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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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Old Crispin, the mushroom gatherer, and his good wife Chloe had ten children, and nine of them were bad-tempered.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Includes some of the most popular children's books: THE GOLDEN GOOSE THE THREE BEARS THE 3 LITTLE PIGS TOM THUMB Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862–1940) was a British artist and writer who was born on 24 September 1862, in Birkenhead, England.

Jean Ingelow, was an English poet and novelist. Her best-known poems include "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire" and "Divided".

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

It is to Perrault that we owe our acquaintance with the greater number of good old-fashioned fairy-tales, but an edition of these, although it includes such intimate friends of our childhood as Blue Beard, the Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding-Hood, is hardly complete without "Beauty and the Beast"; a version of this tale, by Mme.

This gorgeous collectors' edition collects several of the timeless stories from The Arabian Nights, faithfully retold by English author Laurence Housman and magnificently enhanced with 23 color plates by illustrator Edmund Dulac, one of the most talented artists of the Golden Age of Illustration.

A collection of twenty stories, drawn from original sources, and chosen for their variety of subject and range of interest.

The Wallypug in London is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

In 1813 Europe was busy watching the career of the Corsican Giant--which was nearing its end. Having reached the summit of power, and put his foot on the neck of Europe, Napoleon was suddenly hurled down from his dizzy height. And yet in the midst of stirring events and the din of arms, people found time to pay attention to important literary productions. A curious book, "The Strange Narrative of Peter Schlemihl," by Louis Adelbert von Chamisso, which made its first appearance in Germany in 1813, aroused an ever increasing interest, in spite of the distraction of the public mind, until the name of the author became world-famous.

When her true love is abducted by mysterious creatures, a girl must summon the strength to save him

This story relates the experience of one of those unfortunate children whose early days are passed in the companionship of a governess, seldom seeing either parent, and famishing for natural love and tenderness. A charming play as dramatized by the author.

Something Will Turn Up is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

A passage from the book... A single _motif_ of this children's literature, _Fairy Tales_, is here presented, with the aim of organizing this small portion of the curriculum for the child of five, six, or seven years, in the kindergarten and the first grade.

Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960) was an American poet and author from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her works include, Blue Smoke, poems (1919), The Garden of the Plynck (1920), and The Burning Bush (1920). The Garden of the Plynck is a fantasy childrenŽs tale.

This is the story of Joyce and of her adventures in France. Joyce is a great friend of the Little Colonel, and in later volumes shares with her the delightful experiences of the "House Party" and the Holidays."

Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences.

Of the eleven tales which the present volume comprises, the first eight are from the master-hand of Charles Perrault. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) enjoyed much distinction in his day, and is familiar to students of French literature for the prominent part that he played in the famous Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, which so keenly occupied French men of letters in the latter part of the seventeenth century.