My Book House
| Editor | Olive Beaupré Miller |
| Publisher | The Book House for Children |
| Copyright Holder | Olive Beaupré Miller, The Book House for Children |
| Publisher Series | My Book House |
| Based on an idea by | Johannes Brahms, Engelbert Humperdinck, Richard Wagner |
| Contributing Editor | Frances Jenkins Olcott |
| Translated by | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Lake Bluff, Illinois |
| Copyright | 1965 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | 65-23921 |
| Chapters | MY BOOK HOUSE 1: IN THE NURSERY MY BOOK HOUSE 2: STORY TIME MY BOOK HOUSE 3: UP ONE PAIR OF STAIRS MY BOOK HOUSE 4: THROUGH THE GATE Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, The ... Retold from a Classic Greek Poem Blacksmith, The ... A Story of the Song by Johannes Brahms Boy Hero of Harlem, The ... A Legend of Holland Boy Samuel, The ... Retold from the Bible Child in a Mexican Garden, A ... Grace H. Conkling Christening the Baby in Russia ... Arthur Ransome Cinderella ... Adapted from Perrault Cowboy's Life, The ... American Cowboy Song Doll I' the Grass ... A Norse Folk Tale Elsa and the Ten Elves ... A Swedish Fairy Tale Girl Who Used Her Wits, The ... A Chinese Folk Tale Hallowe'en ... Olive Beaupré Miller Hansel and Grethel ... Adapted from the Opera by Engelbert Humperdinck How Brer Rabbit Met Brer Tar-Baby Knight, The ... Paul Laurence Dunbar Little Diamond and the North Wind ... From At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald Little Toy Land of the Dutch, The ... Olive Beaupré Miller Milkweed, and a Buttercup, A ... Peter Newell Nutcracker and Sugardolly Stories, The ... Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Old Johnny Appleseed ... A Legend of the Middle West Old Stormalong ... A Yarn of American Sailors Pecos Bill, the Cowboy ... A Tall Tale of American Cowboys Peddler's Caravan, The ... William Brighty Rands Pert Fire Engine, The ... Gelett Burgess Plains' Call, The ... Arthur Chapman Planting of the Apple Tree, The ... William Cullen Bryant Pumpkin, The ... John Greenleaf Whittier Rarest Animal of All, The ... Hugh Lofting Selfish Giant, The ... Oscar Wilde Snow-White and Rose-Red ... Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm Song of the Canadian Lumberjack, A ... A Folk-Song Translated from the Canadian French Story of Big Paul Bunyan, The ... A Tale of America Lumber Camps Teeny-Tiny ... An English Folk Tale There Goes a Scout Tippity Witchit's Hallowe'en ... Olive Beaupré Miller Tragic Story, A ... Albert von Chamisso, Translated by William Makepeace Thackeray Twelve Dancing Princesses, The ... A German Folk Tale Who Can Crack Nuts? ... Mary Mapes Dodge MY BOOK HOUSE 5: OVER THE HILLS MY BOOK HOUSE 6: THROUGH THE FAIRY HALLS April ... John Galsworthy Aruman, a Hero of Java Assembling of the Fays, The ... Joseph Rodman Drake Boy Who Made His Own Materials, The ... A Story of Titian Boy's Song, A ... James Hogg Chylde Roland and the Goblin King ... An English Folk Tale Daniel in the Lions' Den ... From the Bible (The Book of Daniel) Daniel O'Rourke ... Adapted from the Story by T. Crofton Croker Duty That Was Not Paid, The (Wolfgang Mozart) ... Katherine Dunlap Cather Fairy Forests ... Alfred Noyes Fairyland of Science, The ... Story of Jean Henri Fabre Fisherman Who Caught the Sun, The ... A Hawaiian Legend Fountain, The ... James Russell Lovell Good Comrades of the Flying Ship, The ... A Russian Tale Hie Away, Hie Away ... Sir Walter Scott How Yehl, the Hero, Freed the Beaming Maiden ... An Alaskan Legend "It" ... James Whitcomb Riley Jack the Giant-Killer ... An