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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.

Volume 6 of 7 volumes. Red cloth binding with embossed gilt titles and decorations. Paste-down illustration. Folk tales and poems include: The Acorn and the Pumpkin by La Fontaine; Afar in the Desert (South African) by Thomas Pringle; April by John Galsworthy; The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling; The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe; The Boy and the Elf (from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) by Selma Lagerlof; The Cataract of Lodore by Robert Southey; The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Columbine and Her Playfellows of the Italian Pantomime; David and Goliath (The Bible); East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon (Norse); Fairy Forests by Alfred Noyes; The Fog by Carl Sandburg; Gigi and the Magic Ring (Italian) by Anne Macdonell; The Golden Bird (German); The Golden Touch by Nathaniel Hawthorne; How Brer Rabbit Met Brer Tar-Baby (American Negro); How the Waterfall Came to the Thirsting Mountain; The Humming Bird; Little Diamond and the North Wind by George MacDonald; The Lost Spear (South African); The Man Who Loved Hai Quai (American-Indian); Melilot (English) by Henry Morley; Miska and the Man-with-the-Iron-Head (Hungarian Fairy Tale); The Pedlar's Song by William Shakespeare; Phaeton (A Greek Myth); Prince Cherry (French) by Madame La Princesse De Beaumont; The Adventures of Punch and Judy; The Ragged Pedlar (Jewish) by Aunt Naomi; Rhodopis (The First Cinderella Story) (Egyptian); The Six Swans (German); The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen; Through the Mouse Hole (Czech); Tudur ap Einion (Welsh); The Two Bad Bargains (Yugoslavian); and The Adventures of Yehl (Alaskan).