Books with author Olive Beaupre Miller

The original, classic motivational tale with stunning new art in a handsome edition. The Little Engine is a classic fairytale that all children should know. Originally written in the early 20th century, the story is one of perseverance and confidence. You and your child can now read this original children’s classic with this new edition full of colorful illustrations.The Little Engine follows a little train engine who takes up the task of carrying a large train up a massive hill—a task that larger and more accomplished engines refused to do. The little engine huffs and puffs his way up the hill, struggling to carry his heavy load. However, he is positive and confident the whole way and ends up succeeding in his mission, making it over the crest of the hill and down the other side. Reading about the results of positivity, and perseverance in this beautiful new edition of The Little Engine will leave your child (and you) feeling confident and thinking “I think I can, I think I can” all day long!

1926. Tales Told in Holland consists chiefly of stories with a few translations from the greatest Dutch poets and a few old Dutch nursery rhymes, naive and nonsensical as our English rhymes, and contrasting interestingly with the far more sophisticated rhymes of the French. There is at least one story from each of the eleven Dutch Provinces, which form the kingdom of the Netherlands. In addition to these folk tales, there are tales of the great Dutch artists, that wonderful group whom even Italy could scarcely excel, and stories with a background introducing all the high spots in Dutch history, from the time when the Netherlands formed a part of the Empire of Charlemagne through her most dramatic days of struggle for independence from Spain and down to the Peace Palace of today. Thus this book comes to reveal in a way most interesting to the child, as much as possible of all sides of Dutch life; its history, art, literature, geography, and customs as well as the Dutchman's sense of humor, his love of cleanliness and thrift, his sturdy independence and the character of his fancies.

Excerpt from Tales Told in HollandThere is at least one story from each of the eleven Dutch Provinces, which form the kingdom of the Netherlands; fanciful folk tales from the little known heath and fen country of Groningen, Drente, Overyssel and Gelderland where the folk must make up for the barrenness of their land by the fruitfulness of their fancy; realistic tales from the green and fertile provinces of Friesland, Utrecht, North Holland, South Holland and Zeeland, with their typical Dutch scenery, - flat green fields, wind mills, little red-roofed houses, dykes, and black and white cows, - a coun try so satisfying that the good folk accept the world as their two eyes behold it and do not fly away on the wings of fancy but are quite as mat ter-of - fact as their excellent Edam cheese; and so on the stories go through the province of North Brabant to Limburg, the land of ancient Sagas of Charlemagne, bordering his capital of aix-la-chapelle, and full of the atmosphere of romantic legend.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Explorations, Part II is Volume 8 of A Picturesque Tale of Progress by Olive Beaupre Miller and Harry Neal Baum. It was first published in this form by The Book House for Children in 1949 and was reprinted several times from 1949 to 1957. The book is bound in black boards with gilt titles and a color paste-down illustration on the front by Maurice Greenberg. The decorated end papers are illustrated in an art deco style by Mariel Wilhoite, and there are profuse color and black-and-white illustrations throughout the book, many by notable book illustrators. The contents include: Chapter I: Land in the West; Chapter II: Ancient America; Chapter III: The Brilliant Civilization of the Mayas; Chapter IV: The Conquest of Mexico; Chapter V: The Indians of the Southwest; Chapter VI: The Conquest of Peru; A General Summary of This Period; and an Index. It should be noted that the material in this book first appeared as part of Olive Beaupre Miller's My Book of History: A Picturesque Tale of Progress in four volumes: Volume One: Beginnings (1929), Volume Two: Conquests (1930), Volume Three: New Nations (1931), and Volume Four: Explorations (1933). In 1935, Miller, realizing that these four thick volumes were somewhat cumbersome for small children's tiny hands, made the decision to split each volume into two parts. In addition to increasing the number of volumes, the series title was slightly altered, and My Book of History: A Picturesque Tale of Progress in four volumes became simply A Picturesque Tale of Progress in eight volumes: Volume 1: Beginnings, Part I; Volume 2: Beginnings, Part II; Volume 3: Conquests, Part I; Volume 4: Conquests, Part II; Volume 5: New Nations, Part I; Volume 6: New Nations, Part II; Volume 7: Explorations, Part I; and Volume 8: Explorations, Part II. A ninth volume, an extensive Index, was added when the set was revised in 1949.