early editions of the books. All but the earliest editions were printed with no illustrations.

Here's a picture of the original copies I bought of all four Harriet Lummis Smith Pollyanna books. It took some hunting to find ones that were both in good condition and in the price range I was willing to pay for them, as they are close to a hundred years old.

The second of these three reprints, Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms and Pollyanna's Jewels, is currently the most popular. There are many more competing options available for Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up; that's why mine tends to disappear into the "see all formats and editions" link on the Amazon listing. The third one, Pollyanna's Debt of Honor and Pollyanna's Western Adventure, was new this January because Pollyanna's Western Adventure, being published in 1929, only entered the public domain this year. I believe I am currently the only one who has reprinted it since it did become public domain, though there are of course still secondhand copies available from when it was newer. But I think people are buying the previous book before that one, which makes sense if they haven't already read it. 

In Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms, Pollyanna is a bride and a newlywed, and in Pollyanna's Jewels, she is a young mother. That obviously makes these a little more mature in theme than the original two books, but not in a weird way. Pollyanna is still her sweet, sunny self--and still getting into trouble in entertaining ways. There's also plenty of drama with higher stakes, though usually it's not Pollyanna herself who is in any real danger. I enjoyed these books quite a lot, probably even more than the first two. 

The plot of Pollyanna's Debt of Honor centers on some friends and neighbors of Pollyanna's family, as Pollyanna herself is pretty much settled down by now. Pollyanna gets to do some matchmaking and other well-meaning interfering. But in Pollyanna's Western Adventure, the whole family is uprooted and sent on, well, a Western adventure. No one seems to remember that Pollyanna spent the first eleven years of her life in "a little Western town," which should have prevented too much culture shock when she goes back West as an adult. I suppose by this point she had lived longer back East, but eleven is old enough to get used to a place and remember it. So it's kind of weird when she makes a rookie mistake like leaving the door open when she just has to go outside and get a drink of water straight from the pump in the middle of the night.

Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up was my second attempt at designing a book cover, and it was my first attempt at formatting a book over five hundred pages long, so it was a valuable practice project. I gave it a font change and new hardback version in late 2023, when I was getting ready to publish the next book in early 2024, but since I had saved all my files from 2016 I could make the books match without having to do a complete redesign. One could argue that I went a bit overboard on the flowers and rainbows, but if you can't go overboard with flowers and rainbows for Pollyanna, when can you?

Stereo Card Recolor--Pilgrim's Progress 1, Evangelist Talks with Christian (1877)

 

Here's a stereograph recolor I've been working on for quite a long time. When I first discovered, back in I think 2022, that F.G. Weller had printed a set of Pilgrim's Progress stereoviews in 1877, I couldn't find as much information about them as I wanted. I couldn't even find a complete list, since the backs of the cards advertised Weller's Allegorical Series as a whole and only mentioned that the Pilgrim's Progress set had twelve cards. So I compiled my own list of their names by combing eBay listings and museum websites and wherever else I could find snippets of information about them. Surprisingly for something that was published in 1877, the cards themselves were not actually that difficult to find, and I was able to acquire several of them on eBay for a reasonable cost. The prices vary wildly, though, so I've only got about half the set in my collection of physical stereo cards. But I've at least found digital copies of them all by now! Maddeningly, the Library of Congress had eleven out of the twelve cards but at the time had not yet digitized them. In the end I was able to get a good scan of the first card in the series from the friendly people at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, though they have updated their web page since and I can't link directly to the page that showed me they had a copy of "Evangelist talks with Christian."

Image from the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

Here's a nice image of what the original card looks like, credited to the Davis Museum. The Library of Congress did eventually digitize their copy as well, but since it's more faded than this one and I was already in the middle of coloring it, my version is based on this scan and not the Library of Congress one. 

Here's the full list of the twelve cards:

No. 667 Evangelist talks with Christian.

No. 668 Christian starting on his Journey.

No. 669 Christian at the Wicket Gate.

No. 670 The Fire secretly sustained.

