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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)
	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) $9.99 $5.50 (3 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)
	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)
	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
	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) $17.99 $6.00 (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) $7.99
	Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen from Pantheon Books for 4th-Adult in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales Calla Editions by Grace James from Dover Publications for 7th-10th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	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)
	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)
	Oscar Wilde Stories for Children by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by PJ Lynch from Hodder Children's for 4th-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	Paul Buyan Twenty-One Tales of the Legendary Logger by Esther Shephard, illustrated by Rockwell Kent Reissue from Odyssey Press for 3rd-7th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT)
	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)
	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) $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 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)
	Sweet and Sour Tales from China from HMH Books for Young Readers in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $8.95 $6.00 (2 in stock)
	Tale of the Cid: and Other Stories of Knights and Chivalry by Andrew Lang from Dover Publications for 6th-Adult in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $9.95
	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) $12.99
	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)
	Wise Words by Peter Leithart from GCB Publishing Group for 3rd-8th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	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)

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