Best in children's books
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Description: A collection of world literature, old and new, for children, volume contains fiction, poetry, historical adventures, games, fairy tales, nature, science, and geography sections.
Notes: Title, imprint and volume number from table of contents page on endpapers.
Table of contents: title: Wonderful story of Moses : from the Old Testament  -- adapted by Mary Macnab; title: Barbara Frietchie  -- John Greanleaf Whittier; title: Lad and other Sunnybank dogs : selections adapted from "A book of famous dogs"  -- Albert Payson Terhune; title: Whistle for the train  -- Golden Macdonald; title: Big brother  -- Laura Bannon; title: Mushrooms and their cousins --; title: Snipp, Snapp, Snurr, and the buttered bread  -- Maj Lindman; title: Eletelephony and other verses  -- Laura E. Richards; title: Experimenting with electricity  -- Victor C. Smith, Barbara Henderson, and W.R. Teeters; title: Hawaiian Islands