schoolbook

plural schoolbooks · alternative school book

1. A book used, or prepared for use, in schools; especially, a textbook.

   She opened her mouth to call her father, but in that instant, a sack was thrown over her head and a hand clamped over her mouth. Her schoolbooks and her bandalore fell with a series of thuds to the floor.

   2020, J. K. Rowling, The Ickabog, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 118

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   [Editor David W. Blight said:] In 1795, after producing his own geography textbook, modeled on Jedidiah Morse’s famous Geography (1784), Bingham resigned as a teacher in the Boston schools, opened a bookstore on Cornhill Street in Boston, and devoted himself to producing schoolbooks. In Boston in 1797, he published the first of approximately 23 editions of The Columbian Orator. By the first two decades of the nineteenth century, in vast stretches of rural America, including the South, Bingham’s readers joined the Bible and an occasional almanac as the only books in many homesteads. […] Finally, Bingham saw the early American republic as a new political beginning for humankind, and his more than one million schoolbooks sold across the land were designed to produce republican citizens. The Columbian Orator was an elocution manual as well as a reader for school children in the new republic.

   1997 [1797], David W. Blight, “Editor's Introduction: The Peculiar Dialogue Between Caleb Bingham and Frederick Douglass”, in Caleb Bingham, edited by David W. Blight, The Columbian Orator, Bicentennial Edition (1997 republishing), New York University Press, →ISBN

   You studied the wrong lesson. Why, there is gum all over your book. How did this happen? JD, I am a little surprised at the condition of your schoolbook. You will have to stay in during recess and 74 The Adventures of JD Losey.[…]

   2005 May 28, Skeet Keaton, The Adventures of Jd Losey, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 74