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Contents: It's no fun to be a lion; the land of the caterpillars; the spider and the fly; the little duck who was very pleased with himself; the big brown bear; the woodchuck; the tiger; the camel; a hot day; the kangaroo; the skunk and the sea gull; from one to ten; the procupine and the badgers; the elephant buys a horse; day; night; the sick sparrow; I see you, little yellow wasps; the fox, the weasel, and the little chicken; the bear went o-ver the mountain; the little black hen; the cottontail and the jack rabbit; the gray squirrel; the elephant; the bear; the greedy kitten and the wise little birds; the goose and the rabbit; the lion; the duck; the hippopotamu; the pig; the funny little mouse.

Contents abridged in later editions of this book.

Contents: Hop-o'-my-thumb; Dick Whittington; Jack and the beanstalk; Beauty and the Beast; Henny Penny; Story of Sindbad the sailor; Jack the giant-killer; Ugly duckling; Princess and the pea; Bluebeard; Story of Aladdin; Sleeping Beauty; Barmecide's feast; Toads and diamonds; Three bears; Ali Baba; Cinderella; Puss in boots; Emperor's new clothes; Rip van Winkle; Little Red Riding Hood; Hansel and Grethel; What the old man does is always right.

Contents: The Little Red Hen, A Rose is Red, The Nonsense ABC, The Story of Little Black Sambo, How Charlie Made Topsy Love Him, Hurt No Living Thing, The House That Jack Built, Finger Games, The Owl and the Pussy Cat, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, What is Pink? A Rose is Pink, Names, Meeting the Easter Bunny, 1 and 1 are 2, Months of the Year, The Goops: Table Manners, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story, The Mitten Song, The Little Turtle, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Butter, Ten Little Indians, Over in the Meadow, The Old Woman and Her Pig, Days of the Week, The King's Breakfast, Rain, Lines and Squares, The Brownies' Circus, The Wind, Who Has Seen the Wind?, The Elephant's Child, Peter Pan in Never-Never-Never-Land, The Pirate Ship, A Curious Pup, From a Railway Carriage, Trains, About Elizabeth Eliza's Piano, Pledge of Allegiance, The Flag Goes By, The Story of Live Dolls, The Swing, Thanksgiving Day, The Lion and the Mouse, The Ants and the Grasshopper, Belling the Cat, Old Mother Hubbard, All Through the Night, The Night Before Christmas.

Contents: The Pied Piper of Hamlin, You Are Old Father William, The Trial of the Bow, The Apple of Contentment, How Boots Befooled the King, The White Cat, The Gnat and the Bull, The Dog in the Manger, The Story of King Arthur, Perseus and teh Gorgon, The Reformed Pirate, The Lion Juniper and the Elephant, Lobo the Kind of Currumpaw, The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Rikki-tikki-tavi,The North Wind and the Sun, The Gnat and the Lion, The Kingdom of the Lion, La Befana.

Contents: The Animal Store, Baby Goes to Boston, The Bear Hunt, The Best Game the Fairies Play, Billy Goats Chew, Boredom, A Bug, The Camel's Complaint, The Chickens, Choosing Shoes, Color, The Cow, The Cupboard, Daises, Differences, The Duel, The Elf and the Dormouse, Extremes, Firefly, The First Day of Christmas, For Christmas, The Frog, From a Railway Carriage, General Store, A Goblinade, Grasshopper Green, Growing Up, Gypsies, The Ice Man, If I Were a One-Legged Pirate, I'm Glad, Jill Came From the Fair, Jonathan Bing Dances For Spring, The Land of Counterpane, The Little Bird, The Little Elf, The Little Land, Little Orphant Annie, Little Brown Redbreast, The Little Shepardess to Her Lambs, The Little Turtle, Little Wind, Mice, Miss T., Mr. Nobody, Mr. Rabbit, Moon Song, Mouse, My Shadow, The Naughty Boy, Otherwise, Over the Hills and Far Away, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The People, The Picnic, Radiator Lions, The Raggedy Man, The Road to Raffydiddle, Sally and Manda, The Sea Shell, The Secret, Self-Control, Serious Omission, Some One, Spring Signs, The Sugar-Plum Tree, The Swing, The Tale of Custard the Dragon, Taxis, Tea Party, There Was Once a Puffin, Three Jovial Huntsmen, Travel, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Very Nearly, The Walrus and the Carpenter, Water Noises, What the Toys are Thinking, What the Winds Bring, Where Go the Boats, Who Has Seen the Wind?, Who Likes the Rain?, The Woodpecker, Wynken Blynken and Nod.

