McGuffey´s Eclectic Readers: Second Reader , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 135min

Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could commit to mind entire books of the Bible. After becoming a teacher at the age of 14, classroom size was just one of several challenges faced by McGuffey. In many one-teacher schools, students’ ages varied from six to 21, and few textbooks existed. In 1835, a publishing firm asked McGuffey to create a series of graded Readers for primary level students. The series consisted of stories, poems, essays and speeches and it is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey´s Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person´s name has come close to that mark. McGuffey’s 2nd Reader is appropriate for a variety of ages/reading levels, but most closely approximate 2nd to 3rd grades. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Field. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000606/bk_hove_000606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.... Mehr