THE PETER PATTER BOOK: RIMES FOR CHILDREN

4to. (31 cm.) unpaged [112p.]. Profusely (!!) illustrated with full color drawings including 22 full-page images! decorative endpapers and full color pastedown to front cover by Milo Winter. Olive green cloth with gilt letters on the spine. Just touches of wear to extremities, cloth clean, spine gilt dulled, front cover pastedown has just a couple of tine rubbed spots, gift inscription on front pastedown [Christmas, 1924 | To Jack from \ Mr. and Mrs. Andrews], all internal drawings in fine condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Date is an approximation as the last book listed on the page before the frontispiece headed Classics New and Old For Children is THE AESOP FOR CHILDREN (1919) and the gift inscription is dated 1924. Just a delightful book of rhymes stunningly illustrated by Wright and Winter. Professor Leroy Freeman Jackson (1881-1958), was born in London, Ontario, Canada, and moved with his family to North Dakota in the early 1890s. Jackson received his bachelors degree in 1902 and his masters degree from the University of Chicago in 1909. Iin 1912 he went to Harvard for a year to conduct research under Frederick Jackson Turner. After several years of holding teaching positions throughout North Dakota and Minnesota, Jackson began teaching at the State College of Washington in Pullman, where he ultimately became acting Head of the Social Science Division. His teaching career was put on hold during World War I, when in 1917, Jackson went overseas to serve as first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He later served with the Army Educational Corps as the conductor of the Citizenship Institutes. In 1921 he moved to Burnsville, North Carolina, to become director of the Stanley McCormick School (which later became the Carolina New College), an experimental progressive education school funded by Nettie Fowler McCormick. When the school closed down in 1928, Jackson became Dean of the College of the City of Asheville in North Carolina. Jackson went to work for the United States Indian Service in 1932 and would spend the next four years working with Native American students. The Indian Service first sent him to Alaska to be the director of the newly established Wrangell Institute, which included students from the Tlingit and Yakama tribes. In 1934, Jackson was sent to Fort Wingate, New Mexico to work with the Navajo as director of the Charles H. Burke School. In 1935 he was transferred to the Taos Day School. In 1936 Jackson retired from teaching and moved to Olympia, Washington where he worked for the State Department of Social Security. Jackson was the author of several published articles, monographs, and children's books of nursery rhymes, including The Peter Patter Book (1918) and Jolly Jinks Song Book (1922). He died in Pomona, California, in 1958. [from the finding aid to Jackson's papers in the Online Archive of California] Blanche Fisher Wright Laite (1887 – 1971) was an American children's book illustrator, best known for illustrating The Real Mother Goose (1916, Rand McNally). Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was an American book illustrator, who created editions of Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913), and others.…