We grew up with very little but I don't think for the most part we knew how little materially we had. But we did have parents that loved us and gave us what they had the most... lots of love. Our family library wasn't that big. We each had our own library card and Mom made sure we had books to read. The few books in our family collection were probably hand me downs from other families or relatives. Mom read to us and we had many of those books memorized. One of those books was a 1920 edition of The New Winston Readers, The Primer by Firman and Maltby. I think, maybe, that it was given to us by "Uncle Sam" Beers who was the husband of Amy Brooksby, my Grandfather Booksby's sister. Uncle Sam is a story all in itself. If anyone knows where the book came from, please let me know. I loved those stories in this book and especially the illustrations by Frederick Richardson. When we cleaned out Mom and Dad's house, after we moved them to Utah, I put this book in my boxes of fond memories. When I later looked at the book I realized that it was in much worse shape than I remembered. Others had loved the book too. That is when I began to look for a replacement. I located a 1928 Edition of The New Winston Primer on eBay and bought it as it seemed to have the same stories and illustrations. I was pleased to find this new copy was in much better condition than our family copy. I decided that I wanted to preserve and share this new copy with my family and any others that might also be searching for good memories. The books are very similar but have some differences that I will explain later. Enjoy... (I found that the best way to read these books is to double click on the first picture and it will come up full sized and then using the arrow right key you can scroll through the pages. Be sure and look at my list of my blog archives on the right of this screen to read the 1920 edition changes.)