SOLVED. Children Short Story anthology, around the world. Contains story about pearl divers and a story about sick girl selling piggy banks. Read early 2000s. [s]

[Aimee]

Part of a larger series of books on teaching children general things; one book talked about plants, one book talked about simple machines, etc. They were all different colors, hardcover, and numbered. One of the other books was maybe green or pink and about fables, containing a Doctor Dolittle story with a unicorn? This book was about children around the world and was maybe green or pink?

I only properly remember two stories in the book, one about siblings in Asia (probably the Philippines) and pearl diving, and one about a girl in Central or South America who got sick and lost the use of her legs. The girl then sells clay pigs and secretly learns how to walk again.

I read this in the early 2000s, but I remember reading the publishing date and it saying sometime in either the 80s or 90s.

If anyone knows the short stories themselves and not the whole anthology, that works too!

[Orsolya Könyvtáros (formerly Memp)]

These are the Childcraft encyclopaedias! The fables one with Dr. Dolittle is volume 2, Stories And Fables. Volume 3, Children Everywhere, has the story about the little girl with polio ("Crucita and Her Piggy Bank") and the Filipino siblings who fish for oysters ("Christmas in a Little Barrio"). There have been several different editions over the years, so I can't answer for what specific colors yours might have been.

...and the reason I know this is because volume 6, "The Green Kingdom," was my favorite book ever when I was a child.

[Aimee]

Orsolya Könyvtáros (formerly Memp) wrote: "These are the Childcraft encyclopaedias! The fables one with Dr. Dolittle is volume 2, Stories And Fables. Volume 3, Children Everywhere, has the story about the littl..."

That's it! Thank you so much <3

[Kris]

Glad you found your book series, Aimee.

For shelving purposes, ChildCraft, Poems of Early Childhood (book 1) of the Childcraft - The How and Why Library 1973-1982 by Childcraft International - Orsolya's find.

[Orsolya Könyvtáros (formerly Memp)]

You're welcome! I have such fond memories of these.