Books with author Olive Beaupré Miller

From Mother Goose to Shakespeare, this edition of Story Time from the acclaimed My Book House series assembles the beloved nursery rhymes, chants, and children's poetry of many cultures. Colorful illustrations add imaginative zest to Japanese lullabies, American Indian songs, Russian rhymes, and other folklore favorites. Readers of all ages will delight in the tales and verse of Robert Louis Stevenson, Kate Greenaway, Christina Rossetti, Robert Burns, and other popular storytellers. Selections include Aesop's fable of The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, Longfellow's "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," "My Beloved Is Gone Down into His Garden" from the Song of Solomon, nonsense rhymes by Edward Lear, "The Strange Adventure of the Baron Munchausen," and other timeless childhood treasures.

From Mother Goose to Shakespeare, this volume assembles more than 350 beloved nursery rhymes, chants, and children's poems from around the world. Hundreds of colorful illustrations enhance the old English ballads, American Indian songs, Italian rhymes, and other folklore favorites of In the Nursery from the acclaimed My Book House series.Readers of all ages will delight in the tales and poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, Kate Greenaway, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, and other popular storytellers. Selections include Alfred Lord Tennyson’s "Sweet and Low," "There Was a Naughty Boy" by John Keats, "The Little Girl and the New Dress" adapted from Hans Christian Andersen, and scores of lullabies, nonsense verses, and other cherished poems of childhood.

The information in this beautifully illustrated set of volumes was gathered from many sources and compiled into volumes so that as a child grew, the interest and complexity of what was offered to read, grew with them. The volumes have been reprinted, and updated regularly from 1928 onward. From the first volume, which contains nursery rhymes, fairy tails and fables to the twelfth volume, which covers Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, and Jesse Owens, it has been edited and updated in content from the original. The magic of this set is that it is classic, well written and it urges the reader to explore the original works in more depth.

Volume 2 of 12. Navy blue or light green binding. 1937. The contents include: Across the Fields; An American Miner's Song; Answer to a Child's Question; At Christmas Play & Make Good Cheer; The Bee, the Mouse & the Bum-Clock; A Belgian Morning; Belling the Cat; The Birds' Convention; A Bohemian Evening; The Bow That Bridges Heaven; A Boy in the Island of Bali; Building the Bridge; The City Mouse & the Country Mouse; The Cock, the Mouse, & the Little Red Hen; Come, Little Leaves; Dame Wiggins of Lee; The Dancing Monkeys; Dawlish Fair; The Donkey & the Lap Dog; An Explanation of the Grasshopper; A German Evening; The Gingerbread Man; Goldfinch; Grasshopper Green; The Hare & the Tortoise; Heap on More Wood; How the Finch Got Her Colors; I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day; Jack Frost; Johnny & the Three Goats; Krazy Kat; Late; Laughing Song; Little Black Sambo; The Little Dog Waltz; The Little Engine That Could; The Little Gray Pony; Little Gustava; Little Hansworst; The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings; The Little Red Hen & the Grain of Wheat; The Lion & the Mouse; The Magpie's Nest; Moon, So Round and Yellow; The Night Before Christmas; Noah's Ark; Nurse's Song; Old Shellover; Ole Shut-Eyes, the Sandman; The Owl & the Pussy-Cat; Paper Boats; Please Give Me a Ride; The Poor Old Lady; The Purple Cow; Reen-Reen-Reeny-Croak-Frog; The Rooster & the Sultan; The Sheep & the Pig That Made a Home; Shingebiss; Snow; A Song for Easter; The Song of the Sea; The Song of the Flea; Spring Songs from the Bible; The Star; The Strange Adventures of Baron Munchausen; The Sugar-Plum Tree; A Swedish Evening; The Tale of Nutcracker; The Tale of Peter Rabbit; The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Ten Little Indians; There Was an Old Man with a Beard; The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking; The Twilight; Two Birds & Their Nest; Two Children; The Two Crabs; The Ugly Duckling; Uncle Mitya's Horse; The Village of Cream Puffs; Wee Robin's Christmas Song; Whisky Frisky; and Wynken, Blynken, & Nod.

Originally published in 1922 as a portion of the larger “My Book House, Volume 6: The Latch Key,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes the life of children’s author and novelist Louisa May Alcott.Sample passage:Louisa was a strong, active, handsome girl with blue eyes and a perfect mane of heavy chestnut hair. She could run for miles and miles and never get tired and she was as sturdy as a boy. Indeed, her mother used sometimes to call her Jo in fun and say that Jo was her only son. Jo loved to climb trees and leap fences, run races and roll hoops, and when she was not playing with her sisters she liked best to play with boys. But beside all these lively sports, Louisa liked, too, to curl herself up in a chair and read or study. Sometimes she would go off alone up into the garret, taking a pile of apples with her and her favorite book. There she would read and munch away in happy solitude. All day long she had interesting thoughts and often she wrote these down in her diary. She used to make up stories, too, and tell them to her sisters.About the author:Olive Beaupré Miller (1883-1968) was an American author, publisher, and editor of books for children. Other works include “Engines and Brass Bands,” “Heroes, Outlaws and Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales,” and “Heroes of the Bible.”

Originally published in 1922 as a portion of the larger “My Book House, Volume 6: The Latch Key,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes the life of naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, soldier, and 26th U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt.Sample passage:When he was graduated from college he decided that the real fighters of his day were the men who went into politics and used their weapons there in behalf of Justice and Fair Play, so he deliberately joined the Twenty-fifth District Republican Association.“But politics are so low,” said his aristocratic friends with their noses in the air. “And political organizations are not controlled by gentlemen, but by saloon keepers, streetcar conductors and the like!”“Very well,” replied Theodore with emphasis. “If saloon keepers and streetcar conductors are the men who are governing the United States, and lawyers and merchants are merely the ones being governed, then decidedly saloon keepers and streetcar conductors are the ones I want to know.” And off he went to attend meetings of the Association in a great barnlike hall over a saloon in 59th Street. Joe Murray, a stockily built Irishman with a strong chin and twinkling eyes who had come to America steerage at the age of three, might not be so romantic as an old Norse Viking but he was a good fighter when it came to doing battle with the Political Ring and its “Big Boss” who had governed the Twenty-fifth District in their own interests for years. Young Roosevelt joined forces with Joe Murray, standing vehemently for whatever he deemed was right, and the first thing he knew he had defeated the Big Boss and his Ring and was elected a member of the New York State Assembly. There he was distinguishing himself for attacks on many corrupt practices that needed reforming when the death of his wife in 1883 sent him West to Chimney Butte.About the author:Olive Beaupré Miller (1883-1968) was an American author, publisher, and editor of books for children. Other works include “Engines and Brass Bands,” “Heroes, Outlaws and Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales,” and “Heroes of the Bible.”