Classics of children's literature
Subtitle: Third edition
By: edited by John W. Griffith, Charles H. Frey.
Contributors: Griffith, John W.; Frey, Charles H.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1408
ISBN-13: 9780023472909
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Children's literature.; Literature -- Collections.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 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 --; title: Mme le Prince de Beaumont : Beauty and the beast --; title: 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 --; title: 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 --; title: 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 --; title: Heinrich Hoffman : Struwwelpeter --; title: Peter Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe : East o' the sun and west o' the moon ; The three billy goats gruff --; title: 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 --; title: Charles Dickens : A Christmas carol --; title: John Ruskin : The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers --; title: Louisa May Alcott : Little women --; title: Lewis Carroll : Alice's adventures in Wonderland --; title: Mark Twain : The adventures of Tom Sawyer --; title: Robert Lewis Stevenson : Treasure Island --; title: 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 --; title: L. Frank Baum : The marvelous land of Oz --; title: Kenneth Grahame : The wind in the willows --; title: James M. Barrie : Peter Pan --; title: Rudyard Kipling : Kim --; title: Beatrix Potter : The tale of Peter Rabbit ; The tale of squirrel Nutkin --; title: Laura Ingalls Wilder : Little house on the prairie.