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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
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he's a husband and father who loves church, good food, and weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

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	Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful by Alfred Hitchcock, illustrated by Fred Banbery from Random House for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies by Alfred Hitchcock (editor); illustrated by Paul Spina from Random House for 4th-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	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) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	American Fairy Tales From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories 1^st edition from Hyperion Books for Children for 3rd-Adult in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Animal Stories by Edited by Walter de la Mare from Charles Scribner's Sons for 3rd-8th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Anthology of Children's Literature by Edna Johnson, Evelyn R. Sickels, and Frances Clarke Sayers (editors), illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg & N. C. Wyeth 4^th edition from Houghton Mifflin for 3rd-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	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)
	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) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Book of Dragons by Michael Hague 1^st edition from HarperCollins for 3rd-7th grade in Dragons & Mythical Beasts (Location: FIC-DRAG)
	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)
	Buddha Stories by Demi 1^st edition from Henry Holt and Company for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Celtic Fairy Tales by Neil Philip, illustrated by Isabelle Brent from Viking Press for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $12.00 (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 $12.50 (1 in stock)
	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) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Dog of Flanders and Other Stories by Louise De La Ramee from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-6th grade in Animal Stories (Location: FIC-ANI)
	English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs from Everyman's Library for 3rd-6th grade in Everyman's Library Children's Classics (Location: FIC-ELC) $21.00
	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) $4.00 (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) $8.00 (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) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Laugh Book A New Treasury of Humor for Children by Compiled by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson, Illustrated by Marilyn Hafner from Doubleday & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Humor & Comedy (Location: FIC-COM)
	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)
	More Stories to Remember Volume 1 by Thomas B. Costain & John Beecroft, illustrated by Fred Banbery from Doubleday & Company for 6th-12th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	My Book House #02: Story Time by Olive Beaupre Miller from Dover Publications for 2nd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo With Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes by John Bennett from Longmans, Green & Co. for 3rd-8th grade 1929 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	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) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Stories For Young People: Leo Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude, edited by Donna Tussing Orwin, and illustrated by Herve Blondon from Sterling Publishing Co. for 4th-12th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $7.50 (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) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Stories to Solve Fifteen Folktales from Around the World by George Shannon 1^st edition from Greenwillow Books for 5th-7th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	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) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Tales Told Again by Walter De La Mare from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 4th-8th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	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)
	Twenty-Two Russian Tales for Young Children by Leo Tolstoy, selected, translated, and with an afterword by Miriam Morton, illustrated by Eros Keith from Simon and Schuster for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
	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)
	World's Best Fairy Tales A Reader's Digest Anthology by Belle Becker Sideman (editor), illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Reader's Digest for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	World's Best Fairy Tales Volume 1 A Reader's Digest Anthology by Belle Becker Sideman (editor), illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Reader's Digest for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	World's Best Fairy Tales Volume 2 A Reader's Digest Anthology by Belle Becker Sideman (editor), illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Reader's Digest for 3rd-6th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
	Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales by Kevin Crossley-Holland (editor) from Oxford University for 4th grade-adult in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.00 (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) $12.00 (1 in stock)

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