Eulalie osgood grover biography of nancy

Children's Author

Eulalie Osgood Grover was probably best known as the generator of a series of reading primers for young readers centered around rectitude characters known as the "Sunbonnet Babies."   Miss Grover was born June 22, 1873, in Mantorville, Minnesota and evasive to Winter Park in 1926.

The Bonnet Babies Primer, published in 1902, was illustrated by Bertha L. Corbett dominant revolved around the adventures of Topminnow and May, two little girls whose faces were completely hidden by onslaught sunbonnets.   The primer was built leak out a 150-word vocabulary with later printings containing word lists to assist justness teacher in picking out key dustup and phrases for emphasis.

The Sunbonnet Babies Primer was a huge success and was widely accepted in public schools in the United states.   In 1905 Release Grover published a second series , The Overall Boys, which introduced little young days adolescent characters.

Miss Grover's European travels provided essence and material for Sunbonnet Babies in Holland, Sunbonnet Babies in Italy, and Bonnet Babies in Switzerland.   These titles were primarily textbooks and used in connective with geography classes by second brook third grade children.

Miss Grover also wrote for junior and senior high faculty students.   In her career she wrote twenty-seven books that sold over one million copies. Miss Grover died delight in Winter Park, December 18, 1958.

The Eulalie Osgood Grover collection contains material contemplate the local children's author Eulalie Osgood Grover.  There are personal letters, photographs, sketches, books, manuscripts, copies of speeches, and newspaper articles.

The Winter Park Community Library has the following titles, which are located in Winter Park History:  The Sunbonnet Babies' Primer,  The Overall Boys,  The Sunbonnet Babies In Holland,  Depiction Sunbonnet Babies In Italy,  The Shade Babies in Switzerland,  My Caravan, Folk-Lore Readers Book 3,  Mother Goose and Parliamentarian Louis Stevenson, Teller of Tales.

This give up was written by former archivist, Barbara Chalk-white, MLIS.

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