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The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Books 1 & 2

by Clifton Fadiman

Other authors: Leslie H. Morrill (Illustrator)

Series: World Treasury of Children's Literature (1 and 2)

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A three-volume anthology of classical and contemporary children's stories, poems, myths, and legends from many countries.
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The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Book 1 by Clifton Fadiman
The World Treasury of Children's Literature: Book 2 by Clifton Fadiman
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (indirect)
Johnny Crow's Garden by L. Leslie Brooke (indirect)
Play with Me by Marie Hall Ets (indirect)
Goops and How to Be Them by Gelett Burgess (indirect)
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Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (indirect)
General Store by Rachel Field (indirect)
Little Toot on the Grand Canal by Hardie Gramatky (indirect)
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee (indirect)
The Husband Who Was to Mind the House by Abe Gurvin (indirect)
A Hole is to Dig by Ruth Krauss (indirect)
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore (indirect)
The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff (indirect)
Issun Boshi, the Inchling: An Old Tale of Japan by Momoko Ishii (indirect)
Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats (indirect)
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper (indirect)
The Talking Cat and Other Stories of French Canada by Natalie Savage Carlson (indirect)
Curious George by H. A. Rey (indirect)
The Funny Thing by Wanda Gág (indirect)
The Puffin Book of Improbable Records (Young Puffin Books) by Quentin Blake (indirect)
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf (indirect)
Pelle's New Suit by Elsa Beskow (indirect)
Frederick by Leo Lionni (indirect)
A Kiss for Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik (indirect)
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (indirect)
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (indirect)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (indirect)
The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer (indirect)
Jonathan Bing by Beatrice Curtis Brown (indirect)
The Bear On The Motorcycle by Reiner Zimnik (indirect)
Whittington and His Cat (p. 278) by English Fairy Tale (indirect)
Mr. Miacca (p. 275) by English Fairy Tale (indirect)
The Story of the Three Little Pigs (p. 271) by English Fairy Tale (indirect)
The Story of the Three Bears (p. 266) by English Fairy Tale (indirect)
Thor & Loki: In the Land of Giants by Jeff Limke (indirect)
Greek Myths: King Midas, Theseus, The Golden Fleece (p. 63) by Unknown (indirect)
Bed in Summer (Poetry for Children) by Robert Louis Stevenson (indirect)
The Fox and the Crane (A Russian Fable) (p. 48) by Alexander Afanasyev (indirect)
The Fox and the Grapes by Aesop (indirect)
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by T.R. Garcia (indirect)
Androcles and the Lion: An Aesop Fable by Janet Stevens (indirect)
The Lion and the Mouse (Troll's Best-Loved Classics) by Aesop (indirect)
It's Raining Said John Twaining: Danish Nursery Rhymes (Aladdin Books) by N. M. Bodecker (indirect)
* The House in Sunflower Street by Günter Spang (indirect)
Amos & Boris by William Steig (indirect)
As I Was Crossing Boston Common by Norma Farber (indirect)
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (indirect)
The Pobble Who Has No Toes by Edward Lear (indirect)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (indirect)
The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren (indirect)
Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord (indirect)
The Shepherd Boy (Short Story) by Jacob Grimm (indirect)
Sleeping Beauty by Jacob Grimm (indirect)
Rumpelstiltskin [Retold by Paul O. Zelinsky] by Paul O. Zelinsky (indirect)
Rapunzel [Retold by Paul O. Zelinsky] by Paul O. Zelinsky (indirect)
Little Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm (indirect)
Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne (indirect)
A Near Thing for Captain Najork by Russell Hoban (indirect)
How the Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes (indirect)
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (indirect)
Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car by John Burningham (indirect)
The Happy Lion by Louise Fatio (indirect)
The Story about Ping by Marjorie Flack (indirect)
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss (indirect)
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak (indirect)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (indirect)
The Boy and the Whale by José María Sánchez Silva (indirect)
Eeyore Has a Birthday by A. A. Milne (indirect)
The Stupids Step Out by Harry G. Allard (indirect)
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To Jono, Anne, and Kim
as they were when they were small
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[Let's Talk] One of my favorite books is E. Nesbit's "The Treasure Seekers."
There are millions of books in the world and no one will ever read them all.
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808.8Literature › By Topic › Rhetoric and anthologies › Anthologies & Collections

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PZ5.W832Language and Literature › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Juvenile belles lettres

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