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acorns Aunty babies Blue Bottle bonnet boys and girls cake castle caught Christmas CHRISTMAS EVE clever climb clothes cold corner dirty Doctor Muff says doll elephant fairy FAIRY TALE Father Christmas feet fills his trunk flies fond fright go to school grandpa Ha-ha HUGHES'S Hurrah JOSEPH HUGHES kind laugh Lessons letters little bit afraid little folks little girl little gnats LITTLE MASTER MISCHIEF little sisters live look lots mend monkey mother never noise nose nuts Obbie Oh dear old white hen once PATERNOSTER SQUARE peep penny phant Poor old postman puss riddle ride romp round scold sea-side shrimps snow spice stay Stories for Infants STORIES FOR STANDARD tail TALE tease tell THREE TUNS PASSAGE to-geth-er tree tried tusks umph Uncle John W. T. GREENUP wise old
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Page 1 - Stockwell Kinder Garten Training College. " If we are asked what is the best ' First Reading-Book," we shall say, Langler's."— The School and Teacher. "Quite a boon to the little folks." — Journal of Education. "An excellent little book."— Educational Report. "Excellent. Admirably adapted to interest children. " — Recorder. "Rarely is a class-book so carefully graduated, and so clearly and boldly printed. The lessons are equally adapted to the analytic and synthetic method. We strongly recommend...
Page 2 - Book ever Issued for the little ones. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The Educational News says: — ' Mrs. Greenup has here given us exactly such a book as an intelligent child would choose for its own reading, so soon as it acquired the power of reading with any degree of facility.
Page 1 - Series includes the Roman and Script Alphabets. The New Edition of this well-known Series of Reading Lessons is issued in an attractive form, on very good paper, and in a clear, bold, distinct type. The carefully graduated system on which these lessons are constructed has secured the highest...
Page 1 - Part I cloth, 3d. ,,II 3d. Complete Primer — very strongly bound, cased 6d. First Reader (Standard I.) „ „ 6d. Adopted by the London and other principal School Boards. The remaining Books of the Series will be issued with as little delay as possible. OPINIONS. The Schoolmaster, says, — " This Primer has been prepared with exceptional pains. It is an admirable specimen of letter-buildiny, and leads the pupil by very easy and ingenious stages towards a knowledge of reading.
Page 2 - Like all Mrs. Greenup's books, these Stories for Infants are quite a success. They are short, vivid, and amusing ; just the sort of book to make a child try to read it for the amusement it affords. The point of all the tales is to teach kindness to animals, —a most necessary lesson for young...
Page 2 - They are short, vivid, and amusing ; just the sort of book to make a child try to read it for the amusement it affords. The point of all the tales is to teach kindness to animals, —a most necessary lesson for young children, which could not be better enforced than it is here.