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Ida Coe
Best known for helping shape the early-20th-century "Story Hour Readers" books, this American educator wrote for young children with an eye toward lively stories and classroom learning. Her work survives mainly through school readers that blend folklore, fables, and literary retellings.
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Story Hour Readers — Book Three
by Ida Coe, Alice Christie Dillon
Story Hour Readers — Book Three
by Ida Coe, Alice Christie Dillon
About the author
Ida Coe was an American educator active in the early 1900s. LibriVox identifies her as an assistant principal in New York City public schools and dates her activity to around 1913.
She is best known as the coauthor, with Alice Christie Dillon, of the Story Hour Readers series and related teaching materials. Surviving editions from 1913 and 1914 show the books were published for classroom use, and Story Hour Readers — Book Three remains the title most widely available today through public-domain libraries.
Because biographical records for her are sparse, much of what can be confirmed comes from the books themselves and library catalogs rather than detailed personal histories. Even so, her work offers a clear picture of a teacher-writer focused on making reading engaging for children through short tales, folklore, and carefully graded lessons.