The Humpherys Family

My Book House Set

Record Added: 11/29/2009
A Favorite Book
Illustrator Multiple Authors
Series My Book House
Setting United States
Topic Collection of Stories
Publisher Book House for Children
Year 1954
Age 9-12
Description Green and Blue binding; fr
 
The Book House for Children publishing company was founded in 1919 printing popular children’s literature edited by Olive Beaupre Miller to meet her standards:

"First,--To be well equipped for life, to have ideas and the ability to express them, the child needs a broad background of familiarity with the best in literature.
"Second,--His stories and rhymes must be selected with care that he may absorb no distorted view of life and its actual values, but may grow up to be mentally clear about values and emotionally impelled to seek what is truly desirable and worthwhile in human living.
"Third,--The stories and rhymes selected must be graded to the child's understanding at different periods of his growth, graded as to vocabulary, as to subject matter and as to complexity of structure and plot."

Set of 12 Titles include:

  • Volume 1: In the Nursery 
  • Volume 2: Story Time 
  • Volume 3: Up One Pair of Stairs 
  • Volume 4: Through the Gate 
  • Volume 5: Over The Hills 
  • Volume 6: Through Fairy Halls 
  • Volume 7: The Magic Garden 
  • Volume 8: Flying Sails 
  • Volume 9: The Treasure Chest 
  • Volume 10: In Shining Armor 
  • Volume 11: From the Tower Window 
  • Volume 12: Halls of Fame

Notes
Partial set of 8 were purchased at DI for $2 each.
Volume 1 ($9.99) purchased 8/2/09 from Amazon
Volume 2 Story Time ($6.59) purchased from Amazon July 2009.
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