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These are the kind of stories we all remember reading on gray afternoons, wearing sweatpants and sprawled on the floor, after having complained to Mom several bajillion times that we were bored. To which she invariably replied, "Go read a book. I'm busy." Why we always went to the old anthologies, typically from the 1950s and with covers as cracked and gray as the weather outside, was a mystery, because they never seemed appealing.

Until we started reading the stories inside. It was better than TV—tales of reckless Greek heroes, real-life Arctic explorers, animals who could talk and wear clothes (this never bothered us until we got older), foreign lands, horse races, etc., etc., etc. Okay, so maybe the pictures were a little hokey, and maybe all the facts weren't perfectly accurate, but these were good stories.

Keeping such vessels of imagination from our own children is little short of criminal. They need a place to forage their young minds, to stoke the fires of make-believe and ambition, and what better place than the pages of a short story anthology? Surely Sesame Street or Dora the Explorer won't have the same effect; no, lead kids to the source as a place of delight and awe, and they'll eat the fruit and drink the water because they want to.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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	Aesop and Company With Scenes from His Legendary Life by Aesop, prepared by Barbara Bader and illustrated by Arthur Geisert from Sandpiper Books for Preschool-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Michael Hague from Henry Holt and Company Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 1st-5th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, edited by Ann McGovern from Scholastic Inc. for Nursery-2nd grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $2.50 (3 in stock)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Arthur Rackham from Avenel Books for Nursery-2nd grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.00 (2 in stock)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, retold & illustrated by Jerry Pinkney 1st Ed. from Chronicle Books for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $19.99
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Heidi Holder 1^st edition from Viking Press for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $7.50 (2 in stock)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Charles Santore 1988 ed from Dilithium Press, Ltd. for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
	Aesop's Fables Puffin Classics by Aesop Reprint from Puffin Books Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Kindergarten-4th grade in Puffin Classics (Location: FIC-PUF) $7.99
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, Illustrated by Walt Sturrock from Unicorn Publishing House for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Charles Santore from Sterling Publishing Co. for Preschool-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Arthur Rackham from Macmillan Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 1st-Adult in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC) $14.99
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Charles Santore Kohl's Cares Edition from Sterling Publishing Co. for Preschool-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Michael Hague from Henry Holt and Company Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 1st-5th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Charles Santore from Random House for Preschool-2nd grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Charles Santore from Derrydale Books for Preschool-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by W. Kirtman Plummer 1970 printing from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-3rd grade in Companion Library (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Aesop's Fables for Young Readers - Teacher Edition A Beka Reading 1f 3^rd edition from A Beka Books for 1st grade in A Beka Reading (Location: REA-ABK) $12.50 (1 in stock)
	Anansi and the Moss-covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel Reprint from Holiday House for Preschool-1st grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Anansi the Spider Man by Philip M. Sherlock, illustrated by Marcia Brown for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Atlantic Treasury of Childhood Stories by Mary D. Huchinson Hodgkins (selector and editor), illustrated by Beatrice Stevens from Atlantic Monthly Press for 1st-5th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $16.00 (1 in stock)
	Big Book for Peace by Lloyd Alexander, et. al 1^st edition from Dutton Children's Books for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Biggest Frog in Australia by Susan L. Roth from Aladdin Paperbacks for Preschool-1st grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $10.99
	Child's Book of Country Stories by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith from Dilithium Press, Ltd. for 1st-4th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Child's Book of Grace from Parragon Publishing for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Children's Hour - 16 Volume Set by Marjorie Barrows, ed. from Spencer Press for 1st-6th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children by William Russell from Three Rivers Press for Kindergarten-8th grade in Reading Aloud & Story-telling (Location: LIR-RAST)
	Collier's Junior Classics - 10 Volume Set by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $50.00 (1 in stock)
	Collier's Junior Classics - 10 Volume Set Popular Edition by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor 1956 printing from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 1: A, B, C: Go! by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor, Rosemary E. Livsey Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 10: Gifts From the Past by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Elenora Alexander, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 2: Once Upon a Time by Margaret E. Martignoni Series Editor, Elizabeth H. Gross Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 3: Magic In the Air by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Mary V. Gaver, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 4: Just Around the Corner by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Alice Brooks McGuire, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 5: In Your own Backyard by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Marian C. Young, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 6: Harvest of Holidays by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Ruth Weeden Stewart, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 7: Legends of Long Ago by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Jane Darrah, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 8: Roads to Greatness by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Louise Galloway, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 9: Call of Adventure by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Charlemae Rollins, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Contest by Nonny Hogrogian from Greenwillow Books Armenian Folktale for 1st-3rd grade 1977 Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Fables of Aesop by Aesop, illustrated by Edward J. Detmold from Gramercy Books for Kindergarten-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Fables of Aesop by Aesop, illustrated by Stephen Gooden and translated by Roger L’Estrange from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Everyman's Library Children's Classics (Location: FIC-ELC)
	Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin from Yesterday's Classics for 1st-4th grade in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $11.95
	Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin from Yesterday's Classics for 1st-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $11.95
	Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin from Living Book Press for 1st-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.99
	Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales by Jacqueline Onassis, illustrated by Boris Zvorykin from Viking Press for Preschool-2nd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	For the Children's Hour by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Clara M. Lewis from Yesterday's Classics for Nursery-1st grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $18.95
	Gift of the Sun A Tale from South Africa by Dianne Stewart for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Grasshopper and the Ants by Jerry Pinkney from Little, Brown & Company for Preschool-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Hidden Tales from Eastern Europe by Antonia Barber from Frances Lincoln for Preschool-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $6.00 (3 in stock)
	How and Why: Heroes by George W. Diemer (editor), contributing editor Claude Merton Wise from The L.J. Bullard Co. for 1st-4th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Illustrated Treasury of Humor for Children by Judith Hendra, editor; introduction by William Cole from Grosset & Dunlap for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Kaleidoscope of Fairies & Fables by Hans Andersen, Aesop, Kipling & the Brothers Grimm, retold by Robert Mathias from Hamlyn for Kindergarten-4th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Kindergarten Gems by Agnes Taylor Ketchum, Ida M. Jorgensen from Yesterday's Classics for Preschool-1st grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $15.95
	Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book Forty World Folktales Especially for Reading Aloud by Bob Hartman, Krisztina Kallai Nagy from Lion Publishing for Nursery-1st grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book from Lion Hudson for Preschool-2nd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Little Child's Book of Stories by Ada M. Skinner & Eleanor L. Skinner, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith from Dilithium Press, Ltd. for Preschool-3rd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	My Book House #01: In the Nursery by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #01: In the Nursery by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #03: Up One Pair of Stairs by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #05: Over the Hills by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #05: Over the Hills by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #06: Through Fairy Halls by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #07: The Magic Garden by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #08: Flying Sails by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #10: From the Tower Window My Book House by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #10: From the Tower Window by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #11: In Shining Armor by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House #12: Halls of Fame by Olive Beaupre Miller from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	My Book House - 12-Volume Set White Version by Olive Beaupre Miller, editor from Book House for Children for Preschool-6th grade in My Book House (Location: VIN-ANTH) $75.00 (1 in stock)
	New World Echoes A Cycle 3 reader Copper Lodge Library by Compiled and Edited by Jennifer Courtney from Classical Conversations for 1st-6th grade in Classical Conversations (Location: CUR-CC) $14.95
	Nursery Friends from France from Book House for Children for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $19.00 (1 in stock)
	Over the Hills and Far Away A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Elizabeth Hammill from Candlewick Press for Nursery-1st grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Robert Florczak Reprint from HarperCollins for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $8.99
	Platt & Munk Treasury of Stories for Children by Nancy Christensen Hall, editor from Grosset & Dunlap for 1st-3rd grade in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE)
	Read-To-Me Storybook by Lois Lenski, Illustrator from HarperCollins for Nursery-2nd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Reading-Literature First Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free from Yesterday's Classics for 1st-2nd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Reading-Literature Second Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free from Yesterday's Classics for 1st-2nd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Seven Chinese Sisters by Kathy Tucker Reprint from Albert Whitman & Company for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Stories from Around the World by Heather Amery from Usborne for Nursery-2nd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Stories from Hawaii Folklore of the World by Edward W. Dolch, Marguerite P. Dolch, & Ted Schroeder (Illustrator) from Garrard Publishing Company for 1st-3rd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Stories from India Folklore of the World by Edward W. Dolch, Marguerite P. Dolch, & Gordon Laite (Illustrator) from Garrard Publishing Company for 1st-3rd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Stories from Old China Folklore of the World by Edward W. Dolch, Marguerite P. Dolch, & Seong Moy (Illustrator from Garrard Publishing Company for 1st-3rd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Sun, Moon, and Stars by Mary Hoffman from Dutton Children's Books for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Tales Told in Holland by Olive Beaupre Miller, Illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham from Book House for Children for 1st-6th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $18.00 (2 in stock)
	Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights by Gustaf Tenggren from Golden Books for 1st-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Through Golden Windows (Ten Volume Set) from Grolier Publishing for 1st-6th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH)
	Tiger and the Brahmin by Brian Gleeson from Simon and Schuster for 1st-3rd grade in Tools for Young Historians (Location: BIBWV-TYH)
	Treasury of Children's Literature by Armand Eisen for Preschool-3rd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Two Ways to Count to Ten A Liberian Folktale by Ruby Dee Reprint from Square Fish Publishing for Preschool-1st grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories - Volume 2 by Arthur Stanley Maxwell from Pacific Press for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Uncle Arthur's Stories (Location: FIC-WH07) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories - Volume 3 by Arthur Stanley Maxwell from Pacific Press for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Uncle Arthur's Stories (Location: FIC-WH07)
	Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories - Volume 5 by Arthur Stanley Maxwell from Review and Herald Publishing Association for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Uncle Arthur's Stories (Location: FIC-WH07) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories First Series Volumes 1-4 by Arthur S. Maxwell from Review and Herald Publishing Association for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Uncle Arthur's Stories (Location: FIC-WH07) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Unwitting Wisdom An Anthology of Aesop's Fables by Aesop, retold and illustrated by Helen Ward from Chronicle Books for Preschool-3rd grade in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
	Very Little Child's Book of Stories by Ada M. Skinner & Eleanor L. Skinner, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith from Dilithium Press, Ltd. for Preschool-3rd grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Viking Tales by Jennie Hall from Living Book Press for 1st-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.99
	Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell Reprint from HMH Books for Young Readers for 1st-3rd grade 1969 Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
	Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell Reprint from Scholastic Inc. for 1st-3rd grade 1969 Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $3.50 (1 in stock)
	Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell, illustrated by Blair Lent from Houghton Mifflin for 1st-3rd grade 1969 Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)

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