English Folk Tale Judging by Appearances ... Emilie Poulsson Little Nell and Mrs. Jarley's Wax-Work ... Arranged from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens Little Pictures from Far Japan Little Shepherd's Song ... William Alexander Percy Lost Spear, The ... A South African Tale Luck Boy of Toy Valley, The ... Katherine Dunlap Cather Man Who Loved Hai Quai, The ... An Indian Tale of Mt. Tacoma Merman, The ... Alfred Tennyson Mice, The ... A Winnebago Fable Midsummer Night's Dream, A ... Told from the Play by William Shakespeare Mr. Moon ... Bliss Carman Moon-Maiden, The ... A Japanese Fairy Tale Musical Visit to Fairyland, A ... A Story of Felix Mendelssohn Off We'll Go ... Basho Pigling and Her Proud Sister ... William Elliot Griffis, A Korean Cinderella Tale Princess on the Glass Hill, The ... Sir George Webbe Dasent Providence ... Joseph Addison Sleeping Beauty, The Snow ... Ransetsu Snow Blossoms Song from "The Flower of Old Japan," A ... Alfred Noyes Squire's Bride, The ... Peter Christen Asbjörnsen Strong Boy, The ... A Canadian Tale Three Sillies, The ... Joseph Jacobs Three Wishes, The ... A Spanish Fairy Tale Tropical Morning at Sea, A ... Edward Rowland Sill Twelve Months, The ... A Czechoslovakian Fairy Tale Wild Flowers ... Peter Newell Willows in the Snow ... Tsuru Wise Men of Gotham, The Wonderland of an Artist's Workshop, The ... A Story of Leonardo da Vinci MY BOOK HOUSE 7: THE MAGIC GARDEN Acorn and the Pumpkin, The ... La Fontaine Babe Ruth, The Home-Run King of Baseball Bells, The ... Edgar Allan Poe Casey at the Bat ... Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey's Comeback ... James Wilson Cataract of Lodore, The ... Robert Southey Cloud, The ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Columbine and Her Playfellows of the Italian Pantomime David Copperfield and Little Em'ly ... Arranged from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens David, the Shepherd Boy ... Arranged from the Bible East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon ... A Norse Folk Tale Gigi and the Magic Ring ... Ann Macdonell, An Italian Fairy Tale Golden Bird, The ... A German Fairy Tale Golden Touch, The ... Nathaniel Hawthorne Knights of the Silver Shield, The ... Raymond MacDonald Alden Little-Man-As-Big-As-Your-Thumb-With-Mustaches-Seven-Miles-Long, The ... A Russian Legend Maiden, the Knight, and the Waterfall, The ... A Roumanian Fairy Tale Miska and the Man-With-The-Iron-Head ... A Hungarian Fairy Tale New Heros Peddler's Song, The ... William Shakespeare Phaeton ... A Greek Myth Prince Who Rode Through a Mousehole, The ... A Czech Folk Tale Raggle, Taggle Gypsies, The ... Old Folk Song Renowned and World-Famous Adventures of Punch and Judy, The Rhodopis and Her Gilded Sandals ... A Folk Tale of Ancient Egypt, The First Cinderella Story Six Swans, The ... A German Fairy Tale) Sky at Night, The ... From the Bible Snow-Queen, The ... Hans Christian Andersen Song on May Morning ... John Milton Trial by Fire, The ... A Maori Folk Tale from New Zealand Vladimir's Adventures in Search of Fortune ... A Yugoslavian Tale from Serbia Winter's Tale, The ... Charles and Mary Lamb, From Tales From Shakespeare Youth Who Wanted Some Fun, The ... A Welsh Fairy Tale MY BOOK HOUSE 8: FLYING SAILS Adventures of General Tom Thumb, The ... A True Story by Phineas T. Barnum Afar in the Desert ... Thomas Pringle Boy on the High Seas, A ... Olive Beaupré Miller Christmas Song at Sea, A ... Alfred Noyes Circus Man, The ... Phineas T. Barnum Enchanted Island, The ... Howard Pyle Greatest Show on Earth, The ... Olive Beaupré