No. 671 Christian losing his burden at the Cross.

No. 672 Christian passes the Lions.

No. 673 The arming of Christian.

No. 674 Christian's combat with Apollyon.

No. 675 Vanity Fair.

No. 676 The Pillar of Salt.

No. 677 Land of Beulah

No. 678 Christian and Hopeful cross the River

These are pretty fun cards if you're familiar with the book The Pilgrim's Progress. The 3D effect on them looks very much like a pop-up book, which makes me wonder if their creation involved paper figures set up in dioramas. Of course, each view matches up to a scene in the book. 

Here's the relevant scene for this one:

Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?" 

I saw also that he looked this way and that way, as if he would run; yet he stood still, because, as I perceived, he could not tell which way to go. I looked then, and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him and asked, Wherefore dost thou cry? 

He answered, Sir, I perceive by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgement; and I find that I am not willing to do the first, nor able to do the second.

Then said Evangelist, Why not willing to die, since this life is attended with so many evils? The man answered, Because I fear that this burden is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fall into Tophet. And, Sir, if I be not fit to go to prison, I am not fit, I am sure, to go to judgement, and from thence to execution; and the thoughts of these things make me cry.

Then said Evangelist, If this be thy condition, why standest thou still? He answered, Because I know not whither to go. Then he gave him a parchment roll, and there was written within, Flee from the wrath to come. 

The man therefore read it, and looking upon Evangelist very carefully, said, Whither must I fly? Then said Evangelist, pointing with his finger over a very wide field, Do you see yonder wicket-gate? The man said, No. Then said the other, Do you see yonder shining light? He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto: so shalt thou see the gate; at which, when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.

I think the background looks like the Slough of Despond, which is the next scene in which Christian meets Evangelist. That's why I chose a sort of murky green color for the flat part that could possibly be a wetland. The figure climbing up toward the shining light is Faithful, a neighbor of Christian's who began the journey a little earlier. I've purposely colored the light on only one half of the image, for effect. Anyway, since the Pilgrim's Progress book was (and still is) so massively popular, I'm sure the stereoviews were also popular. 

Jeremiah's Robot ABC

 

My newest book is a thing I promised to one of my kids. When I published A Apple Pie: An Active Alphabet, back in January 2023, I showed it to my then-four-year-old and asked what he thought of it. "I hate it," he told me. "There aren't enough robots." Preschoolers are a tough crowd. Anyway, I told him that I didn't know how to draw robots, but if he would draw them for me, I would make him another book. So he did, so I did, and now Jeremiah's Robot ABC is a real book, with twenty-six robots drawn by my son when he was five years old. Since my last alphabet book was a rhyming one, I wanted to do something different with this one, and since my son is at an age when he likes to count things, I decided to make this one a counting alphabet book. That means the illustrations got progressively more complex as we went along, until I was trying to stuff over twenty counting objects onto each page. It was a wild ride. 

Oh, and we also threw in a bit of art appreciation. All the illustration backgrounds are from paintings by Vincent van Gogh. Here's one of my favorite pages--how can you resist counting sheep in Van Gogh's Starry Night?

My son insisted on holding a shiny gold plastic egg in his other hand when I took his picture with the book. That's what I get for sneaking in a photo session on Easter Sunday, I guess. Anyway, he's also happy with our new book.

The Angel's Name--Spanish Translation Available

 

The Spanish translation of The Angel's Name is now available on Amazon! El nombre de la angelita was translated by Amy Hernandez and has illustrations only slightly altered from the original ones. Here's a picture of the new book with the angel that inspired the story--she's not made of glass, but she did belong to my grandma when I was a kid, and I remember once asking my grandma why her angel didn't have a name. She was eventually christened Faith, perhaps because I wouldn't sit down to dinner until the angel had a name. There was also a glass music box that used to sit on my grandma's electric organ, with the angel next to it at Christmas time. One day the music box fell off and broke, and I guess that became part of the story, too.

You can see from this picture that the Spanish and English versions are meant to match each other. I added a banner across the bottom with the translator's name, but otherwise it's pretty much the same cover. 

