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Sheldon and Co's Modern School Third Reader.
(Sheldon & Company, 1910)
Two fables find their way into this little book: The Lark and Her Young (47) and Trying to Please Everybody (MSA, 73). The latter has a distinctive and lively illustration. This book is in terrible condition: ...
The De La Salle Series: Second Reader
(Brothers of the Christian Schools La Salle institute,St. Joseph's Normal College, 1913)
It is good to get something from the Jesuits' long-time competitors! This standard Catholic second reader contains four fables, two of them with surprise softening twists at the end. In FS (82) a while after the joke had ...
Canadian Series of Readings Books: Second Book of Reading Lessons.
(James Campbell and Son, 1869)
My first book from Canada, I believe. This is a small reader with twelve fables, six of them illustrated (at least one, 126, by Harrison Weir). New to me: The Two Dogs (20) and the long The Bear and the Tomtit ...
Katha Manga for Standard III
(Simasahita Am. Di. Gunasena saha SamagamaSīmāsahita Ăm. Ḍī. Guṇasēna saha Samāgama, 1948)
This is a 48-page pamphlet in good condition. It seems to contain fifteen texts, each with a black-and-white illustration. Many of the texts are famliar fables. Elephant and Pug (1); FWT (7); The Stag Admiring Himself ...
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! ...
Katha Manga for Standard V
(Simasahita Am. Di. Gunasena saha Samagama, 1948)
This is a 98-page pamphlet in good condition. Its cover picture is identical in form with the cover for Katha Manga for Standard III in the same series and from the same year. Now the cover is blue rather than red. There ...
Story Hour Readers: Book Three
(American Book Company, 1914)
This is an extra copy with slightly different numbers on the verso of the title-page. A standard reader in excellent condition. It includes five fables and indifferent two-color illustrations by various artists. By a ...
Stepping Stones to Literature: A Third Reader
(Silver, Burdett, 1897)
Here is an extra copy of this book. This book replicates another in the collection. I believe it is the older of the two. It has a large circular seal imprinted in the back cover, whereas the other copy has a rectangular ...
Reading with Expression: First Reader
(American Book Company, 1911)
Here is a second copy of this book in poor condition. Again I find an American Book Company reader in unusually good condition and with unusually good color printing. There are two fables here: The Wolf and the Kid ...
Tommy Traveler in the World of Black History.
(Black Butterfly Children's Books, 1991)
Here is the first of two extra copies of this book, this one with a dust-jacket. An exasperated store-owner had run through all his fable books and then remembered this book, which he did not have in stock but ordered for ...