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Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin , who after a long career in education, went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others.
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Born in 1841 in a small Quaker settlement in the backwoods of Indiana, James Baldwin rose to become a highly-respected author and textbook editor. Largely self-educated, Baldwin became a teacher at 24, then served as superintendent of the graded schools of Indiana for 18 years before moving into the publishing world. As an editor of school books, first with Harper and Brothers and later with the American Book Company, he selected the best of our literary heritage and cast it into a form that delighted children of all ages. His influence in the first decades of the twentieth century was broad because of all the grammar school books in use in the United States at that time over half had been written or edited by him. He is remembered most for the books of introductory historical sketches he wrote for younger students and his retelling of the legends of the heroes for older students.
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- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1440442266
- ISBN 13 9781440442261
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages102
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