1. No Title (the cover is missing
2. Book is about 100 pages +/-; Chapters are individual stories with a moral such as: Page 17, The Storm, Page 2, The Burglar; Page 71, The Letter to Mama, etc.; also includes black/white photography of animals, children, people, scenes with captions & guessing the “origin” such as “@ Topical” or H.A. Roberts titled “It’s Lots of Fun Helping Daddy” page 64; or Page 58 Gendreau “Feeding the Horse”;
3. There were at least 1 or 2 others books very similar to the above. Our mom would read a story at nap time or bedtime in the 1940s-1950s; The books we had were soft-back.
Hi – just to be sure I’m understanding correctly, do you have the book in hand with its missing cover? If so, a complete chapter listing with full author names would be helpful. Maybe we can find a table of contents somewhere to match up with.
I think this is very likely to be one of ‘Uncle Arthur’s” story or bedtime story books.
The author was Arthur Stanley Maxwell, and he wrote over a hundred books, which had the common theme of morality and/or the Bible.
H A Roberts is indeed occasionally listed as illustrator or photographer, in deep text searches.
However, I haven’t managed to narrow it down to a particular volume.
These might be helpful…
http://uncle-arthurs.com/browse_books.php
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/225055.Arthur_S_Maxwell