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Best in Children's Books, Volume 16
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Best in Children’s Books, Volume 16

$9.00

Best in Children’s Books, Volume 16 edited by Mary Macnab and Gladys Schwarcz. Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, New York. 1958. The contents of Volume 16 include The Peterkin Family, selections from “The Peterkin Papers”, written by Lucretia Hale and illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith; Thumbelina written by Hans Christian Andersen and illustrated by Roberta MacDonald; Sing for Christmas illustrated by Ruth Ives; The Twelve Days of Christmas illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; Johnny Penguin written by Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan and illustrated by Seong Moy; Toys You Can Make written by Tina Lee and illustrated by Manning Lee; Life Along the Amazon illustrated with color photographs; The Best Birthday written by Quail Hawkins and illustrated by Don Freeman; and Let’s Visit Austria with color photographs and an illustrative map. Best in Children’s Books was a reading program for youngsters, for which a staff of experts assembled each month a collection of the world’s best children’s literature, old and new. These volumes, richly illustrated in color by famous artists, are packed from cover to cover with full-length books, poetry, historical adventures, games, fairy tales, nature, science and geography sections — a wide variety of wholesome reading.

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Item Condition

Used – Very Good
Condition Note

Small split on binding, no dust jacket, pages clean and unmarked

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