Realistic Heart Valentine 2025

 

Happy Valentine's Day! Here's another silly valentine with a more realistic heart on it. (Two I've made in the past can be found here and here.) This one is just a heart I found and a frame that I colored to match it, but it might come in handy if you want something bold and a bit unusual. Below is a sheet with eight small copies of it that can be printed out and cut apart.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

I'm a bit late this year, but I still wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! And I'm posting my apparently now-traditional group photo of Christmas tree angels, because I think that's fun (here's a link to last year's). I spent Christmas with my sister, and between us we found four matching tree angels this year (or mostly matching, since one of my sister's is blue). The one in the back middle is my grandmother's original angel--the one I thought ought to have a name when I was a kid, which eventually inspired my first picture book, The Angel's Name. I actually misplaced one of my angels and didn't find her in time to pack her for the trip, but my sister recently bought a new one, so the choir is growing anyway.

I had a particularly wonderful Christmas this year, as we were able to spend it with my parents and sister and also my husband's parents. Also, I unexpectedly got a new job right after Christmas and New Year's, so I've been preparing for and starting that instead of blogging. I'll have less time for writing for a few months, but I'm close enough to the end of a couple of projects that I'll be posting about them soon enough anyway. I'm looking forward to an exciting 2025!

The Angel's Name--Spanish Translation Proof Copy

 

Today I got my proof copy of the upcoming Spanish translation of The Angel's Name, El nombre de la angelita. I've had the recolored illustrations ready for years, but it's only just been translated. My friend Amy Hernandez did a great job--it was a new type of project for both of us, but I'm pleased with the results so far. It still needs to be proofread again for typos and accent marks, but it's very close to finished. I'm excited! The Spanish I learned in high school and college is quite rusty by now, but a picture book like this is about at my reading level. I'm having fun with it already and can't wait to be able to share it!

Light of Hope Holiday Craft Market 2024

 

Last weekend I was in Claremore again for another craft fair. This time I shared a table with Kristi Woods, who had bookmarks and handmade cards as well as books. Kristi really knows how to set a table up nicely! The Light of Hope Holiday Craft Market was smaller than the last craft fair I went to, but I had fun and I did sell a few books. Our table was in the front, a little apart, and we had some great conversations with people who stopped by. Kristi's new book 101 Prayers for Military Wives has an interesting QR code bumper sticker that she's trying to get on cars in all fifty states, and I know it's now being sent to two states that weren't already on her list.

We had a third person helping out at our booth the whole time, which was extra fun! My son was an enthusiastic salesman and said he really enjoyed being there. Here's a selfie of the three of us getting ready for business. I was happy to have my "apprentice" along for the ride. A couple of other friends also came to see us, but I didn't get any more pictures after the beginning of the event. 

Westside Craft Bazaar 2024

 

This Saturday I had a great time at the Westside Craft Bazaar in Claremore! My friend Renee' La Viness and I shared a table and each sold several books, even though we ended up placed in sort of a back corner. There were booths throughout the whole elementary school building, and I'm not sure everyone knew they needed to wander around to see everything. Eventually word spread, though, and since it rained quite a bit we were much better off in a back hallway than we would have been outdoors. I think it went pretty well, overall, and also that my children's books and Renee's holiday coloring book made us ideal table mates. Some of the other booths were also really fun to look at--I think my favorite was the one with a laser engraver to customize wooden objects on the spot, but there were also fancy soaps and birdhouses and coin banks and Christmas ornaments and recycled book art and tons of adorable crocheted animals. One booth near us was all gourd art, which was pretty cool and not something you see every day. And now that I know how much I like them, maybe I'll go to more craft fairs in the future! 

Temple of Fancy Paper Dolls--Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper

 

Here's another old Temple of Fancy paper doll. Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper was published in 1814. You can read this version of Cinderella's story on the Internet Archive here, assuming the Internet Archive isn't down again due to hackers. It's a familiar story to most of us. For some reason this is the only one of these dolls whose story is based on a classic fairy tale. This doll was also shared online by the Bryn Mawr College, but I have added a few things. 

