Better homes and gardens Second story book
Subtitle: more favorite stories and poems from world literature, with illustrations from famous dditions
By: selected by Betty O'Connor.
Contributors: O'Connor, Betty.
Publisher: Meredith Pub. Co.
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Des Moines, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Genres: Collections.
Other titles: Second story book.
Description: Nineteen stories and poems, with illustrations in full color.  Contains such favorites as: Pied Piper of Hamelin; Story of King Arthur; Perseus and the Gorgon; Lobo, the King of Currumpaw; Diverting history of John Gilpin; Rikki-tikki-tavi; North wind and the sun.
Table of contents: value: The pied piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning; value: Your are old, Father William / Lewis Carroll; value: The trial of the bow / Padraic Colum; value: The apple of contentment / Howard Pyle; value: How boots befooled the king / Howard Pyle; value: The white cat / Mme. La Comtesse D' Aulnoy; value: The gnat and the bull / Aesop; value: The dog in the manger / Aesop; value: The story of King Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory; value: Perseus and the Gorgon / Charles Kingsley; value: The reformed pirate / Frank Stockton; value: The lion, jupiter and the elephant / Aesop; value: Lobo, the King of Currumpaw / Ernest Thompson Seton; value: The diverting history of John Gilpin / William Cowper; value: Rikki-tikki-tavi / Rudyard Kipling; value: The North wind and the Sun / Aesop; value: The gnat and the lion / Aesop; value: The kingdom of the lion / Aesop; value: La Befana: an Italian Christmas Story.