Books with author Olive Beaupre 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.

My Book House Complete Set. Volumes 1-12. Navy Blue Edition. First published in 1937 and continuously reprinted from 1937 through 1965 by The Book House for Children, Lake Bluff, Illinois. Edited by Olive Beaupre Miller. The set is comprised of Volume 1: In the Nursery; Volume 2: Story Time; Volume 3: Up One Pair of Stairs; Volume 4: Through the Gate; Volume 5: Over the Hills; Volume 6: Through Fairy Halls; Volume 7: The Magic Garden; Volume 8: Flying Sails; Volume 9: The Treasure Chest; Volume 10: From The Tower Window; Volume 11: In Shining Armor; and Volume 12: Halls of Fame. Halls of Fame also contains an index to all twelve volumes.

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.