Miller Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput ... Jonathan Swift John Paul Jones, the First American Naval Hero Maggie Tulliver Goes to Live with the Gypsies ... George Eliot Magic Horse, The ... The Arabian Nights Meg Merrilies ... John Keats Mr. Hampden's Shipwreck ... John Masefield Recollections of the Arabian Nights ... Alfred Tennyson Sea Fever ... John Masefield Song of Drake's Men, A ... Alfred Noyes Story of the Talking Bird, The ... The Arabian Nights Tempest, The ... Told from the Play by William Shakespeare Wanderer's Song, A ... John Masefield Whaling Adventure, A Young Midshipman David Farragut MY BOOK HOUSE 9: THE TREASURE CHEST MY BOOK HOUSE 10: FROM THE TOWER WINDOW As You Like It ... Told from the Play by William Shakespeare Bannockburn ... Robert Burns, Robert Bruce's Address to His Army Cavalier Tune, A ... Robert Browning Children's Crusade, The Chronicle of Kiev, A Cuculain, the Irish Hound ... Retold from Tales of the Ancient Gaelic Bards Evening at the Farm ... John Townsend Trowbridge Exile of Rama, The ... Retold from The Ramayana, the Sacred Poem of India Frithjof, The Viking ... Retold from the Norse Saga of Frithjof Gathering Song of Donuil Dhu ... Sir Walter Scott Home-Coming of Odysseus, The ... Retold from The Greek Epic, The Odyssey of Homer How Beowulf Delivered Heorot ... Retold from the Old English Epic, Beowulf Joan of Arc Joseph and His Brethren ... The Bible Kalevala, the Land of Heroes ... Retold from Kalevala, the National Epic of Finland Legend of William Tell, The Lohengrin ... Retold from the Opera by Richard Wagner Opportunity ... Edward Rowland Sill Perfect Knight, A ... Geoffrey Chaucer Richard Feverel and the Hay-Rick ... George Meredith Robert Bruce, Scotland's Hero Sir Beaumains, the Kitchen Knight ... A Legend of the Round Table Song of Roland, The ... A French Epic, retold from the Chanson de Roland Story of Rustem, the Hero of Persia, A ... retold from The Shah-Nameh (Book of Kings) by Firdusi Story of the Cid, The ... A Spanish Epic, retold from the ancient Poem of the Cid Wanderings of Aeneas, The ... An Epic of the Romans, retold from the Latin of Virgil Word of Igor's Armament, The ... Retold from an old Russian Epic of the 12th Century MY BOOK HOUSE 11: IN SHINING ARMOR Bugle Song, The ... Alfred Tennyson Dante's Voyage to the Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise ... Retold from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Man Who Lived in the World of Dreams, The ... The Story of Dante Marko, the Champion of Serbian Liberty ... A Tale of the 14th Century from Ballads of the Yugoslavs Melting Pot, The ... Israel Zangwill, Retold from the Play New Colossus, The ... Emma Lazarus Robert E. Lee, a Hero in War and in Peace Surprising Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha, The ... Miguel de Cervantes, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott Tale of the Rhine Gold, The ... A Germanic Epic retold from the operas of Richard Wagner Una and the Red Cross Knight ... Edmund Spenser, Retold from Book I of The Faerie Queens Under the Greenwood Tree ... William Shakespeare Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams ... Washington Irving, A Tale of Old New York Ye Merry Doinges of Robin Hood ... From Old Ballads Your America ... Woodrow Wilson, An Address to New-Made Citizens MY BOOK HOUSE 12: HALLS OF FAME |
| Notes | 12-book rainbow set Printed in U.S.A. [This set is incomplete. Only volumes 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 have been entered.] |
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