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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 5 of the 12 Volume set.

PREFACE: In "Over the Hills," the child, having passed through the gate, journeys still farther afield in his excursions into life. He travels to Switzerland in the beautiful story of "Heidi in the Alpine Pasture," written by the great Swiss author of children's stories, Johanna Spyri. In "The Nuremberg Stove," by Louise de la Rame'e, he shares all the adventures of the boy August, hidden in the beautiful procelain stove, and he goes with August on the thrilling journey from Austria to Munich...

Volume 4 of 7 volumes. Red cloth binding with embossed gilt titles and decorations. Paste-down illustration by J. Allen St. John. Stories and poems include: The Arab to His Horse by Bayard Taylor; Ariel's Song by William Shakespeare; The Babe of Bethlehem (The Bible); The Barber's by Walter de la Mare; Betsy Ross and the First American Flag; Beyond the Toll-Gate by Sarah Orne Jewett; Bikku Matti (Finnish) by Zacharias Topelius (Translated by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen); The Birches by Walter Pritchard Eaton; Blunder by Louise E. Chollet; Boots and His Brothers (Norse) by Sir George Webb Dasent; A Child's Thought of God by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Christening the Baby in Russia by Arthur Ransome; The Circus Parade by Olive Beaupre Miller; Dick Whittington and His Cat (An English Folk Tale); Elsa and the Ten Elves (A Swedish Fairy Tale); The Fairy Who Judged Her Neighbors by Jean Ingelow; The Feast of Tabernacles (The Bible); The Girl Who Used Her Wits (A Chinese Folk Tale); Hassan, the Arab, and His Horse; Heidi in the Alpine Pasture by Johanna Spyri; Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Ikwa and Annowee (Eskimo) by Elizabeth E. Foulke; Jack and the Beanstalk (An English Folk Tale); Old Johnny Appleseed (An American Legend); Marjorie's Almanac by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Master of All Masters by Joseph Jacobs; The Moon by Vachel Lindsay; The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear; The Peddler's Caravan by William Brighty Rands; Piccola (A Christmas Story); The Planting of the Apple Tree by William Cullen Bryant; The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express by William Dean Howells; A Psalm of David (The Bible); A Roumanian Folk Song; The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde; The Little Snow Maiden (A Russian Folk Tale); Song of the Leprechaun by William Allingham; Thumbelisa by Hans Christian Andersen; Toads and Diamonds (French) by Charles Perrault; The Story of Tom Thumb (An English Folk Tale); Two Little Birds and a Great Man; and We Thank Thee by Ralph Waldo Emerson.