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The Winston Companion Readers: Primer.
(John C. Winston, 1922)
Here is a first copy I found of this book that has now become an extra. A longer version of My Animal Story Book (1923). Among the six added stories is BC (91) with one good Richardson illustration. The version of the ...
Fifty Famous Fables
(Johnson Publishing Company, 1910)
See my comments on the 1910 version of this little book that I have from Sherry Carroll. This version has a gray cover that gives no initials for Johnson but does add VA. to Richmond. The title-page, otherwise the same, ...
The Canadian Readers: Book II
(T. Nelson & Sons/W.J. Gage & Co., 1926)
Authorized for Use in the Public Schools of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. This second-grade reader includes a surprising number of fables, perhaps more surprising because only one of them -- the ...
Drittes Lesebuch für Evangelisch-Lutherische Schulen.
(Concordia Publishing House, 1910)
A remarkable little book. Lots of fables in its first part and a reading (86) on the meaning of fables. No illustrations for these. A nice verse rendition of MM (31). Further sections explore nature, history, geography, ...
Make and Make-Believe
(MacMillan, 1930)
Here is the second of two extra copies of this reader. A school reader in very good condition. Two fables: MM (39) has an excellent illustration. The Hunter and the Rabbit (41) is identified as by Aesop, but I think ...
Make and Make-Believe
(MacMillan, 1930)
Here is the first of two extra copies of this reader. A school reader in very good condition. Two fables: MM (39) has an excellent illustration. The Hunter and the Rabbit (41) is identified as by Aesop, but I think ...
The Third Reader: The New Century Catholic Series.
(Benziger Brothers printers to the Holy Apostolic See,, 1903)
This reader has all sorts of uplifting little stories, but includes among them MSA (194). There is one striking black-and-white illustration. This version differs from the usual in that the donkey breaks his cords and ...
More Friends Old and New
(Scott, Foresman, and Co., 1965)
I have a book of the same title from the same publisher, but it is the Cathedral Edition and is one year earlier. What a difference those two factors make! I had written of that book A great bit of Catholic memorabilia! ...
Von Frühling zu Frühling: Lesebuch für die Volksschulen in Baden-Württemberg: Zweites Schuljahr
(Kultusministerium des Landes Baden-Württemberg, 1958)
Here is a lovely second-grade reader from Germany in the 1950's. It contains a wealth of stories with lovely simple multi-colored illustrations. I find several fables among the stories. "Der Fuchs und der Hase" by Ludwig ...
Haus in der Heimat: Lesebuch für die Volksschulen in Baden-Württemberg: Drittes Schuljahr
(Kultusministerium des Landes Baden-Württemberg, 1958)
Here is a typical third-grade reader from Germany in the 1950's. It contains a wealth of stories with colored and monochrome illustrations. I find three fables grouped together. LM, TB, and FC. TB is told in the version ...