My Year of the Book - Day 64: It’s Monday. Time to head back to school, and like yesterday, back in time as well. I’ve collected sets of many childhood reading series, and one of my favorites is the Ginn Basic Readers. More than 20 titles were published from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s (by my era, we used revised editions). Each grade level K-6 had 2-4 books (the dots and dashes on the spines were the code) and a companion Teacher’s Edition, and I have really come to appreciate those. I had no idea my reading and learning was so “intentional” back then. :) “Wings to Adventure” (Photo 2) was one of two 6th grade readers, and I love all the details. The artwork in Photo 3 even shows two copies of it on the teacher’s desk as she plans her lesson! There are dozens of other illustrations which do not appear in the student editions, which I find interesting (to hold a teacher’s attention?), and each TE also contains the complete Student Edition in addition to all of the teaching materials, making these pretty hefty. The theme of “WTA” was discovery and travel, so we read dozens of stories and poems, including Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and the first two stanzas of Tolkien’s “Roads.” I guess Ginn and my teachers did a great job, for I still love this big, wide, wonderful world...AND Ginn Readers. :) #ginnreaders #book #childrensbooks #schoolbooks #childhoodmemories #bookstagram #booklover #booksofinstagram #bookworm #bookgeek #bookshelf #mylibrary #rarebooks #bibliophile #ilovereading #mycollection #bookish #youngreaders #curriculum #ilovebooks #library #backtoschool #learning #learn #travel #collectibles
