Glossy cover(?) w/ sawtooth edged circle logo on back. Langston Hughes “Thank you ma’am” (?) inside. Remember cool picture of Japanese climbing “cliff” built on skyscraper. “Queen Peavy” by Robert Burch may have been in. Story about kid solving swimming pool installation w melting blocks of ice
I don’t know which text book this was in, but the story about the swimming pool/blocks of ice is excerpted from Henry Reed’s Journey by Robert McCloskey pub. 1963.
That is good to know! McCloskey did the illustrations, apparently, but I guess the book was written by Keith Robertson. I can at least reread this story while I still search for this oddball textbook series.
Queenie Peavy is by Robert Burch.
The sawtooth circle on the back cover and the story about the ice melting to install the pool that is entitled “Henry Has an Idea” could be the Scott Foresman Book 6 textbook called Cavalcades. The cover is shades of orange and red and tan, and the primary author is Helen M. Robinson. It is on the Internet Archive under https://archive.org/details/cavalcades06robi/page/2/mode/1up