KITTENS & CATS: a First Reader. (First Edn.)

by Grover, Eulalie Osgood

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1911. Hardcover; spine ends worn; cover tips lightly worn; pg. 2 has 1/4-inch edge tear; pg. 14 dog-earred, neither affecting text; otherwise good.. With b&w frontispiece + 38 full-pg. & in-text photos of cats & kittens dressed in costumes. `Published September 1911.' ||| Cover title is set within frame of marsh plant `cat-tails' with a bullfrog or butterfly at each corner. Dedicated `To Fritz who loves kittens & cats as much as you & I do' (Fritz unidentified). Includes 600-word vocabulary, suitable for First Grade. ||| Comprises--52 titles of verse & simple sentence stories + 3-1/3pp. `Word to the Teacher.' ||| Grover (1873-1958) was born in Mantorville, Minn.; lived in Winter Park, Florida from 1926; wrote 27 children's books (total of 4 million copies); is best known for her `Sunbonnet Babies' series & `The Overall Boys.' ||| This book is in Miriam S. Mathes Historical Children's Literature Collection.