Merry-Go-Round

by Leland B. Jacobs, Jo Jasper Turner

1986 edition printed in 1993, A Beka Book

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

1907-

Leland Blair Jacobs was an American professor emeritus of education who was known particularly for his work in the teaching of literature. He taught elementary, junior high and high school in rural Michigan, and was an elementary school principal. He also taught at OSU in Columbus, Ohio and trained numerous future teachers of literature in Leonia, New Jersey before he was hired by Teachers College, Columbia University in 1952, from which he retired with the rank of Professor Emeritus. During 22 years on the faculty, Dr. Jacobs developed literature as a major part of early education. He encouraged pupils to read literature for their own development.

Reviews

[Siskiyou-Suzy · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a lovely little collection of stories and poems just perfect for the 2 - 4 age range. It's sometimes hard to find stories that work for little ones. Picture books tend to be either too complicated or overly simple (toddler books -- naming things or a single sentence a page). There actually is a lack of good 3-year-old and 4-year-old books -- books that tell actual, followable stories without losing the young ones with inferences or complicated (trying to be poetic, or clever, say) language. This is a whole collection of stories that work for that age group! Happy to have found it.

(My used copy has stamped in it: Kodiak On Base School.)