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Classics of children's literature

Third edition

3rd ed.
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Presents some of the "masterpieces" of children's literature including Mother Goose verses, fairy tales, works by Lear, Ruskin, Carroll, Twain, Stevenson, Baum, Grahame, Kipling, Dickens, Wilder, and more.

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English
Pages
1408

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1992, Macmillan Publishing Company
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Table of Contents

Charles Perrault : The sleeping beauty in the woods ; Little red riding hood ; Blue beard ; The master cat, or Puss in Boots ; Cinderella, or The little glass slipper --
Mme le Prince de Beaumont : Beauty and the beast --
John Newberry : I won't be my father's Jack ; Three wise men of Gotham ; There was an old woman ; Ding dong bell ; Little Tom Tucker ; Se saw, Margery Daw ; Great A, little a ; High diddle diddle ; Ride a cock horse ; Cock a doodle doo ; Jack and Gill ; Hish-a-by baby ; Little Jack Horner ; Pease-porridge hot ; Jack Sprat ; Tell tale tit ; Patty cake, patty cake ; When I was a little boy ; This pig went to market ; There was a man of Thessaly ; Bah, bah, black sheep ; There were two blackbirds ; Boys and girls come out to play ; Dickery, dickery, dock --
The brothers Grimm : Snow-white ; The frog prince ; Hansel and Grethel ; Rumpelstiltskin ; Mother Hulda ; The Bremen town musicians ; Aschenputtel ; The fisherman and his wife ; The brave little tailor ; The wolf and the seven little kids ; Rapunzel ; The robber bridegroom ; The almond tree ; The sleeping beauty --
Hans Christian Andersen : The snow queen : A tale in seven stories ; The little mermaid ; The princess and the pea ; The tinder box ; The little match girl ; The swindherd ; The emperor's new clothes ; The steadfast tin soldier ; The ugly duckling --
Heinrich Hoffman : Struwwelpeter --
Peter Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe : East o' the sun and west o' the moon ; The three billy goats gruff --
Edward Lear : There was an old man in a tree ; There was an old man in a boat ; There was an old person of Philoe ; There was an old man of the dee ; There was an old man who said, "How" ; There was an old man who said, "Hush!" ; There was an old person of Bangor ; There was an old man with a beard ; The owl and the pussy-cat ; The dong with a luminous nose --
Charles Dickens : A Christmas carol --
John Ruskin : The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers --
Louisa May Alcott : Little women --
Lewis Carroll : Alice's adventures in Wonderland --
Mark Twain : The adventures of Tom Sawyer --
Robert Lewis Stevenson : Treasure Island --
Joseph Jacobs : Tom tit tot ; Jack and the beanstalk ; The story of the three little pigs ; The story of the three bears ; Henny-penny ; Molly Whuppie ; Lazy Jack ; Johnny-cake ; Master of all masters --
L. Frank Baum : The marvelous land of Oz --
Kenneth Grahame : The wind in the willows --
James M. Barrie : Peter Pan --
Rudyard Kipling : Kim --
Beatrix Potter : The tale of Peter Rabbit ; The tale of squirrel Nutkin --
Laura Ingalls Wilder : Little house on the prairie.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York, Toronto
Copyright Date
1992

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.8/99282
Library of Congress
PZ5 .C57 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 1408 p. :
Number of pages
1408

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1543076M
Internet Archive
classicsofchildr00john
ISBN 10
0023472901
ISBN 13
9780023472909
LCCN
91021988
OCLC/WorldCat
23940374
Library Thing
149819
Goodreads
5100753

Work Description

Contains:
Charles Perrault : The sleeping beauty in the woods ; Little red riding hood ; Blue beard ; The master cat, or Puss in Boots ; Cinderella, or The little glass slipper --
Mme le Prince de Beaumont : Beauty and the beast --
John Newberry : I won't be my father's Jack ; Three wise men of Gotham ; There was an old woman ; Ding dong bell ; Little Tom Tucker ; Se saw, Margery Daw ; Great A, little a ; High diddle diddle ; Ride a cock horse ; Cock a doodle doo ; Jack and Gill ; Hish-a-by baby ; Little Jack Horner ; Pease-porridge hot ; Jack Sprat ; Tell tale tit ; Patty cake, patty cake ; When I was a little boy ; This pig went to market ; There was a man of Thessaly ; Bah, bah, black sheep ; There were two blackbirds ; Boys and girls come out to play ; Dickery, dickery, dock --
The brothers Grimm : Snow-white ; The frog prince ; Hansel and Grethel ; Rumpelstiltskin ; Mother Hulda ; The Bremen town musicians ; Aschenputtel ; The fisherman and his wife ; The brave little tailor ; The wolf and the seven little kids ; Rapunzel ; The robber bridegroom ; The almond tree ; The sleeping beauty --
Hans Christian Andersen : The snow queen : A tale in seven stories ; The little mermaid ; The princess and the pea ; The tinder box ; The little match girl ; The swindherd ; The emperor's new clothes ; The steadfast tin soldier ; The ugly duckling --
Heinrich Hoffman : Struwwelpeter --
Peter Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe : East o' the sun and west o' the moon ; The three billy goats gruff --
Edward Lear : There was an old man in a tree ; There was an old man in a boat ; There was an old person of Philoe ; There was an old man of the dee ; There was an old man who said, "How" ; There was an old man who said, "Hush!" ; There was an old person of Bangor ; There was an old man with a beard ; The owl and the pussy-cat ; The dong with a luminous nose --
Charles Dickens : A Christmas carol --
John Ruskin : The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers --
Louisa May Alcott : Little women --
Lewis Carroll : Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Mark Twain : The adventures of Tom Sawyer --
Robert Lewis Stevenson : Treasure Island --
Joseph Jacobs : Tom tit tot ; Jack and the beanstalk ; The story of the three little pigs ; The story of the three bears ; Henny-penny ; Molly Whuppie ; Lazy Jack ; Johnny-cake ; Master of all masters --
L. Frank Baum : The marvelous land of Oz --
Kenneth Grahame : The wind in the willows --
James M. Barrie : Peter Pan --
Rudyard Kipling : Kim --
Beatrix Potter : The tale of Peter Rabbit ; The tale of squirrel Nutkin --
Laura Ingalls Wilder : Little house on the prairie.

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