Cinderella wouldn't be Cinderella without her magic coach, would she? This is a large piece that originally folded in half to fit into the envelope with everything else. I had to fold my copy in half, too, or it would not fit in the pencil case I wanted to store it in. But the fold also makes it stand up on its own, so that's cool.

The Bryn Mawr College copy of the doll had two outfits without hats. I found a black and white picture of one of them elsewhere with a flat hat that did seem to fit the casual look of Cinderella running away from the ball, so I copied its shape and used colors and textures from her dress to make it match. So the hat on the right in the photo above is supposed to belong to her but could be missing details or have the wrong colors. The hat on the left was spotted with a copy of the Ellen doll, but it is not one of Ellen's hats. It fits Cinderella and goes with her last hatless outfit, so I think it's quite likely to be hers. It's styled like some Mother Goose bonnets, which I think fits with the idea that Cinderella would be working for her stepsisters--you can see them in the background--while wearing unfashionable old clothes. It's kind of pixilated, but I've tried to smooth it out a little. If you want to be completely sure you only use correct pieces, you can discard those two hats, but they are a much safer bet than Frederick's replacement hats.

Now, here's where I've gotten, ahem, creative with this set. Cinderella's final outfit is a wedding dress, and it comes complete with both the prince and the priest standing next to her. But I thought that was shockingly unfair, that the other characters were only part of her clothing! So I extracted them and tried to make them into proper dolls of their own. The prince's other outfits are recolors of his original one, so his pose unfortunately doesn't change. I did make him a bit bigger, just because his head was originally so small, so as a side effect he's taller than Cinderella now. Two of his feathery hats were blown up larger from the backgrounds of Cinderella's other outfits, and a third is a recolor of one of those. The crown was borrowed from a doll called Frank Feignwell and recolored, as I thought the prince really ought to have a crown. His page also includes Cinderella's wedding dress separated from the other characters.

The priest doesn't have any hats, but I recolored his robes in a few basic liturgical colors. I'm not an expert on those, but I figured green, red, and purple would offer reasonable choices for anyone who might want him for a paper doll church service. Anyway, since I was making the prince into a proper doll I decided that I might as well do it for the priest, too. If you want only the original pieces for Cinderella, print pages 1 and 2 and ignore pages 3 and 4. 

If you do use my extra dolls, the prince can interact with Cinderella while she is wearing her other outfits. It's fun to have options.

Here's my current collection of these paper dolls, all dressed up for Cinderella's wedding. Find my previous posts about Little Fanny and Little Henry here, Ellen here, and Frederick here.

Download the Cinderella paper doll in PDF format here (page 1) and here (page 2), and get the prince here (page 3) and the priest here (page 4).

Mayetta Pioneer Days 2024

 

I had a rather eventful trip to Kansas last weekend, for the Oct. 5th Mayetta Pioneer Days celebration. My family was supposed to meet up and share a booth space, but my parents didn't make it there due to surprise health issues (all appears to be well now, but not in time to make it to the party). The rest of us managed to have fun anyway. Here's a picture of me that morning at my newly-set-up book table, wearing my sunbonnet because it was Pioneer Days. The sun came out later on, but so did the wind. I tried taping my book stands in place, but in the end I had to take about half of them down and just lay the books flat so they wouldn't keep blowing over. I did sell several books, so that was nice, and I gave away a lot of advertising bookmarks.

Here's a picture of my kids watching the rope spinning demonstration. None of my still shots from that turned out--maybe because I didn't realize my flash was on, which slowed down the shutter speed--so I took a screenshot from the video I recorded. The rope spinning demonstration is always my favorite activity at Pioneer Days.

The battery for my phone didn't last through the day very well, so I couldn't use it to take photos of the parade at the end. My aunt let me borrow her phone to get a few shots, though, and I like this one of my kid waving at a float. It was a busy day that didn't exactly go as planned, but I was definitely glad I went. 

