World Treasury of Children's Literature

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The books that we remember best are the ones we knew in our childhood, when good stories were simply good stories. Now those favorite books can be found in Quality Paperback Book Club's exclusive edition of The World Treasury of Children's Literature, which contains the two complete volumes of the hardcover version in one beautiful book. Here are more than 140 stories, nurset rhymes, ancient myths, fairy tales, and poems, including such modern classics as Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon and Dr. Seuss's And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street.

The 250 illustrations—both original and specially commissioned art—will help to introduce children to a delightful collection of fascinating new friends and will evoke fond memories for older readers. Described as "head and shoulders above any other children's anthology" by the Washington Post Book World, The World Treasury of Children's Literature is a perfect book for children of all ages and an indispensable reference work.

Clifton Fadiman can remember to this day the wonder that he felt as a child when he opened a book and found "a surprise package stuffed with things I had no idea ever existed." Fadiman's lifelong love affair with books, which began at the age of four, is evident in this splendid anthology, which gives young children—and adults who can still summon up the child in themselves--a chance to explore the riches of books that will entertain, amuse, sadden, delight, mystify, and astonish.

International in scope, covering countless countries, and handsomely illustrated (often with the original art), the 140 selections in The World Treasury of Children's Literature represent the finest traditional and modern favorites. Book I has Mother Goose rhymes, as well as rhymes from Hungary, Denmark and China; ancient Norse and Greek myths; Aesop's fables; English fairy tales, including The Story of the Three Bears and Whittington and His Cat; and verse by Robert Louis Stevenson, Hilarie Belloc, and Dennis Lee. Book II includes selections from the Grimm brothers and Hans Christian Anderson, nonsense verse from Edward Lear as well as more modern favorites. And there are wonderful stories by: