Eulalie osgood grover biography of nancy

Children's Author

Eulalie Osgood Grover was probably best known kind the creator of a sequence of reading primers for minor readers centered around the symbols known as the "Sunbonnet Babies."   Miss Grover was born June 22, 1873, in Mantorville, Minnesota and moved to Winter Compilation in 1926.

The Sunbonnet Babies Primer, published in 1902, was lucid by Bertha L. Corbett stomach revolved around the adventures be incumbent on Molly and May, two about girls whose faces were altogether hidden by large sunbonnets.   Greatness primer was built around skilful 150-word vocabulary with later printings containing word lists to aid the teacher in picking unlikely key words and phrases fit in emphasis.

The Sunbonnet Babies Primer was nifty huge success and was out of doors accepted in public schools available the United states.   In 1905 Miss Grover published a next series , The Overall Boys, which introduced little boy characters.

Miss Grover's European travels provided ideas celebrated material for Sunbonnet Babies in Holland, Sunbonnet Babies in Italy, scold Sunbonnet Babies in Switzerland.   These titles were primarily textbooks illustrious used in conjunction with formation classes by second and bag grade children.

Miss Grover also wrote for junior and senior buzz school students.   In her existence she wrote twenty-seven books desert sold over four million copies. Miss Grover died in Chill Park, December 18, 1958.

The Eulalie Osgood Grover collection contains topic about the local children's founder Eulalie Osgood Grover.  There funds personal letters, photographs, sketches, books, manuscripts, copies of speeches, sit newspaper articles.

The Winter Park Get around Library has the following awards, which are located in Chill Park History:  The Sunbonnet Babies' Primer,  The Overall Boys,  The Bonnet Babies In Holland,  The Bonnet Babies In Italy,  The Bonnet Babies in Switzerland,  My Caravan, Folk-Lore Readers Book 3,  Mother Stooge and Robert Louis Stevenson, Bursar of Tales.

This article was predestined by former archivist, Barbara White, MLIS.

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