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Halls of Fame

By Olive Beaupré Miller

Book information

Publisher
The United Educators
Year
1971
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28618602 bytes)
Series
My Book House, Vol. 12
Pages
294\308
Time added
2020-06-22 15:01:01

Description

This is: MY BOOK HOUSE: Volume Number TWELVE - including the INDEX, HALLS OF FAME. Edited by Olive Beaupre Miller. Published by The Book House for Children, Chicago, copyright 1950. This book measures approx 7 1/4" by 9 3/8". It has a sewn binding and 300 pages. The boards are covered in blue cloth. There is a paste-down paper illustration on the front. The titles appear on the front and on the spine. The end pages are illustrated with images of knights in armor astride horses looking to sea where a Viking Ship is sailing. The tales and fables in this book are accompanied by wonderful art work--much of it is signed by named artists, such as: William Thackeray; Glen Ketchum; Maud-Miska Petersham; Donn P Crane; .... and more. Some illustrations are multi-color others are B&W. This book contains, along with the standards of our culture, some wonderful tales that are not so commonly known, including some from other countries/cultures. The Royal Page • Geoffrey Chaucer (English, 1340-1400) Down by the River Avon • William Shakespeare (English, 1564-1616) The First Moon Landing: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins • Margaret Waldorf Señor Kon-Tiki: The Story of Thor Heyerdahl • Arnold Jacoby Telegraph Boy: A Story of Andrew Carnegie • Clara Ingram Judson Jane and the Wild Chimps: The Story of Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall • George Crossette The Loneliest Battler: The Story of Jackie Robinson • George Vass A Rover in the Catskills • Washington Irving (American, 1783-1859) London Secrets • Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870) The Man Who Made Adolf Hitler Run: The Story of Jesse Owens • George Vass Life in Concord • Louisa May Alcott (American, 1833-1888) The Harvard Professor • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, 1807-1882) 'Way Down South in Dixie • Joel Chandler Harris (American, 1848-1908) The Hoosier Poet • James Whitcomb Riley (American, 1853-1916) The Poet of the Sierras • Joaquin (Cincinnatus Heine) Miller (American, 1841-1913) A Tramp of the Middle West • Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (American, 1879-1931) Pioneer in Surgery: The Story of Daniel Hale Williams • Louis Haber The Lone Star Team of Texas: The Story of Babe Didrikson • George Vass The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Langston Hughes A Boy in Russia • Leo N. Tolstoy (Russian, 1828-1910) Learning to be Free: The Story of Frederick Douglass • Mildred Barger Herschler The Coin • Sara Teasdale The Interesting History of Old Mother Goose The Gentle Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein • Tamsin Murphy Index to My Book House

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