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Ida Coe
An early 20th-century educator from New York City, this writer helped shape reading lessons for children through warm, story-centered schoolbooks. Her best-known work, the "Story Hour Readers" series, was created to make first reading feel lively and inviting.
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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. Sources available here identify her as an assistant principal in the public schools of New York City, and her published books present her as a teacher deeply involved in early childhood reading instruction.
She is best known for co-authoring the Story Hour Readers books and manuals with Alice Christie Dillon. These classroom readers and teaching guides were designed for young students and used stories as a way to build reading skills, reflecting a practical, child-friendly approach to education.
Although detailed biographical information is scarce, her work has remained accessible through public-domain and library collections, which suggests a lasting place in the history of American elementary education. Today, she is remembered less for a public literary career than for creating books that helped generations of children learn to read.