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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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	Aesop's Fables by Aesop from Signet Classics Fairy Tales & Fables for 10th grade-adult in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC) $5.95
	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 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 Arthur Rackham from Macmillan Fairy Tales, Fables, and Legends for 1st-Adult in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC) $14.99
	Aesop's Fables for Children by Aesop, illustrated by Milo Winter Pap/Com from Dover Publications for 2nd-5th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $14.99
	American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenberg from Puffin Books for 3rd-6th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $6.99
	Anpao An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater from HarperCollins for 5th-9th grade 1978 Newbery Honor Book in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV) $8.99
	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 (5 in stock)
	Biggest Frog in Australia by Susan L. Roth from Aladdin Paperbacks for Preschool-1st grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $10.99
	Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess from Dover Publications for 2nd-6th grade in Living Science (Location: SCI-CMLS) $10.99
	Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess from Living Book Press for 2nd-6th grade in Living Science (Location: SCI-CMLS) $19.99
	Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess from Living Book Press for 2nd-6th grade in Living Science (Location: SCI-CMLS) $18.99
	Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess from Living Book Press for 2nd-6th grade in Living Science (Location: SCI-CMLS) $28.99
	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
	Classic Myths to Read Aloud The Great Stories of Greek and Roman Mythology, Specially Arranged for Children Five and Up by an Educational Expert by William F. Russell from Three Rivers Press in Reading Aloud & Story-telling (Location: LIR-RAST) $16.00 $9.50 (1 in stock)
	Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables by Aesop, illustrated by Don Daily from Running Press for 2nd-4th grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $11.99
	Complete Fables of Aesop Penguin Classics by Aesop from Penguin Classics Fables for 9th-Adult in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC) $14.00
	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
	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
	Fables of Aesop Dover Evergreen Classics by Joseph Jacobs from Dover Publications for 2nd-4th grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $5.99
	Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan, Foreword by Jane Yolen from W. W. Norton and Co. for 5th-Adult in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $16.95
	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
	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
	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 and the Mouse Step into Reading Level 1 by Gail Herman from Random House for Preschool-kindergarten in Step into Reading (Location: EAR-STEP) $4.99 $2.50 (7 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
	Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Robert Florczak Reprint from HarperCollins for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $8.99
	Sweet and Sour Tales from China from HMH Books for Young Readers in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $8.95
	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
	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) $12.95
	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) $9.99 $7.50 (1 in stock)
	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
	Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer from HarperCollins for 3rd-6th grade in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN) $7.95 $5.00 (1 in stock)

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