Temple of Fancy Paper Dolls--Frederick, or The Effects of Disobedience

 

Here's another one of those early 1800s paper dolls from S & J Fuller at the Temple of Fancy. Frederick, or The Effects of Disobedience was published in 1816. In this story, Frederick is a fourteen-year-old boy who runs away from home because he is too lazy to study Greek and Latin. Of course the first thing he does is dress as a sailor and get on a ship, which doesn't work out nearly as well as he expects it to. You can read Frederick's story on the Internet Archive here. He manages to get captured by pirates not once, but twice (well, once by "a Barbary corsair" and once by "an American privateer," but... those are both pirates) and have a few other awkward adventures. Some of these involve dressing in women's clothing as a disguise, so the two incongruous-seeming outfits with dresses really do belong to this set. Eventually Frederick meets up with some English soldiers, fights in one battle, and is sent home heroically wounded to apologize to his parents--and to his Greek and Latin teacher. You know, good 1800s morality tale drama.

The Bryn Mawr College was kind enough to share a printable version of Frederick online, but their copy is missing his head and all his hats. Their solution to that problem was to throw Little Henry's head on the scanner with Frederick's clothes, which technically would make it possible to play with the set. I had already constructed a Little Henry set, though, and I didn't want a Frederick with the wrong head. So I set out on a quest to find out what he was actually meant to look like. Eventually I found scans of an old book from 1899 called Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children's Books, and on page 255 was a black and white picture of Frederick's head! If poor Frederick was "forgotten" by 1899, no wonder I had trouble finding him in 2024. By this time I was resigned to having to colorize the black and white image, but a while later I found pictures of a different doll in the series with an incorrect head--and since I had seen the picture of Frederick in black and white, I knew who he actually was when I saw him in color. So I am quite sure that my version of Frederick now has the correct head. The hats I decided to give him, however, are wild guesses. 

Frederick and Little Henry have matching sailor outfits, though in completely different poses. The hat I've put on Frederick was supposedly Little Henry's, though it can't actually be Henry's because all Henry's hats are otherwise accounted for. That doesn't mean it was originally Frederick's, of course--the copy of Little Henry that it was seen with appeared to have swapped heads with a doll named Hubert, so I suppose the hat could also have belonged to him. It does look similar to the hats on the background characters behind Henry's sailor suit, though I'm not completely sold on the feather. 

Frederick's "peasant" clothing isn't really a beggar outfit, but the stick and bundle makes him fit in pretty well with Fanny, Henry, and Ellen in their beggar clothes. He could have had a hat to go with it, but I have not managed to find one that I think fits. Maybe he could wear the possible sailor's hat with it.

The turban and also the dashing plumed hat in the first picture above were spotted with a different doll from this series called Young Albert. Young Albert's head is facing the opposite direction from Frederick's, and while it's hard to tell the front of a turban from the back, the plumed hat absolutely cannot have originally been Albert's. Once again, that doesn't mean it was Frederick's, but it fits his pose and looks pretty good with one of his outfits, so he might as well wear it. And of course he can't reasonably pass for a French girl without something to cover his hair, so I made him a lace bonnet by combining the basic shape of an unknown hat in a blurry picture of the Ellen paper doll (wrong pose for Ellen, and anyhow all her hats are otherwise accounted for) with the texture of a lace bonnet in an old painting. So that explains the hats I've given him; if you want your own printed Frederick to have only verifiably correct pieces, just discard those, but if you want fun hats to dress him with, I've done my best. 

Here's a school scene I set up with my modern copies of the Temple of Fancy paper dolls, just for fun. Little Fanny is reading aloud as Ellen and Frederick sit at their desks and listen. Since Little Henry is the only one who doesn't have either a book or a desk, I made him borrow Ellen's dunce cap so he would fit into the scene somehow. 

Download PDF files of the Frederick paper doll (two pages) here and here. The previous post about the Ellen doll is here, and the one about Little Fanny and Little Henry is here. Cinderella will be coming soon.