Beautifully illustrated, but some surprising additions

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	• A Treasury of Children's Literature Armand Eisen Houghton Mifflin, 1992 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not for young children

I agree with another reviewer. Classic stories but some are very violent and dark. Definitely not for younger children.

A Great Addition to Your Home Library

I bought this book two years ago when my daughter was 3 years old. We had just moved to China for my husband's work and were then without access to a public (English language)library. This one book added so much depth to our home library. Two years later we are still having fun rereading many stories plus we are trying to read all the ones we haven't read, yet. I think we only have about 4 stories left. The illustrations are also beautiful. We are currently enjoying the section of stories that are excerpts from longer stories. These passages are giving me ideas of which full-length books I will want to buy next.

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Beautifully illustrated, but some surprising additions

This is a very beautiful book indeed, and the vast majority of the stories included are great. Classics like Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood are required reading for cultural literacy (not to mention just plain fun). The poetry and tall tales are good as well.

I was surprised at the excerpts from larger books that were included. Selections of Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Nutcracker, and especially The Wind in the Willows were not favorites at our house. The reader is just thrown in the middle of these stories with no context as to who the characters are or what has happened before in the story. We will be skipping these selections in the future.

Another surprising inclusion was a mention of children being born out of wedlock to Rapunzel, but not everyone would be surprised or offended by that.

Over all, a good addition to our family's library with judicious reading on our part.

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Nice book for children.

This is a great collection of well-known and not so well-known fairy tales. The pictures are beatiful. My son, who just turned 7, really likes it.

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This one-volume library of classic children's literature contains nursery rhymes, poems, fables, and stories, and is lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred full-color drawings by sixteen different artists.

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