My List Of Educational Children's Books

I am collecting any Basic Readers that I don't have -- mostly those prior to the early to mid 60s. I am especially interested in the Dick & Jane books (Scott, Foresman & Company Basic Readers), the Alice & Jerry Reading Foundation Books (Row, Peterson and Company), the Quinlan Readers (Allyn and Bacon) and the Linguistic Readers (Harper & Row).

BASIC READERS

I HAVE...
The New Basic Readers -- Curriculum Foundation Series --
Scott, Foresman and Company
Streets and Roads -- Student Edition (1946)
Guess Who -- Student Edition (1951)
The New Guess Who (Junior Primer) -- Teacher's Edition (1962)
The New Friends and Neighbors -- Student Edition (1956)
Fun With Our Friends (Primer) -- Student Edition (1962)
More Fun With Our Friends (Book 1) -- Student Edition (1962)
More Friends Old And New (Book 2, Part 2) -- Student Edition (1965) (split binding)
More Times and Places (Book 4) -- Student Edition (1955)
Vistas (Book 5) -- Student Edition (1965) (2 copies)
Challenges (Book 8) -- Student Edition (1968)

The Open Highways Readers -- Curriculum Foundation Series --
Scott, Foresman and Company
Rolling Along (Book 1, Part 2) -- Student Edition (1967)
Splendid Journeys (Book 3, Part 1) -- Student Edition (1968)
Open Highways (Book 4) -- Student Edition (1965)
Open Highways (Book 6) -- Teacher's Edition (1966)

Reading for Independence -- Curriculum Foundation Series --
Scott, Foresman and Company
The New What Next? Part Two -- Student Edition (1959)
The New Tall Tales Part Two --- Student Edition (1959)

Health and Personal Development Program -- Curriculum Foundation Series --
Scott, Foresman and Company
Five in the Family (1954)

Basic Health and Safety -- Curriculum Foundation Series --
Scott, Foresman and Company
Being Six (1962)
Seven or So -- Teacher's Edition (1957)

Reading Systems -- Scott, Foresman and Company
Levels 11 and 12

The Alice and Jerry Books -- Reading Foundation Series --
Row, Peterson and Company
Round About (1936)
Anything Can Happen (1940)
Day In and Day Out (1957)
Friendly Village (1957)

The Quinlan Readers -- Allyn and Bacon
To and Fro -- Basal Series (1939)
Busy World -- Third Reader (1952)

The Harper & Row Linguistic Readers
Six in a Mix -- Primer (1965) (2 copies)
Sea of Magic Ink -- Second Reader (1966) (2 copies)
Winging Through Lights and Shadows -- Third Reader (1967)

The Harper & Row Basic Reading Program
Around the Corner -- Teacher's Edition and Student Edition (1966)
All Through the Year -- Teacher's Edition (1966)
Trade Winds -- Student Edition (1966)
The Harper & Row Basic Reading Program --
How to Read in the Subject Matter Areas
From Bicycles to Boomerangs -- Student Edition (1966)
From Actors to Astronauts -- Student Edition (1964)

Design for Reading -- Harper & Row
From Dolphins to Dunes -- Level 8 (1973) (2 copies)
From Near and Far -- Level 11 (1972) (2 copies)
From Mysteries to Microbes -- Level 12 (1973) (2 copies)

Treasury of Literature -- Readtext Series --
Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc.
Enchanted Isles (1954)
Treat Shop (1960) Enlarged Edition
Foolish And Wise -- Teacher's Edition (1964)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Windmills -- Level 7 (1989)
Health -- Orange (1983)

Houghton-Mifflin Reading Series
Honeycomb -- (1978)
Passports -- (1976)

City Schools Reading Program --
Follet Educational Corporation
New Faces, New Places (1969)

360 Reading -- Ginn and Company
Seven Is Magic (1973)

The MacMillan Reading Program --
Macmillan Publishing Company
Into New Worlds (1974)

Comprehensive Reading Series
SRA (Science Research Associates, Inc., Chicago)
The Careless Astronaut (Level H) -- Student Edition (1966)

Sheldon Basic Reading Series
Magic Windows - Student Edition (1957)


Silver Burdett Company
Spell Correctly (5) -- Student Edition (1965)

The John C. Winston Company
Understanding Science (1951)

Home Environment Series -- Benefic Press

I HAVE...
Our Neighborhood (1961)

I DON'T HAVE...
Our Day
Our Way
Our Family
Our Home and School
Our Community

Holt, Rinehart and Winston -- Espanol: Entender y Hablar, 1961


REAL BOOKS -- GARDEN CITY BOOKS

The Real Book about Andrew Jackson, Harold Coy, 1952, (bce, dc)
The Real Book about Space Travel, Hal Goodwin, 1952, (bce, dc)
The Real Book about Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams, 1952, (bce, dc)
The Real Book about the Mounties, Irvin Block, 1952 (bce, dc)
The Real Book about Indians, Fred Collins, 1953 (bce, dc)
The Real Book about the Weather, Frank H. Forrester, 1958, (bce, dc)
The Real Book about Mountain Climbing, William B. McMorris, 1958,(bce, dc)
The Real Book about the Antarctic, Charles S. Strong, 1959, (bce, dc)
The Real Book about Our Armed Forces, Clayton and K.S. Knight, 1959, (bce, dc)

WE WERE THERE -- GROSSET & DUNLAP

We Were There With the Pony Express, William O. Steele , 1956, (bce, dc)
We Were There With the Mayflower Pilgrims, Robert N. Webb1956, (bce, dc)
We Were There With Byrd At the South Pole, Charles S. Strong1956, (bce, dc)
We Were There On The Nautilus, Robert N. Webb, 1961, (bce, dc)

SIGNATURE BOOKS -- GROSSET & DUNLAP

The Story of Lafayette, Hazel Wilson,1952, (bce, dc)
The Story of John Paul Jones, Iris Vinton, 1953, (bce, dc)
The Story of Pocahontas, Shirley Graham, 1953, (bce, dc)
The Story of General Custer, Margaret Leighton, 1954, (bce, dc)
The Story of Stephen Decatur, Iris Vinton, 1954, (bce, dc)
The Story of Martha Washington, Jeannette C. Nolan, 1954, (bce, dc)
The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Arthur J. Beckhard, 1956, (bce, dc)
The Story of Beethoven, Helen L. Kaufmann, 1957, (bce, dc)
The Story of Dan Beard, Robert N. Webb, 1958, (bce, dc)
The Story of Robert Louis Stevenson, Joan Howard, 1958, (bce, dc)

OTHER MISCELLANEOUS "EDUCATIONAL" BOOKS

Daniel Boone Wilderness Scout, Stewart Edward White, 1957, Junior Edition, bce
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1948, Illustrated Junior Library
The Little Lame Prince and The Adventures of a Brownie, Dinah Marie Mulock, 1956, Junior Deluxe Edition, bce
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1956, Junior Deluxe Edition, bce
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, 1954, Junior Deluxe Edition, bce
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson,1954, Junior Deluxe Edition, bce
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1947, Illustrated Junior Library
Wild Bill Hickok, Stewart H. Holbrook, 1952, Landmark Books


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