My Year of the Book - Day 85: It’s “Back to School Monday,” featuring another “retired” series of California State textbooks, but with a special “Seussical” bonus! The Treasury of Literature “Readtext” series began as a 4-book (Grades 3-6) set in 1954, and it was adopted for use by the State of California in 1960. Eventually, readers for 1st and 2nd grades were added, bringing the total to six. The strength of this series was in the content, as it featured excerpts from dozens of well-known works from popular children’s authors such as Felix Saltin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lewis Carroll, E.B. White, Robert McCloskey, Hugh Lofting, Johanna Spyri and Kenneth Grahame, among many others. I don’t have any teachers editions from his set, so I can’t compare those to the Ginns (Day 64) or Prose & Poetry (Day 78) series’, but one thing the Readtext series has going for it (at least from a collectible angle) is the first appearance in book form of the little-known Dr. Seuss “story,” “Marco Comes Late.” The 6-page piece, which features Seuss’ protagonist from “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” originally appeared in Redbook magazine in the early 1950s. It was eventually collected in “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and Other Lost Tales,” published in 2014. But if you owned a copy of “Treat Shop” like me, you’d already have it. :) #drseuss #bookish #booknut #bookworm #booksofinstagram #yearofthebook #booklover #book #bookstagram #childrensbooks #mylibrary #reading #textbook #bookgeek #bookcollecter #drseussweek #collection #mybookshelf #favoriteauthor