Best Loved Singing Games illustrated by Polly Jackson. Goldilocks and the Three Bears illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. Apple Names the Children by Jean McDevitt, illustrated by Ninon. Houses Old and New written and illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham Jack and the Beanstalk edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Henry C. Volume 2 includes: Aesop's Fables edited by Mary MacNab, illustrated by Tony Palazzo. Stories were profusely illustrated by new and well-known artists. The series featured popular stories by many prominent children's authors. There is a vertical crease on pages 103-114. It includes a complete listing of all books in the series with their contents.Volume 2 is a collectible book from the Best in Children's Books series. This description is taken from "Best in Children's Books Index" by Dee Jones, a webpage created for the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Mythology was introduced with stories about Pandora, Ulysses, Pegasus, Damocles, and Jason. A love of history was fostered through stories about Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Boone, Robert Fulton, Clara Barton, Marco Polo, and the Wright Brothers. Every volume had an informational piece on a different country, complete with photographs, introducing children to new and exotic lands like Japan, Israel, and Thailand.
Included were numerous folk and fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm Mother Goose rhymes retellings of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and The Ugly Duckling and adaptations of Robinson Crusoe, A Christmas Carol, and Gulliver's Travels. Reprints of volumes were designated by the addition of a lower case "a" following the volume number.Įach volume contained a mix of classics, new stories, and non fiction. The volume designation is difficult to determine at first glance, since it is marked only by a number on the bottom right corner of the title page and on the back flap of the dust jacket. In all, there were 42 volumes published, each issued with a full color dust jacket. From 1957 to 1961, the Doubleday Book Clubs, under the Nelson Doubleday imprint, published a multi-volume work entitled Best in Children's Books.
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