It would seem that the "Childcraft" series was first published in 1934 by W. F. Quarrie and company, Chicago. The series was taken over by Field Enterprises, Inc. in 1949, and reprinted throughout the fifties. The best remembered volume, as least judging by our customer requests, is volume one, which is titled "Book of Verse" in the Quarrie edition and "Poems of Early Chilldhood" in the Field edition. The earlier edition is illustrated mainly in black and white, with some two- and three-tone. The Field edition is entirely in color, with such noted illustrators as Eloise Wilkin, Fritz Eichenberg, Milo Winter, and the Walt Disney Studio represented. The selection of poems is substantially the same, but not entirely, and the poems are ordered differently.

1949 Volume Titles: Poems of Early Childhood, Storytelling and Other Poems, Folk and Fairy Tales, Animal Friends and Adventures, Life in Many Lands, Great Men and Famous Deeds, Exploring the World Around Us, Creative Play and Hobbies, The Growing Child, Guidance for Development, Ways of Learning, Guide/Index, Art and Music, Science and Industry.

Contents: The Gingerbread Boy; Henny-Penny; The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids; The Story of the Three Little Pigs; The Old Woman and Her Pig; The Little Red Hen; The Three Bears; The Turnip: Gone is Gone; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; The Golden Goose; The Half-Chick; The History of Tom Thumb; Jack and the Beanstalk; From Tiger to Anansi; Budulinek; The Sun and the Wind; The Miller, his Son, and their Donkey; Wakaima and the Clay Man; The Bremen Town Musicians; The Frog Prince; The Elves and the Shoemaker; Puss in Boots; Snow-white; Cinderella; Little Red Riding-Hood; Molly Whuppie; Rumpelstiltskin; One-Inch Fellow; The Real Princess; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Ugly Duckling.

Contents: Little Red Riding Hood, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Wise Man of Gotham, The Two Frogs, The Real Princess, Little Eva, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, The Gnat and the Bull, The Golden Eggs, The Little Red Hen, Cinderella, The Golden Touch, The Ugly Duckling, The Three Little Pigs, The Dragon and the Monkey, Do What you Can, The Fir Tree, The Sun and the Wind, Rumpelstiltskin, The Ant and the Grasshopper, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Teeny-Tiny Woman, Jack and the Beanstalk, Why the Bear is Stumpy-tailed, The Gingerbread Boy, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, The Lion and the Mouse, The Moon Maiden, The Wonderful Porridge Pot, Puss in Boots, The Morning Glory, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Little Girl and the Hare, The Three Wishes, Rose Red, The Farmer, His Son, and Their Donkey, The Mice and the Cat, The Magpie's Nest, Thumbelina, Lazy Jack, The Little House, The Foolish Weathercock, The Fox and the Grapes, Nail Broth, Why the Evergreens Keep Their Leaves, The Turnip, The Golden Goose, Jorinda and Joringel, The Old Woman and her Pig.

Fairy Tales That Never Grow Old

Edited by Watty Piper
Illustrated by Eulalie, Elizabeth Colborne and Lois Lenski.
Platt & Munk 1932

Contents include: Little Red Riding Hood; Jack and the Beanstalk; Puss In Boots; Cinderella; Snowdrop, Tom Thumb, and 7 others.

