Exceptional collection of literature, beginning with favorite poems and shorter stories to read to young children and for beginning readers. The stories become progressively more difficult with each subsequent volume. The books include stories and excerpts from novels by such authors as Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Little House books), Tennyson, George Washington, Longfellow, Emily Dickenson, Lydia Marie Child, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Kipling, Browning, and many more. Books include many illustrations.
Titles Include:
- ABC Go!
- Once Upon a Time
- Magic in the Air
- Just Around the Corner
- In Your Own Backyard
- Harvest of Holidays
- Legends of Long Ago
- Roads to Greatness
- Call of Adventure
- Gifts From the Past
Also have The New Junior Classics/Young Folks Shelf of Books {1960}:
Volume 4 "Hero Tales", 2/27/15, DI $2
Vol 4 Stories Include:
- Odysseus
- Rustem and Sohrab
- The Forging of the Sampo (The Kalevala)
- Roland and Oliver (The Song of Roland)
- The Chronicles of the Cid
- Beowulf
- King Arthur
- The Hunting of the Boar (The Mabinogion)
- Finn and Oisin, The Boyhood of Cuchulain (Celtic Heroes)
- Robin Hood
