We Work and Play. Basic Readers: Curriculum Foundation Series
Chicago - Atlanta - Dallas - New York: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1940. [First Edition]. Original wraps. 8vo., pp. 62, black cloth-backed tape spine, gold paper covers, illustrated in color by Eleanor Campbell. Very good ++. Item #10523
"Born June 5, 1885, and an Adams County school student, Gray is credited with changing the way children in America over five decades learned to read. By the time of his death Sept. 8, 1960, Gray was recognized as the country’s foremost authority in literacy and reading education. School readers before Gray’s “Dick and Jane” books were mostly text with excerpts from literature or the Bible. Illustrations were few. Gray’s classroom experiences in Adams County had taught him that children could learn to read more easily by reversing that equation. He saw the value of illustration rather than description in telling stories in a way to interest children in reading. Simple stories. Few words. Large, color illustrations......."-hsqac.org.
Price: $45.00