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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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	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)
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	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)
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	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)
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	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)
	Good Times Today The Macmillan Readers by Arthur I. Gates and Celeste Comegys Peardon 1956 printing from Macmillan for 3rd-4th grade in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ) $4.00 (1 in stock)
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	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)
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	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)
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