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Eugene Field  Reader by Alice L. Harris c. 1905 Charles Scribner's Sons	Coming  Soon Fox's Indian Primer by Florence C. Fox c. 1906 American book Company	Work-A-Day Doings  by Emma Serl and  Vivian Evans Illustrated  by Harry E. Wood c. 1914 Silver, Burdett and Co.	The Winston Readers First Reader by Sidney G. Firman  and Ethel H. Maltby  Illustrated by  Frederick Richardson c. 1918 John C. Winston Co.	Reading for Children First Book  For Children of From  Six to Seven Years by Clara B. Baker and  Edna D. Baker Illustrated by Vera Stone c. 1923 The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
The  Smedley & Olsen New Primer by Eva A. Smedley and  Martha C. Olsen Illustrated  by Matilda Breuer c. 1926 Hall & McCreary Co.	My First Book by Bessie Blackstone  Coleman Illustrated  by Shirley Kite c. 1927 Silver, Burdett and Co.	Child-Story Readers Terry and Billy by Frank N. Freeman, Grace E. Storm, Eleanor M. Johnson and W. C. French Illustrated  by Vera Stone Norman c. 1927-1929 Lyons and Carnahan, Publishing	Little Stories To Read A Pre-Primer by Eva A. Smedley  and Martha C. Olsen c. 1932 Hall & McCreary Co.	The New Path To Reading by Anna Dorothea Cordts c. 1935 by Ginn and Company

David's Friends  at School  by Paul R. Hanna, Genevieve Anderson and William S. Gray Illustrated  by Nellie Farnam and Clarence Biers c. 1936 Scott, Foresman and Co.	Down Our Street by Arthur I. Gates,  Miriam Blanton Huber,  and Celeste Comegys Design and Illustrations  by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge and Charles B. Falls, David Hendrickson, Lucille Patterson Marsh, Herbert Stoops, Kaherine Sturges, Adolph Treidler c. 1939 The Macmillan Company (1940 printing)	Coming  Soon Little Pig's Picnic  and Other Stories by Margaret Wise Brown Illustrated by Walt Disney Studio c. 1939 D. C. Heath and Company	Good Stories by Gertrude Hildreth,  Allie Lou Felton, Mabel J. Henderson, Alice Meighen Illustrated by Erick Berry, Frederick  T. Chapman  and Joan Esley c. 1940 John C. Winston Co. 1951 edition

At Don's Farm by Laura Ulery Illustrated by  Helen Chamberlain c. 1940 Lyons and Carnahan	My Little Green Storybook by Odille Ousley  David H. Russell Illustrations by Ruth Sneed c. 1948, 1949, 1953,  1957, 1961, 1964 Ginn and Company	The Big Show by Paul McKee, M. Lucille Harrison, Annie McCowen,  and Elizabeth Lehr Pictures by Corinne Malvern c. 1949 Houghton Mifflin Company 1957 paperback edition of an early easy reader (1st Cover)	The Big Show by Paul McKee, M. Lucille Harrison, Annie McCowen,  and Elizabeth Lehr Pictures by Corinne Malvern c. 1949 Houghton Mifflin Company 1963 edition of an (2nd Cover)	Where Is  Cubby Bear by Adda Mai Sharp Illustrated by  Elizabeth Rice c. 1950 The Steck Company

The Christmas Tree by Gates, Huber, Salisbury Illustrated by Charles Payzant  and Associates  Helen Hanseb, Sylvia Holland, Janet Page, Basil Davidovich, Ernest Terrazas c.1951 The Macmillan Co.	Under the Apple Tree by Odille Ousley Illustrated  by Ruth Steed and Catherine Scholz c. 1953 Ginn and Company	Our Town by William D. Sheldon, Queenie  B. Mills and  Merle B Karnes Illustrated by Robert Candy, Dulcianne Vye, Constance Heffron, Beryl Bailey-Jones  and Kathryn M. De Faria c. 1957 Allyn and Bacon, Inc. (1961 edition)	The Boy Who Would Not Say His Name  by Elizabeth Vreeken Illustrated by  Leonard Shortall Beginning to Read Series Level 2 c. 1959 Follett Publishing Co.

