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Olive Beaupre Miller and the Book House for Children

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In March 1919, Olive Beaupre Miller and her husband Harry started a book publishing company to sell Olive's compilation of children's literature known as, "The Book House for Children." Using an all female sales staff, their employees went door to door selling subscriptions to the six volume set. Much in the way that encyclopedias were also sold. The series was an immediate success and was continually republished until the 1970's. If you were a middle class parent in the 1930's through 1950's, this was the set of books to purchase for your children. Millions of Americans grew up reading these well written tales of virtue and morality. Over the decades, Olive produced many other books that were to become classics of the genre.

Dorothy Loring Tayler is a collector of children's books and an enthusiast of the Book House for Children series. She contacted Olive Beaupre Miller's daughter Virginia for assistance in writing her mother's biography. The result is a bare bones biography of one of the Twentieth Century most important figures of children's literature. Olive Beaupre Miller was both an important writer and literary entrepeneur. Hopefully, a more scholarly biography will one day be written. If you want to know more about Olive Beaupre Miller, this is the book for you.