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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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	Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys by Neil Oliver from William Morrow & Company for 4th-8th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $7.20 (1 in stock)
	American Folklore and Legend by Robert Dolezal from Reader's Digest for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $3.20 (1 in stock)
	American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenberg from Puffin Books for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $6.79
	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) $12.80 (1 in stock)
	Barefoot Book of Earth Tales by Dawn Casey, Anne Wilson from Barefoot Books for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan from Aladdin Paperbacks Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 3rd-7th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.49 $4.40 (5 in stock)
	Beautiful Blue Jay and Other Tales of India by John W. Spellman, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney 1^st edition from Little, Brown & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $7.20 (1 in stock)
	Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett from Simon and Schuster for 4th-9th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Book of Virtues for Young People by William J. Bennett, ed. 1^st edition from Simon and Schuster for 3rd-8th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $8.50 (1 in stock)
	Celtic Fairy Tales by Neil Philip, illustrated by Isabelle Brent from Viking Press for 3rd-8th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $9.60 (1 in stock)
	Chronicles of Harris Burdick Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg 1^st edition from Houghton Mifflin for 5th-8th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $19.99
	Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children by William Russell from Three Rivers Press for Kindergarten-8th grade in Reading Aloud & Storytelling (Location: LIR-RAST) $14.99
	Courage to Adventure Stories of Boys and Girls Growing Up with America by Child Study Association of America (editors), illustrated by Reisie Lonette from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $5.60 (1 in stock)
	Cow-Tail Switch And Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander, George Herzog Reissue from Square Fish Publishing for 5th-7th grade 1948 Newbery Honor Book in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $15.29 $4.80 (1 in stock)
	Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack, illustrated by Brian Pinkney from Yearling for 4th-7th grade 1993 Newbery Honor Book in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $6.79
	English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs from Everyman's Library for 3rd-6th grade in Everyman's Library Children's Classics (Location: FIC-ELC) $17.85
	Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen from Pantheon Books for 4th-Adult in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $7.20 (1 in stock)
	Gold Thread and Other Stories of Young Faith by Norman Maclead from Whole Heart Ministries for 3rd-6th grade in Morality Tales (Location: FIC-WH05) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Golden Prize and Other Stories About Horses by Mel Crawford, illustrator from Whitman Publishing Company for 4th-6th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $3.20 (1 in stock)
	Illustrated Treasury of Modern Literature for Children from Exeter Books for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $6.40 (1 in stock)
	Kingfisher Book of Classic Boy Stories A Treasury of Favorites from Children's Literature by Michael Morpurgo, editor 1^st edition from Kingfisher in Picture Book Treasuries (Location: PIC-TRE) $7.20 (1 in stock)
	Kingfisher Treasury of Stories from Around the World by Linda Jennings from Kingfisher for 3rd-5th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $2.80 (1 in stock)
	Moral Compass by William J. Bennett 1^st edition from Simon and Schuster for 4th-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $4.00 (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) $17.80
	Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett 2025 Reprint from Unknown Publisher for 3rd-8th grade 1929 Newbery Honor Book in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $19.99
	Stand Up, Mr. Dickens A Dickens Anthology by Charles Dickens, edited and abridged by Edward Blishen, illustrated by Jill Bennett from Houghton Mifflin for 4th-8th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $6.40 (1 in stock)
	Stories of Wizards by Gillian Doherty, illustrated by Linda Edwards from Usborne for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $7.20 (1 in stock)
	Sweet and Sour Tales from China from HMH Books for Young Readers in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $7.61 $4.80 (2 in stock)
	Tales from Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger from Dover Publications for 4th-8th grade 1925 Newbery Medal winner in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $11.04
	Tales from Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger 1971 printing from Doubleday & Company for 4th-8th grade 1925 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Thirty More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin from Yesterday's Classics for 2nd-5th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $12.71
	Thirty More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin from Living Book Press for 2nd-5th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.49
	Urashima and the Kingdom Beneath the Sea by Ralph F. McCarthy from Kodansha for 4th-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Wise Words by Peter Leithart from GCB Publishing Group for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $6.40 (1 in stock)
	Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales by Kevin Crossley-Holland from Oxford University for 4th grade-adult in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer from HarperCollins for 3rd-6th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $6.76 $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer; illustrated by Maurice Sendak from Harper & Row for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.60 (1 in stock)

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