Dan Frontier  Goes Hunting by William Hurley  Illustrations by Jack Boyd c. 1959 Benefic Press	Coming Soon Dan Frontier  With  the Indians by William Hurley  Illustrations by Jack Boyd c. 1959 Benefic Press	Open Roads by Several authors (See table of contents) Illustrators include Irene Haas,  Lee Ames, Sheilah Beckett, Donald Bolognese, Mel Crawford, Herbert Ddanska, Dick Dodge, Joe and  Beth Krush, Jane March, Artur  Marokvis and Tom Sullivan Golden Rule Series  (The Modern McGuffey Readers) c.1961 Scott, Foresman and Co.	The New We Three by Marion Monroe  and A Sterl Artley Illustrator Pat Rosado c.1963 Scott, Foresman and Co.	Being Me Authors include  Alma Whitney, Charlotte  Zolotow, and Elizabeth Levy  (See table of contents) c. 1967 Macmillan Publishing Co.

A Big, Big Man by Louis Krane Illustrated by Paul Grout and Sidney Quinn A Pre-primer Book 1 c. 1967 Modern Curriculum	A Mule on a Kite by Louis Krane Illustrated by Paul Grout and Sidney Quinn A Pre-primer Book 3 c. 1967 Modern Curriculum	At Home and Away  by William D. Sheldon, Queenie B. Mills, and Merle B. Karnes Illustrated by Eleanor Mill and Al Fiorentino c. 1969 Allyn and Bacon, ,Inc.	I Like Cowboys by Christine Woyke Illustrated  by June Goldsborough c. 1969 The Macmillian Company	Swings and Things by Janice May Udry Illustrated by Lois Axeman c. 1971 Scott, Foresman and Co.
The Big-City Book by Lillian Moore and  James Steel Smith Illustrated by  Thomas O'Sullivan and Grant/Jacoby, Inc. Photographs by  Abbott & Hollis Studio  c. 1971 Scott, Foresman and Co.	Magic Afternoon Stories by Elizabeth K. Cooper Illustrations  by Walter Brooks and   Margaret Hathaway c. 1979 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	Our Good Friends by Loreli Olson Steuer Illustrated by Tom Tierney c. 1980 Holt, Rinehart and Winston	Balloons by James Marshall, Tim  Johnson, David McPhail and  Bonnie Brown Walmsley Illustrators: James Marshall,  Ellen Appleby, Jane Dyer, David McPhail,  James Watling,  Jill Webber and Marc Brown c. 1981 Houghton Mifflin Co.	Cooking pot Written by Joy Cowley,  Margaret May and June Melser Illustrators: Deirdre Gardiner, Rachel Waddy, Liz Fuller,  Philip Webb, Murray Grimsdale, David Cowe, Martin Bailey,  Annie Dickeson, Rodney McRae, Robyn Kahukiwa c. 1982 Shortland Publications

Dick and Jane Books

Fun with  Dick and Jane  by William S. Gray and May Hill Arbuthnot Illustrated by Eleanor Campbell  and Keith Ward c. 1940 Scott, Foresman and Co. (First/early edition)	Fun with Dick and Jane (Author and Illustrator unstated) c. 1940 Scott, Foresman and Co. (2004 paperback edition by Grosset & Dunlap)	Dick and Jane We Play Outside (Author and Illustrator unstated) c. 1951  Scott, Foresman and Co. (2005 Grosset & Dunlap Edition)
Dick and Jane Who Can Help? (Author and Illustrator unstated) c. 1951, 1956 Scott, Foresman and Co. (2004 Grosset & Dunlap Edition)	Dick and Jane We Look (Author and Illustrator unstated) c. 1956 Scott, Foresman and Co. (2003 Grosset & Dunlap Edition)	Sally Dick and Jane  Helen M. Robinson  Marion Monroe  A. Sterl Artley  Illustrator, Bob Childress "The New Basic Readers" c. 1962 (illust.) Scott, Foresman and Co. Earlier Pre-primers of this  Basic Reading Program  were copyrighted in  1921, 1927, 1930,  1934, 1936, 1940, 1946, 1951,1956

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