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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, edited by Ann McGovern from Scholastic Inc. for Nursery-2nd grade in Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore for Children (Location: FIC-MYT) $2.50 (3 in stock)
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	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)
	Collier's Junior Classics - 10 Volume Set by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $50.00 (1 in stock)
	Collier's Junior Classics Volume 10: Gifts From the Past by Margaret E. Martignoni, Series Editor and Elenora Alexander, Volume Editor from Crowell-Collier for Preschool- 3rd Grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $4.00 (1 in stock)
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	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)
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	People Could Fly American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton 1^st edition from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 4th-8th grade in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH) $8.00 (1 in stock)
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	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 (2 in stock)
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	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 (2 in stock)

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