Eulalie osgood grover biography sample

Children's Author

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

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

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

Miss Grover's European travels provided significance and material for Sunbonnet Babies in Holland, Sunbonnet Babies in Italy, and Shade Babies in Switzerland.   These titles were primarily textbooks and used in mixture with geography classes by second with the addition of third grade children.

Miss Grover also wrote for junior and senior high secondary students.   In her career she wrote twenty-seven books that sold over combine million copies. Miss Grover died add on Winter Park, December 18, 1958.

The Eulalie Osgood Grover collection contains material lead to 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 Indicator Library has the following titles, which are located in Winter Park History:  The Sunbonnet Babies' Primer,  The Overall Boys,  The Sunbonnet Babies In Holland,  Rectitude Sunbonnet Babies In Italy,  The Bonnet Babies in Switzerland,  My Caravan, Folk-Lore Readers Book 3,  Mother Goose and Parliamentarian Louis Stevenson, Teller of Tales.

This thing was written by former archivist, Barbara Snowy, MLIS.

Want to more from this collection? Click the leaf below!