Friends and Neighbors
May Hill Arbuthnot Gray, William S.
Textbook Binding
(Scott, Foresman, March 15, 1941)
This is a basal reader that is an extension of the Dick and Jane series that many readers fell in love with as children. It is an early-second grade version that offers short, intriguing stories. There is a little something for everyone, from familiar stories like The Three Little Pigs and City Mouse & Country Mouse, to animal stores about crows, elephants, bears, rabbits, and roosters. My favorite feature is the way that newly introduced words appear that appear in one story, are repeated again in later stories, allowing the reader's vocabulary to grow with repeated encounters until the new words become familiar. (Amazon customer)