Grover, Eulalie Osgood, 1873-1958

Eulalie Osgood Grover was born on June 22, 1873 in Mantorville, Minnesota. She authored the "Sunbonnet Babies" series, starting with The Sunbonnet Babies' Primer, which was published in 1902. The books were based around a 150-word vocabulary and included songs which were used in schools throughout the United States. Her illustrator for the Sunbonnet series, Bertha L. Corbett, later Bertha Melcher, studied in Philadelphia under Howard Pyle. In 1905, Grover wrote a second series, The Overall Boys. She published twenty-seven books, including Sunbonnet Babies in Holland (1915) and The Overall Boys in Switzerland (1916), drawing from her travels in Europe. These books were used by second and third grade students as geography textbooks. Starting in 1904 she wrote the first three volumes in The Art-Literature Reader series published by Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover. She also edited a book of nursery rhymes, Mother Goose: The Original Volland Edition (1915). She died in Winter Park, Florida on December 18, 1958.

From the description of Eulalie Osgood Grover papers, 1900-1954. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 774383181

Eulalie Osgood Grover was born on June 22, 1873 in Mantorville, Minnesota. She authored the “Sunbonnet Babies” series, starting with The Sunbonnet Babies’ Primer, which was published in 1902. The books were based around a 150-word vocabulary and included songs which were used in schools throughout the United States. Her illustrator for the Sunbonnet series, Bertha L. Corbett, later Bertha Corbett Melcher, studied in Philadelphia under Howard Pyle. In 1905, Grover wrote a second series, The Overall Boys . She published twenty-seven books, including Sunbonnet Babies in Holland (1915) and The Overall Boys in Switzerland (1916), drawing from her travels in Europe. These books were used by second and third grade students as geography textbooks. Starting in 1904, she wrote the first three volumes in The Art-Literature Reader series published by Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover. She also edited a book of nursery rhymes, Mother Goose: The Original Volland Edition (1915). She died in Winter Park, Florida on December 18, 1958.

Bibliography

“Eulalie Osgood Grover” Winter Park Public Library accessed on December 30, 2011, http://www.wppl.org/wphistory/EulalieGrover/index.html.

From the guide to the Eulalie Osgood Grover papers, 1900-1954, (Free Library of Philadelphia: Children's Literature Research Collection)