Elementary Primers

Have you all heard of "Dick and Jane" readers or primers? I learned on them, and always thought they were wonderful story books to read to my children, even after they were not using them in the schools anymore. I still had mine from when I was little, and picked some up here and there from library sales along the way. Of course not all of them were about Dick and Jane.There was Ted & Sally, Jim &Judy, etc. But I think probably my favorites are the Grimm series with Tom and Betty. I thought they started with "My Little Red Story Book", "....Little Green...", "....Little Blue.." etc, then went on up to the Little White House and on.

Until one day I found this one for fifty cents at a library sale. It is in totally awesome condition, copyright 1923 (the year my mother was born so that is kinda special to me), and guess who is in there?
Yep! Tom & Betty. The illustrations are by Mabel Betsy Hill. The book was published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. I will have to read up on this a little more to see when it became Grimm. Unless someone out there knows and can enlighten me. :)
Some of you will definitely think these pictures are near creepiness... especially the talking bank. I only included the pictures with snippets of the text. But the whole story is very wonderful. If you want to read it, you can find it at the end, in my Flickr set called "books".