MY BOOK HOUSE, COMPLETE 12 BOOK SET PLUS THE PARENT'S GUIDE BOOK by OLIVE BEAPRE MILLER - 1948

CHICAGO: THE BOOK HOUSE FOR CHILDREN, 1948 RARE FULL SET, BEAUTIFUL COVERS, EXCELLENT SHAPE, DARK BLUE COVERS, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, ARTWORK ON ALL COVERS. WONDERFUL ARTWORK THOUGHOUT. BOOKS ARE- IN THE NURSERY, STORY TIME, UP ONE PAIR OF STAIRS, THROUGH THE GATE, OVER THE HILLS, THROUGH FAIRY HALLS, THE MAGIC GARDEN, FLYING SAILS, THE TREASURE CHEST, FROM THE TOWER WINDOW, IN SHINING ARMOR, HALLS OF FAME / INDEX and A PARENT'S GUIDE BOOK. TERRIFIC SET WITH BOOKS FILLED WITH STORIES BY FAMOUS AUTHORS WORLD WIDE. A SET THAT CAN BE A CHILDS AS GROWING, FAMILY AND ADULTS. SHOULD BE CHERISHED. Each of the original thicker volumes were divided and made more picture-book-like and easier for a child to handle. The style of illustration and text were changed as well from the original 1920s edition. Olive Beaupré Miller (Olive Kennon Beaupré) (September 11, 1883 – March 25, 1968) was an American writer, publisher and editor of children's literature. She was born in Aurora, Illinois on September 11, 1883, to William S. and Julia (Brady) Beaupré. She received her B.A. from Smith College in 1904. In 1919 Miller established a company, The Book House for Children, to publish popular children's literature edited by herself to meet her standards: "First,--To be well equipped for life, to have ideas and the ability to express them, the child needs a broad background of familiarity with the best in literature. "Second,--His stories and rhymes must be selected with care that he may absorb no distorted view of life and its actual values, but may grow up to be mentally clear about values and emotionally impelled to seek what is truly desirable and worthwhile in human living. "Third,--The stories and rhymes selected must be graded to the child's understanding at different periods of his growth, graded as to vocabulary, as to subject matter and as to complexity of structure and plot." ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.