Description: Dinty the PorcupineBook ThreeClara B. and Edna BakerThe Bobbs-Merrill Company1928 We're still using basal readers like these to teach kids how to read! This is Book Three in the True Story Series from The Bobbs-Merrill Company. It is geared toward students in third grade and designed to engage kids in reading the natural sciences. It includes favorites from James Whitcomb Riley, Johanna Spyri, Robert Louis Stevenson and more. The reader is divided into four sections - Queer Pets (stories about porcupines, bears, snails, prairie dogs, etc.), Clever Dogs and Cats, Boys and Girls, and Here and There (stories about nature adventures). Each section is illustrated with gorgeous, tinted, Art Nouveau illustrations by Vera Stone Norman. The cover is dark red decorated with a black and white picture of children feeding the book's namesake, Dinty the Porcupine. This book is in good vintage condition for its age and use. The cover has general wear with the cardboard of the cover exposed at the corners and spine. The bottom of the spine has begun to peel up exposing the pages underneath. Otherwise, the cover is bright with minimal wear to the illustration or lettering. The pages are slightly yellowed. Someone scribbled in pencil in the front and back covers and end pages. The book measures 5.5 inches long by 7.5 inches tall. It is .75 inches thick.
Price: 5 USD
Location: Centralia, Missouri
End Time: 2024-11-10T08:00:01.000Z
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Publication Year: 1928
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Dinty the Porcupine
Book Series: True Stories Series
Author: Clara B. Baker
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Genre: Children & Young Adults
Topic: Books
