Description
No Dust Jacket as issued. The Good binding is staple-bound, illustrated paper over boards with a paper spine, the front cover shows multiple illustrations with words below the illustration with red, light blue and black lettering, the rear cover has advertising for The Little Golden Library, the cover is separating from the spine, the front hinge is cracked, light edge-wear, light corner-wear. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The lovely color and black-and-white illustrations by Gertrude Elliott can be found at the turn of every page. The book measures 6.7″ wide x 8.0″ tall.
First Edition, “A” is present on the last page.
About the book: (from the book)
Introduction: It is fascinating for very young children to associate a word with its pictorial representation. In The Little Golden Book of Words, each small picture represents specific word. Full-page pictures in color are used to expand the ideas included in each group of words. For instance, a simple, labeled, detailed drawing of the family shows each individual member. On the opposite page the family is shown at the dinner table. In this picture the child will be able to name many objects in addition to the members of the family. Many other word groups — Things That Grow, Things That Go, Numbers, and so forth–are similarly treated. Children will enjoy finding pictures of familiar objects and activities.
The Little Golden Book of Words is intended to be used also by children who are just learning to read. They will soon begin to associate the written symbols with the pictures.
This book offers many opportunities for games in word recognition and spelling. If left to the spontaneous use of young children, it is likely to lead to a great variety of activities.
About the publishers:
The Little Golden Books were printed in September 1942 and for sale in stores in October. One and a half million books were sold in just five months. With an initial series of twelve titles each having a print run of 50,000 copies, the first Little Golden Books were priced at a very affordable 25 cents each. Little Golden Books started with publishing firm Simon & Schuster; Western Printing and Lithographing Company in Racine, Wisconsin was Simon & Schuster’s partner in the Little Golden Books venture, with Western handling print operations. Ownership and control of the series have changed several times since; today, Penguin Random House is its current publisher. (Wikipedia)
