The Field Third Reader
Walter Taylor Field
This is a lovely little third level reader, published in 1924, with gorgeous illustrations by Blanche Fisher Laite. It was written by Walter Taylor Field and published by Ginn and Company. It's pretty beat up as it was used in a school, although I am not sure where it came from, it's one I picked up undoubtedly from an estate sale. It is an interesting mix of Native American folklore, historical stories, Bible stories, fantasy, and other everyday life stories, mixed in with poems, and there are vocabulary words listed at the end of each story. I enjoyed reading this, I always feel inspired after reading old readers, to come up with a new reader in the style of the old ones. Maybe someday, who knows. This will be going into my collection of vintage and antique readers.
