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School Reading by Grades: Second Year
(American Book Company, 1897)
Two fables are included in this reader: TH (46) and Androclus (84). There are two small illustrations for the former and two large for the latter. The good copy has the code E.P. 5 on the back of the title-page, while ...
School Reading by Grades: Third Year
(American Book Company, 1897)
There are four fables in this reader. MSA (10) is well told and features a good black-and-white illustration of the donkey swinging crosswise from a pole. TMCM (42) is told in a version very close to Jacobs' and offers ...
Stepping Stones to Literature: A Second Reader.
(Silver Burdett,, 1897)
Aesop's fables are the backbone of this classroom reader: some twenty-eight are presented. The maid (22) carried eggs rather than milk! And She counted her chickens before they were hatched! The book is enhanced ...
The Second Reader
(Scott Foresman and Co.,, 1899)
A good example of late-nineteenth-century unacknowledged use of Aesop in a textbook for early grades. Five fables, none with illustrations.
School Reading by Grades: First Year
(American Book Company, 1897)
Three fables are included in this beginning reader: GA (62), BW (106), and FG (114). Several colored illustrations and many black-and-white throughout, some charming and some (like those of children's faces) grotesque.
The American Pictorial Primer
(Original: NY: George F. Cooledge and Brother. Facsimile: San Marino, CA: Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1845)
Simple and straightforward booklet. Among the few stories is MM (34). There is here no dreaming or counting of chickens before they hatch. This may not even be a fable. Simple illustrations.
The Fourth Reader for the Use of Schools
(John B. Piet, 1880)
Includes four fables: The Dog and the Manger, Hercules and the Carter, GA, and DS. Remarkably clear engravings. A good example of the use of Aesop in earlier American education.
The Baldwin Primer
(American Book Company, 1899)
A nice primer giving an excellent view of what was important beginning learning in the America of the turn of the century. Two fables appear: FS (88) and OF (98), the latter told in a soft version where the mother is ...
Book 1: Fables and Rhymes: Aesop and Mother Goose
(American Book Company, 1898)
It seems that this schoolbook has eluded me until now. Thirty-three fables are mixed in among the fifty-one stories here on 96 pages. They receive illustrations of various sorts. Several are signed B.C. and others L.F.P. ...
The Rational Method in Reading. Third Reader.
(Silver Burdett & Company,, 1899)
Nine fables (13, 14, 21, 23, 30, 36, 37, 53, and 65), some with simple illustrations. The best illustrations are for TH (36) and The Donkey and the Salt (54-5). The stork (65) finishes off the frogs and seeks some other ...