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Classics of Children's Literature
Charles Perrault : The sleeping beauty in the woods ; Little red riding hood ; Blue beard ; The master cat, or Puss in Boots ; Cinderella, or The little glass slipper --
Mme le Prince de Beaumont : Beauty and the beast --
John Newberry : I won't be my father's Jack ; Three wise men of Gotham ; There was an old woman ; Ding dong bell ; Little Tom Tucker ; Se saw, Margery Daw ; Great A, little a ; High diddle diddle ; Ride a cock horse ; Cock a doodle doo ; Jack and Gill ; Hish-a-by baby ; Little Jack Horner ; Pease-porridge hot ; Jack Sprat ; Tell tale tit ; Patty cake, patty cake ; When I was a little boy ; This pig went to market ; There was a man of Thessaly ; Bah, bah, black sheep ; There were two blackbirds ; Boys and girls come out to play ; Dickery, dickery, dock --
The brothers Grimm : Snow-white ; The frog prince ; Hansel and Grethel ; Rumpelstiltskin ; Mother Hulda ; The Bremen town musicians ; Aschenputtel ; The fisherman and his wife ; The brave little tailor ; The wolf and the seven little kids ; Rapunzel ; The robber bridegroom ; The almond tree ; The sleeping beauty --
Hans Christian Andersen : The snow queen : A tale in seven stories ; The little mermaid ; The princess and the pea ; The tinder box ; The little match girl ; The swindherd ; The emperor's new clothes ; The steadfast tin soldier ; The ugly duckling --
Heinrich Hoffman : Struwwelpeter --
Peter Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe : East o' the sun and west o' the moon ; The three billy goats gruff --
Edward Lear : There was an old man in a tree ; There was an old man in a boat ; There was an old person of Philoe ; There was an old man of the dee ; There was an old man who said, "How" ; There was an old man who said, "Hush!" ; There was an old person of Bangor ; There was an old man with a beard ; The owl and the pussy-cat ; The dong with a luminous nose --
Charles Dickens : A Christmas carol --
John Ruskin : The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers --
Louisa May Alcott : Little women --
Lewis Carroll : Alice's adventures in Wonderland --
Mark Twain : The adventures of Tom Sawyer --
Robert Lewis Stevenson : Treasure Island --
Joseph Jacobs : Tom tit tot ; Jack and the beanstalk ; The story of the three little pigs ; The story of the three bears ; Henny-penny ; Molly Whuppie ; Lazy Jack ; Johnny-cake ; Master of all masters --
L. Frank Baum : The marvelous land of Oz --
Kenneth Grahame : The wind in the willows --
James M. Barrie : Peter Pan --
Rudyard Kipling : Kim --
Beatrix Potter : The tale of Peter Rabbit ; The tale of squirrel Nutkin --
Laura Ingalls Wilder : Little house on the prairie.
Mme le Prince de Beaumont : Beauty and the beast --
John Newberry : I won't be my father's Jack ; Three wise men of Gotham ; There was an old woman ; Ding dong bell ; Little Tom Tucker ; Se saw, Margery Daw ; Great A, little a ; High diddle diddle ; Ride a cock horse ; Cock a doodle doo ; Jack and Gill ; Hish-a-by baby ; Little Jack Horner ; Pease-porridge hot ; Jack Sprat ; Tell tale tit ; Patty cake, patty cake ; When I was a little boy ; This pig went to market ; There was a man of Thessaly ; Bah, bah, black sheep ; There were two blackbirds ; Boys and girls come out to play ; Dickery, dickery, dock --
The brothers Grimm : Snow-white ; The frog prince ; Hansel and Grethel ; Rumpelstiltskin ; Mother Hulda ; The Bremen town musicians ; Aschenputtel ; The fisherman and his wife ; The brave little tailor ; The wolf and the seven little kids ; Rapunzel ; The robber bridegroom ; The almond tree ; The sleeping beauty --
Hans Christian Andersen : The snow queen : A tale in seven stories ; The little mermaid ; The princess and the pea ; The tinder box ; The little match girl ; The swindherd ; The emperor's new clothes ; The steadfast tin soldier ; The ugly duckling --
Heinrich Hoffman : Struwwelpeter --
Peter Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe : East o' the sun and west o' the moon ; The three billy goats gruff --
Edward Lear : There was an old man in a tree ; There was an old man in a boat ; There was an old person of Philoe ; There was an old man of the dee ; There was an old man who said, "How" ; There was an old man who said, "Hush!" ; There was an old person of Bangor ; There was an old man with a beard ; The owl and the pussy-cat ; The dong with a luminous nose --
Charles Dickens : A Christmas carol --
John Ruskin : The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers --
Louisa May Alcott : Little women --
Lewis Carroll : Alice's adventures in Wonderland --
Mark Twain : The adventures of Tom Sawyer --
Robert Lewis Stevenson : Treasure Island --
Joseph Jacobs : Tom tit tot ; Jack and the beanstalk ; The story of the three little pigs ; The story of the three bears ; Henny-penny ; Molly Whuppie ; Lazy Jack ; Johnny-cake ; Master of all masters --
L. Frank Baum : The marvelous land of Oz --
Kenneth Grahame : The wind in the willows --
James M. Barrie : Peter Pan --
Rudyard Kipling : Kim --
Beatrix Potter : The tale of Peter Rabbit ; The tale of squirrel Nutkin --
Laura Ingalls Wilder : Little house on the prairie.
1408 pages, Paperback
First published January 31, 1992
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
January 21, 2017
I absolutely love his book :) This is a wonderful collection of literature for my children's literature course! I will keep this book to further read and enjoy after my class is over.
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Rach
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Rach
October 9, 2012
I read selected stories from this MASSIVE collection of children's literature for a History of Children's Literature course. I appreciated the brief descriptions of the authors that came before each story/section of stories by that author.
The print was somewhat difficult to read, maybe too small?? Or perhaps, I've become spoiled by my Kindle...I also would have liked more illustrations. It just felt odd to be reading children's literature without the beautiful illustrations that traditionally accompany Children's literature.
The print was somewhat difficult to read, maybe too small?? Or perhaps, I've become spoiled by my Kindle...I also would have liked more illustrations. It just felt odd to be reading children's literature without the beautiful illustrations that traditionally accompany Children's literature.
October 24, 2022
Kiddie stories!!! Not only does it include the *non-Disneyized* versions of classics like "The Little Mermaid" and "Little Red Riding-hood," but also Edward Lear's poems, Kipling, the German Struwwelpeter, and the complete texts of Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Alice in Wonderland, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Peter Pan, and Charlotte's Web. This book is awesome!!
September 11, 2018
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast
September 15, 2008
This is a great collection of children's lit. If you read aloud a few pages per day, it will take a few months to finish. Young children like it, even with no pictures. The original Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty (you probably never knew her mother in law was a cannabalistic ogre!), Little Red Riding Hood, The Wizard of Oz, Treasure Island, and many, many others are found in this collection. Just skip The Almond Tree, it's an awful story to read to children. This single story gets one star.
May 19, 2011
I love rereading all of the children's stories in their original versions! Very interesting and somewhat terrifying.
January 26, 2014
I'm still toward the beginning, but loving the fairy tales... This is a large tome that may take me awhile, but looks wonderful!
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