A Treasury of Children's Literature

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

A collection of traditional and original stories and poems by such authors as Aesop and Lewis Carroll. The book also contains excerpts from The Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan. There are more than 200 full color paintings in the book's 300 pages.

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 3-- A collection of fables, folk tales, and poems, as well as excerpts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Pinocchio , The Wind in the Willows , The Nutcracker , and Peter Pan . Paintings by 16 different artists accompany the selections. Much of the art is highly reminiscent of the romantic works of 19th-century illustrators; some paintings actually have the same palette, arrangement of figures, and characters found in earlier artistic interpretations of these stories. Unlike Edens's The Three Princesses Bantam, 1991 and The Glorious Mother Goose Atheneum, 1988, which include early illustrative renderings of these works, this book holds little historical interest. It seems to be designed for home collections rather than for libraries, which will have all of these selections in many other sources. --Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie

From Barnes & Noble

Includes favorite stories, from "The 3 Little Pigs" & "Little Red Riding Hood" to Peter Pan, plus fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen & the Brothers Grimm, Aesop's fables, Mother Goose rhymes, classic poems, more. 8" x 10". Color illus. All ages