Comments on: The Whole Year Through: Bookcraft, 1954

By: lindberg

lindberg — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:23:45 +0000

Amazing how many of these I recognize from my Dad’s bookshelf!

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:09:32 +0000

Yeah, I have some of those books. I’m not telling which though . . . .

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:30:48 +0000

Quite a few of these are still on my mother’s shelf. I remember reading For Time or Eternity in my early teens?

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:01:14 +0000

Hey, I remember these. I grew up reading Emma Mar Petersen’s retelling of the scriptures for children (see The Story of Our Church), with the two-color woodcut illustrations. I didn’t read the actual scriptures until my late teens ( after the new scriptures came out and it became de rigeur to have and bring one’s own and actually read them) so those stories formed the essential basis for my understanding of the gospel for years. Clearly Bookcraft (and the related Seventy’s Quorum book sales in the cultural hall) was an important part of creating Mormon Culture pre-correlation.