Excerpt from The Elson Readers, Vol. 1 The stories and poems throughout the book represent the best to be found in child-literature, and include a wide variety, thus appealing to many phases of child-interest and supplying material suited to the varied needs of the school. There are stories not only from the past fables and folk tales but also present day stories, rich in ideals of home and country and of helpfulness to others ideals to which the World War has given new mean ing that the school-reader should perpetuate. This book is distinctive for the large amount of reading matter that it contains, as well as for the care with which the 425 words of the text are distributed. Simplicity of vocabulary and sentence structure characterizes the book throughout. Some of the stories of Book One are presented in dramatized form, while many others lend themselves admirably to this treat ment, thus offering project material of an excellent type. The many action stories particularly adapt this book to the purposes of silent reading, a project of another important kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.