Books published by publisher The Book House for Children

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.

My Book House Complete Set. Volumes 1-12. Rainbow Edition. Volume colors gradually change from light green to dark green to dark blue to light blue. 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.

Volume 8 of 12 Volumes. Glossy, white boards with stamped-on color illustration on front cover and light green and gold lettering on front and spine. Illustrated end papers. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. 1971. Lake Bluff, Illinois: The United Educators, Inc. 224 pages. The stories and poems in this volume include: The Adventures of General Tom Thumb: A True Story by Phineas T. Barnum; Afar in the Desert by Thomas Pringle; A Boy on the High Seas by Olive Beaupre Miller; A Christmas Song at Sea by Alfred Noyes; The Circus Man by Phineas T. Barnum; The Enchanted Island by Howard Pyle; The Greatest Show on Earth by Olive Beaupre Miller; Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput by Jonathan Swift; John Paul Jones, the First American Naval Hero; Maggie Tulliver Goes to Live with the Gypsies by George Eliot; The Magic Horse from The Arabian Nights; Meg Merrilies by John Keats; Mr. Hampden's Shipwreck by John Masefield; Recollections of the Arabian Nights by Alfred Tennyson; A Song of Drake's Men by Alfred Noyes; The Story of the Talking Bird from The Arabian Nights; Sea Fever by John Masefield; A Song of Drake's Men by Alfred Noyes; The Story of the Talking Bird from The Arabian Nights; The Tempest Told from the Play by William Shakespeare; A Wanderer's Song by John Masefield; A Whaling Adventure; and Young Midshipman David Farragut.

35th printing 1953. My Book House begins with nursery rhymes, which appeal to the very young baby through their rhythm and music long before he can understand words. It is with nursery rhymes that you can first get the baby's attention and train him to listen and concentrate. Through them also and through the stories that follow them, the child is helped to learn words and increase his vocabulary, so by the time he goes to school he has the confidence that comes with the ability to express himself and his ideas. From the nursery rhymes, My Book House progresses through a natural, carefully graded continuity, leading the child gradually from the simplest stories to those that are more complex. This is Volume 7 of the 12 Volume set.