Stories and Sketches: What People Are Doing

"The Double Book Binding. Patented in the United States April 3, 1923. Patented in great Britain 1923, No. 213,767."

Oblong 8vo, (32)pp printed pages staplebound on the usual left side, and 32 leaves of tracing paper staple-bound to a flap on the right side.  Tinted Japanese paper reinforcing the spine, else VG+. Unused. 3 in OCLC (Columbia Teacher's College, Nat'l Lib. Education, Clark U).

The thoughtfulness of the book's design is evident in the directions printed inside the front wrap, explaining how the book can be used to teach geography, language arts, manual skills, and provide the teacher "an opportunity for the study of the mental ability of the child and the working of his mind." Each lesson has a paragraph with blanks for the child to fill in orally, written on the page, or spelled out with tiles in the classroom. The novel binding allows individual leaves of tracing paper to lay on top of the outline images in the text for the child to trace while keeping them bound together as a record of the student's work. Enough paper is provided to make 2 tracings of each image, which can also be colored in.

A progressive era educational book that ties in the student's environment and explains the processes behind common objects like textiles and shoes. The "Stories and Sketches" series also included Children of Other Lands and Stories of Our Earth.