The Humpherys Family

Best in Children's Books {Vol. 09}

Record Added: 3/12/2010
Illustrator Multiple Authors
Series Best in Children's Books
Topic Collection of Stories
Publisher Doubleday Publishers
Year 1958
Age 9-12   Pages 160
Description Gray cover, yellow spine
 
  • Boy King Arthur by Mary MacLeod, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz (1-36) 
  • Baby Bear by Hamilton Williamson, illustrated Feodor Rojankovsky (37-44) 
  • Joyful Poems illustrated by Aldren A. Watson (45-66)
  • Includes: The Butterfly's Ball by William Roscoe
  • Dancing on the Hilltops by Christina Rosetti
  • Picture Books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Gay Go Up and Down by Mother Goose (...Say the bells of St. Mary...{or various chapels})
  • The Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Jane Taylor (full, original poem)
  • What Eddie Brought Home by Carolyn Haywood, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats (67-76) 
  • Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Kate Seredy (77-84) 
  • World Uses Electricity by Sara E. Baldwin, illustrated by Garry MacKenzie (85-101) 
  • True Book of the Circus by Mabel Harmer, illustrated by Paul Galdone (102-116) 
  • Birds of the South Pacific illustrated with photos (117-124) 
  • Books of Nah-wee by Grace and Carl Moon, illustrated by Paul Lantz (125-155) 
  • Let's Visit South Africa illustrated with photos (156-160)
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