Contents: Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes; Fairy Tales Old and New (including Emperor's New Clothes, Snow-White and Rose-Red, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp); Fun and Fantasy (27 stories and poems including The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, How Doth the Little Crocodile, The Purple Cow); Fables and Folk Tales (25 stories including the Uncle Remus story Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman); Adventures of Real Children (including Hans Brinker, Heidi); and Legends and Myths (including Greek Myths, Robin Hood).

Contents include: The Rooster and the Fox; The Pine Tree and its Needles, Olaf and the three Goats; The Cap that Mother Made; How Bunny Rabbit Caught the Sun, The Little Turtle that Could Not Stop Talking; The Shoemaker and the Elves; The Elephant and the Monkey; A Donkey's Story; The Stone in the Road; The Star Dipper, The Old Woman who Wanted All the Cakes, The Easter Rabbit; Little Half Chick; The Country Mouse and the City Mouse.

Gateway to Storyland
A Collection of Stories and Verses for Children

edited by Watty Piper
Illustrated by Eulalie
Platt & Munk

Contents: When A Ring's Around The Moon by Mary Jane Carr; Singeli's Magic Slippers by Martha Inez Johnson; Song for a Summer Evening by Mildred Bowers Armstrong; Little People's Market by Dorothy Brown Thompson; A Goblinade by Florence Page Jaques; The Brownie in the Garden by Elsa Ruth Nast; The Second-Hand Shop by Rowena Bennett; Pipes and Drums by Lilian Holmes; The Pixie's Scarf by Alison Uttley; The Fairies by William Allingham; The Cannery Bear by Ray St. Clair; The Bored Goblins by Dorothy Brown Thompson; The Gift by Jane Werner; Halloween Song by Marjorie Barrows; Finding Fairies by Marjorie Barrows; The Lost Merbaby by Margaret and Mary Baker; The Little House by Elizabeth Godley; The Room Beneath The Tree by James Stephens; Where Hidden Treasure Lies by Sheila O'Neill; Ring-A-Ring O'Fairies by Madelaine Nightingale.

Contents: Gods and Heroes, Prometheus Steals Fire From Heaven, A Miracle on Mount Parnassus, Phaeton and the Horses of the Sun, The Bride of Pluto, Echo and Narcissus, Orpheus and Eurydice, The Gorgon's Head, Heracles, The Golden Fleece, Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, Oedipus, Beowulf, The Battle of Roncevaux, Tristam and Iseult, Rustem and Sohrab, Sigrd of the Volsungs.

Content Sections: In the Beginning; Rhyme with Reasons; Creatures of Every Kind; Gallery of People; Unforgettable Stories; Laughter Holding Both His Sides; Good Things in Small Packages; Wide, Wonderful World; Around the Year; Come Christmas; Sweet and Low; Guiding Stars.

Some of the Poets included: Anonymous, Edward Anthony, The Bible, William Blake, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eugene Field, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, John Keates, Edward Lear, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, Ogden Nash, James Whitcomb Riley, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Louis Untermeyer, William Wordsworth.

Contents: The Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Princess, Donkey-skin, Kuzma and the Fox, Puss in Boots, Thumbelina, Green Snake, The Tinder Box, Cinderella, Kip the Enchanted Cat, Grace and Derek, Urashima and the Turtle, Thumbkin, The Wild Swans, Hans and the Striped Cat, Little Red Riding Hood, The White Deer, Beauty and the Beast, Silvershod, Queen Cat, Cowlick Ricky, The Seven Crow Princes, Bluecrest, The Royal Ram, Bright Deardeer and Kit, Dawn the Golden Haired, Finn the Keen Falcon, Fairies.

The Golden Book of 365 Stories: A Story for Every Day of the Year
(also published as Richard Scarry's A Story A Day: 365 Stories and Rhymes)

Richard Scarry
Egmont Childrens Books, 1960.

Contents: The Upside Down Lady; How Robin Got the Toys Back; Johnny the Engineer; Josie and the Birds; The Naughty Little Bicycle Wheel; The Extra-Speaical Doll; Deedee's Princess; The Squirrel's Thank-You Present; Tommy and the Rain; How Daddy was Fooled; Tommy's Turkey-Lurkey; Sandy and Mandy's Trick; Tony's Little Hammer; How Whisltle Got her Name; Mysterious the Mouse; Judy's Joke; Danny and the Jocko; The Surprise Box; The Roly Poly Policeman; The Funny Little Fat Man; Patty's Secret; Timi and the elephant; plus songs and poems.

