Author: Bertha Morris Parker

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Bertha Morris Parker

Bertha Morris Parker (1890–1980) was an American educator, science writer and children's author. After earning a science degree at the University of Chicago in 1914, she taught science at its Laboratory Schools for many years and was a research associate at the Chicago Natural History Museum. From 1941 she wrote more than eighty books, first on social science and then on natural science, some of them translated into Japanese, Korean, Greek, Italian and French. She is best known as principal author of the sixteen-volume Golden Book Encyclopedia (1959–1969), of which Book 10 is listed here.

Parker died in October 1980.

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The Golden Book Encyclopedia Book 10 – Mathematics to Natural Gas

by Bertha Morris Parker 30/03/2026 0

Volume 10 (Mathematics to Natural Gas) of the illustrated Golden Book Encyclopedia by Bertha Morris Parker. Vintage hardcover.... Read more.