FIRST ADVENTURES IN READING: INTRODUCING CHILDREN TO BOOKS

by Becker, May Lamberton

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Book description: Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1936, Ist edition.. 286 pp, small 8vo, hard cover - no dust jacket. Contents: Introduction - As One Parent to Another; Singing to the Baby (With and without music); The First Joy (The delight of recognition); Two Laps and Little Bits (Points on picture-books); The Fa. iry-Tale Age (And where it may lead); Animals in Books (From plush to the jungle); Other Children in Books (And how they help in reading); How to Behave (Beginning books on manners and morals); Concering Certain English Classics; The Age of Fact. ( I n formation - why and how); The Family in Fiction (School, sport and vocational stories); Looking Into the Past (Historical fiction and history); Censorship (Home control of books and movies); Lives of Great Men All Remind Us (Notes on beginnin. g b io gr aphy); Christmas and the Bible Story; Adventures and Romance (Beginning to grow up); The Mystery Story (What makes a good one). Light browning to pages and endpapers, bequest bookplate on free front endpaper, small number stamp on free r. ea r e ndp ape r, light crease and tiny closed tear on fore-edge of page1/2, slight fading to spine color, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edge wear to boards. VG.

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