- Aesop
- Louisa May Alcott and Raymond MacDonald Alden
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Almingham and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Hans Christian Andersen and Peter Christen Asbjornsen
- Josephine Bacon, Caroline Sherwin Bailey, and P.T. Barnum
- Clara Bates, Henry Bennett, Bjornsterne Bjornson, William Blake and Abby Brown
- Frances Browne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
- William Bryant, Gelett Burgess, Thornton Burgess, and Robert Burns
- John Burroughs through Arthur Chapman
- Geoffrey Chaucer through Charles Dickens
- Emily Dickinson through Juliana Ewing
- Jean Henri Fabre and Georgene Faulkner
- Eugene Field through Kenneth Grahame
- Kate Greenaway through Elizabeth Harrison
- Nathaniel Hawthorne through Jean Ingelow
- Washington Irving through Joyce Kilmer
- Charles Kingsley through George MacDonald
- Walter de La Mare through James Whitcomb Riley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- John Ruskin through Salomon de La Selva
- William Shakespeare
- Percy Shelley through Israel Zangwill
- The Interesting History of Old Mother Goose
- The Origin of the Folk Tales
- What is a Myth?
- The World's Great Epics
- How to Judge Stories for Children
This is the final book in a six volume set of the "My Bookhouse" books. This final title in the series leaves off the format of the previous volumes and is geared towards the parent or teacher. The major part of the books deals with short biographies of the authors whose works appeared in the previous five volumes. Then follow several interesting sections, some of which include: the History of Mother Goose, The World's Great Epics, and How to Judge Stories for Children.
For the several indexes included in the second half of the book, including a historical index, a geographical index and others, please see the online text linked below. (Summary by Maria Therese)
For the several indexes included in the second half of the book, including a historical index, a geographical index and others, please see the online text linked below. (Summary by Maria Therese)
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