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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. The Fair dust jacket is very worn with chipping, tears and rub wear on all edges. The Very Good binding is gray-green cloth over boards with ACC & 1825 in circle on lower right corner, black lettering on spine. Some age discoloration to board edges, slight bumping to corners. Gift inscription on inside front cover, black-and-white frontispiece. Black-and-white illustrations by Mary Sherwood Wright Jones. The binding is tight and pages are clean with exception of small water stain on at top edge of pages up to page 230 does not affect text. The book measures 8.3" tall x 5.6" wide. About the book (from the dust jacket) While Mr. Hillyer was preparing this book to succeed his enormously popular "À Child's History of the World," he "tried it out on several classes of boys and girls at the Calvert School, One of his young pupils came up at the end of the course and said to him, "I wish there were a hundred more countries in the world that you could tell us about!" That is the feeling one has after reading A CHILD's GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD. Mr. Hillyer, who has visited and traveled in most of the countries on the globe, brings to these pages the ever-changing fascination of the world's lands and peoples. He shows the child reader what is beyond the horizon "from Kalamazoo to Timbuktu.'' He shows him not only the Seven Wonders but the seventy times Seven Wonders of the World. He lays a foundation of interest and knowledge that will make the child eager to travel, and able to travel with inkling of what there is to see in the some world, when he grows up. About the author (from the dust jacket) V. M. Hillyer was born in 1875 at Weymouth. Massachusetts. His boyhood was spent on "Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C., `where he lived until he went back to New England to college. He graduated from Harvard in the Class of 1897. Subsequently, he became Headmaster of the Calvert School in Baltimore, from which he taught thousands of pupils by correspondence not only in the United States but in twenty-two foreign countries. Outside of this work, Mr. Hillyer's greatest interest was traveling. In mileage, he has been the equivalent of five times around the world. Jones, Mary Sherwood Wright (illustratore).…

Condizione: Very Good+. 21 cm x 14 cm- Attractive red cloth-. Binding is tight and unmarked.-Copyright 1951." 1924. With many illustrations by Carle Michel Book and M.S. Wright. A Child's History of the World is a classic. Written shortly after World War I by Calvert School's first Head Master, Virgil Hillyer, this history storybook combines charm with facts to stimulate young minds and leave them yearning for more information. This volume of A Child's History of the World contains 84 stories that start at the beginning of time and reach to the present.". …

Condizione: Very Good+. 21 cm x 14 cm- Attractive red cloth-. Binding is tight and unmarked.-Copyright 1951." 5.0 out of 5 stars A Story Which Endures Through The Decades Continues Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2008 Years ago I recalled a friend of mine who was in her early 80s telling me about this particular book. Her parents had read it to her as a child as a follow-up to "A Child's History of the World." She thought it was the most fascinating story she had ever heard. Now that I am a homeschooling parent I have to agree with my friend. The book was written in 1929 by the headmaster of Calvert School, V.M. Hillyer. It has only been updated once in 1951. The author takes you on a railway trip around the world. Throughout the book are illustrations which in my opinion are works of art that add to the story. I am currently reading this book to my 8-year-old child and she loves it! After we have completed this volume we will begin utilizing Calvert's "A Child's Study of Famous Americans, and V.M. Hillyer's "A Child's History of Art" series. As a side note I would encourage parents and teachers who enjoy this volume to contact the Calvert School in Hunt Valley, Maryland to encourage them to reprint this lost classic for future generations to enjoy." - Kathy " Yes, some geography details have changed since the book was written, but a lot of them haven't. And children should know that the world is constantly changing. This is not the last edition of the ever so changing "National Geographic Map of the World", but this book is a very good starting point for learning geography. I read this book to my 9-year-old son, and we both enjoy it. He checks the map, reads over my shoulder, and retells the things he learned from this book to other people; and the word "geography" is not some dull and dusty word for him, it sounds like "an adventure". I have to tell him about some changes, but this makes it even more interesting to him. I got "Children's History of the World" and "Children's History of the Art" by the same author. He was a teacher, and he knew how to teach and how to write for children."-Natalia.…