Best in children's books. 10.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson Doubleday, Inc., publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.

Children.

Children--Conduct of life.

Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.

Conduct of life.

Natural history--Juvenile literature.

Natural history.

Games--Juvenile literature.

Games.

Science--Juvenile literature.

Science.

Geography--Juvenile literature.

Geography.

Adventure and adventurers--Juvenile literature.

Adventure and adventurers.

Children's stories.

Children's poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Traister, Daniel (donor)

Physical Description:

156 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Nelson Doubleday, Inc., [1958]

Summary:

A collection of world literature, old and new, for children, volume contains fiction, poetry, historical adventures, games, fairy tales, nature, science, and geography sections.

Contents:

Lassie come-home / Eric Knight

Story of William Tell / edited by James Baldwin

Penny and the white horse / Margery Bianco and Margory Collison

Rumpelstiltskin / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

Three little pigs / edited by Joseph Jacobs

Poppy seed cakes / Margery Clark

Peanuts are not nuts and other surprising facts / Robert L. Ripley

Sounds we hear / Craig and Hurley

Rhymes to learn by

Animals of Africa

Traveling the underground railroad / Michael Gorham

Let's visit Spain.

Notes:

Volume number printed at bottom right corner of table of contents.

Title, imprint and volume number from table of contents page on endpapers.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Libra Rare copy has dust jacket retained.

Contains:

Rumpelstiltskin (Folk tale). English.

OCLC:

167232336