My Book House by Olive Miller Complete Set 12 Volume + 2 Parenting Book

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My Book House by Olive Miller Complete Set 12 Volume + 2 Parenting BookLAMINATED BOOK COVER TAPED TO EVERY VOLUME - OTHERWISE LIKE NEW - NOT NOTICEABLE AT ALLVolume 1, In the Nursery , is heavily illustrated with art on every page and begins with Mother Goose and English nursery rhymes. It moves on to poems and rhymes from around the world, and ends with what are referred to as "experience stories," which are basically simple tales of everyday life.Volume 2, Story Time , is also heavily illustrated but slightly less so than Volume 1; this volume tends to have only one or two pieces of art per page. It begins with short, repetitive and rhythmic stories and moves onto slightly longer, and highly recognizable stories such as Beatrix Potter 's "A Tale of Peter Rabbit," Hans Christian Andersen 's "The Ugly Duckling" and Fables by Aesop .Volume 3, Up One Pair of Stairs , introduces readers to simple fairy tales, more complex poetry and ends with an excerpt from Charles Kingsley 's "Water Babies." This volume is also heavily illustrated and we begin to see art by some of the most influential illustrators for children: Kate Greenaway , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane .Volume 4, Through the Gate , contains more fairy tales, including "Cinderella" and "Snow White and Rose Red," and popular American folktales, such as "Pecos Bill" and " Old Johnny Appleseed." This volume is still heavily illustrated but the art becomes sparser, befitting of material for this age group, with occasional spreads featuring only text.Volume 5, Over The Hills , continues with folktales but also includes stories of important inventions (for example, the use of steam in trains and boats) and highlights of American history and historical figures, as well as excerpts from "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White and "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne .Volume 6, Through Fairy Halls , is when the children begin to relate the literature they read to the world around them such as music, art, and science. Exploration is found in any sort of Wonderland including such entries as "The Fairyland of Science," a story by Jean-Henri Fabre.Volume 7, The Magic Garden , contains more complex folktales and fairy tales and includes the first known "Cinderella" story, an Egyptian tale titled "Rhodopis and Her Gilded Sandals."There are also pomes by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and excerpts fro Shakespeare and Hawthorne. By this volume art appears every few pages and will continue in this manner for the rest of the series.Volume 8, Flying Sails , turns from fairy tales to stories of adventure, both real--"The Adventures of General Tom Thumb" by Phineas T. Barnham , and imagined--"Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput" by Jonathan Swift .Volume 9, The Treasure Chest , is more of the same kind of stories that appeared in Volume 8. Among other true stories in this book, we have "Exploring the Wilderness," the story of Daniel Boone and "The Adventures of Alexander Selkirk," the shipwrecked sailor whose story inspired Daniel Dafoe 's Robinson Crusoe .Included with other fictional stories are two Greek myths, two Norse myths, a story from the bible and "Hiawatha's Fasting" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .Volume 10, From the Tower Window , is comprised of heroic and romantic adventures taken from Russian, French, Spanish or Roman epics, as well as stories about Joan of Arc, Robert Bruce, and The Children's Crusade.Volume 11, In Shining Armor , continues the themes of Volume 10 with bits from German and Yugoslavian epics, along with Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address, a story of Robert E. Lee, and a tale of Old New York by Washington Irving titled "Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams."Volume 12, Halls of Fame , concludes the series with stories about the lives of thirty-five (primarily American or English) authors. It also includes "The Story of Faust," "An Interesting History of Old Mother Goose," and "The World's Greatest Epics."Parents guide supplemental volume- parentingYour Child's World - su... read more

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