Fifty Famous Stories Retold: [Illustrated]
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073MHHND2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 452 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He is remembered most for the books of introductory historical sketches he wrote for younger students and his retellings of the legends of the heroes for older students. Born in 1841 in a small Quaker settlement in the backwoods of Indiana, James Baldwin rose to become a highly-respected author and textbook editor. L
About the Author Born in 1841 in a small Quaker settlement in the backwoods of Indiana, James Baldwin rose to become a highly-respected author and textbook editor. His influence in the first decades of the twentieth century was broad because of all the grammar school books in use in the United States at that time over half had been written or edited by him. . As an editor of school books, first with Harper and Brothers and later with the American Book Company, he selected the best of our literary heritage and cast it into a form that delighted children of all ages. Largely self-educated, Baldwin became a teacher at 24, then served as superintenden
THERE are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time. As a matter of course, some of these stories are better known, and therefore more famous, than others. Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral t
No illustrations in the hardcover copy I paid $20 for the hardcover and there are no illustrations. This book is available for free in the public domain so I bought this only for the illustrations. However, there aren't any.. Missing Pages I opened this book to start reading with my child this morning and it's missing 13 pages. It's the Yesterday's Classics Version. I'm glad the first story we had scheduled to be read was in the missing section, so I didn't miss my window to return it.. Richard H said I recently purchased two copies so my granddaughters could enjoy.. I read this book as a child from a 1905 publishing that my father had read as a child. These stories were by far my favorites as a child. I recently purchased two copies so my granddaughters could enjoy.