For Primary Teachers

The Folk-Lore Readers.

By Eulalie Osgood Grover, author of "The Sunbonnet Babies' Primer." THE best approach to literature is through the folk tales, fables, classic myths and imaginative legends that have come.down to us from the childhood of the various races. This series of Readers is the first attempt to organize and grade this material. No other Readers so develop the imagination and seize the interest of the child. The Primer. The "Folk-Lore Primer" is based on simple nursery rhymes already familiar to the child. This leaves his attention free for mastering the technical difficulties of reading and gives him the pleasure of meeting familiar rhymes on the printed page. There are frequent lessons in dialogue to secure natural expression. The book has a vocabulary of only 283 words and is illustrated in colors by Margaret Ely Webb. Cloth, 112 pages. Price 30 cents. Book One. This book begins where the Primer leaves off. The lessons are based largely on nursery rhymes, Aesop's fables, folk-lore stories and simple verses. They are unusually rhythmic and dramatic in quality and appeal at once to the child's imagination. The book is illustrated throughout in colors by Margaret Ely Webb. Cloth, 112 pages. Price 30 cents. Book Two. This book undoubtedly contains the choicest collection of graded folk-lore material for the second grade available. It answers the question of the second grade teacher in search of interesting reading material. Illustrated in colors by Margaret Ely Webb. Cloth, 160 pages. Price 40 cents. Other books in this series are in active preparation.

The Art-Literature Readers.

By Frances Elizabeth Chutter and Eulalie Osgood Grover.

HERE is a series of Literary Readers that in addition to having portraits, biographical sketches and selections from well-known authors, has portraits, biographical sketches and reproductions of great paintings by famous artists. This gives them a culture value possessed by no other Readers. The biographical sketches of both authors and artists are delightfully told.

The Primer. The lessons in the "Art-Literature Primer" are drawn from famous paintings and familiar rhymes which deal with children's interests and activities. They are short, dramatic and colloquial. They teach the child to read as he talks. It is one of the simplest primers published, with a vocabulary of only 258 words. Illustrated with 43 reproductions of famous paintings in colors by the duotype process. Cloth, 112 pages. Price, 30 cents. Book One. This book continues the lessons of the Primer, the increase in difficulty being very slight. A larger number of pieces of literature are worked into the lessons than into any other First Reader. With 42 reproductions of paintings in colors by the duotype process. Cloth, 112 pages. Price 30 cents. Book Two. In this book the biographical sketches of authors and artists are introduced as a part of the reading matter for the child. The authors so treated are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Robert Louis Stevenson; the artists are Sir Joshua Reynolds and Rosa Bonheur. Many other authors and artists are represented. Illustrated with 38 reproductions of portraits and famous paintings in colors by the duotype process. Cloth, 160 pages. Price 40 cents.

Other books in this series are in active preparation.

ATKINSON, MENTZER & GROVER, CHICAGO AND BOSTON