This textbook is an illustrated reader with selections on Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America. It is intended to supplement ordinary school reading books, as well as reinforce instruction in other subjects with useful information and choice selections from the best literature. Teachers and parents are advised to insist upon having the children read with a large wall map or an atlas constantly before them. The pictures of life and places, which are formed, will then be connected with the countries where the life really exists. [Edited by Larkin Dunton. Cover title varies: "The World and Its People: A Series of Geographical Reading Books. Book IV: Our American Neighbors. The Young Folks Library. Volume No. 8."]