John C. Winston, Toronto, 1959.  Hard cover, 320 pages including To The Teacher and Acknowledgments.  Good; some edge and cover wear, corners and spine ends bumped with some wear, some marks on boards. Some soil/age spotting on outer page block; binding cracked at pp. 318/319 (word list) with all pages secure.  School Board stamp on FEP; corner and part of fore-edge loss on p. 181/182, very occasional stray mark/smudge/soil/age spotting on pages.  Illustrated in colour and black & white by Aileen Tyrrell Richardson.  ‘The purpose of The Canadian Basic Readers is to enable the child to gain independence in reading.’  ‘… the fourth of the Canadian Basic Readers … and is at the second year level.  It introduces 279 new words.’ (from copyright page and To The Teacher)