Contents include: Bartholomew the Beach Donkey, The Castle Robber, The Clever Panda, The Yetis' New Home, Francis Ferret Stays at Home, Scratchy Spider and the Eight Cream Buns, Brendan the Owl, King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, The Amazing Window Washer, The Colonel's Sausage, The Harvest Mouse, The Pirate, Eric's Breakfast, Helicopter Rescue, The Lost Ring, Gidney the Goat, William Bear's Unusual Day, Old Mrs. Jagger, Fat Percy and the Tuba, The Laziest Animal in the World, The Pet Market, The Magician's Apprentice, The Horse Who Had Hiccups, Albert Penguin's Birthday Party, The Little River That Got Lost, Amanda and the Marmots, The Little Girl Who Loved New Clothes, Vicky and the Little Lost Boy, Arabella and the Weaver, The Sheep That Went to School, The Pretty Shepherdess, Anthony Michael and the Fire, Paolo's Soccer Ball, A Very Friendly Tail, Hummmphrey the Spinning Top, The Sun Lover, Franz and the Huge Friendly Bird, The Magic Emerald, Abel's Dream, Claudius the Elephant, The School's New Wall, Crybaby Hilda and the Magic Flower, Dylan Dragon, The Wonderful Jug of Cream, The White Peacock, Island of Treasure, Vanessa the Vain Mermaid, The Little Windmill That Went Traveling, The Saucy Monkey and the Good Giraffe, Little Lost Whale, Septimus Sebastian Fry's Tricycle, The Tea-Spaniel, The Enchanted Bird of Beauty, The Three-Pig.

My Bookhouse

edited by Olive Beaupre Miller
Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, 1920

My Bookhouse was originally published in 6 thick volumes bound in black cloth with pictorial paste-ons and gilt lettering. In 1927 (approx.) the six volumes were sold as a set in a wooden house (red roof, two red chimneys, gray walls, and a window at each end). Housed with it were three volumes of the taller My Travelship, consisting of Little Pictures of Japan (by Katharine Sturges, 1925, dark blue), Tales Told in Holland (by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1926, red) and Nursery Friends from France (by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1927, light blue).

My Bookhouse was later reprinted in 12 volumes in various colors, the most famous being the "rainbow edition" which begins in a pale green, transitions to dark green, dark blue, and ends in light blue. There were many printings; here are some of the publication years and binding notes, although there may well be others.

1. 1920, 1921, 1922: 6 volumes, black
2. 1925, 1928: 6 volumes, green/silver and red
3. 1932, 1934, 1936: 6 and 12 volumes, green/silver
4. 1937: 12 volumes, navy blue and rainbow
5. 1950, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963: 12 volumes, rainbow
6. 1971 reprint by United Educators: 12 volumes, white

The titles of the 12 volumes are (for the 6 volume set, titles are just the odd numbered ones): In the Nursery, Story Time, Up One Pair of Stairs, Through the Gate, Over the Hill, Through Fairy Halls, The Magic Garden, Flying Sails, The Treasure Chest, From the Tower Window, In Shining Armor and Halls of Fame.

It is very common that volume one is either missing or in tatters. This is because the set is sequential by age, and the babies who drool over the nursery rhymes often destroy the book, while the 10 and 12 year olds who read volume 12 keep the books in much better shape.

There is also a Watty Piper anthology with a similar title, but this book is basically an anthology of three other books:
Favorite Poems of Childhood. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.
Mother Goose Rhymes. Illustrated by Margot Austin.
Animal Stories. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis.

The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales

Compiled and Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
NY: Random House, 1971

Contents: The Lost Half-Hour; Feather o' my Wing; The Nightingale; Beauty and the Beast; The Forest Bride; The Three Wishes; The Dreamer; The Swan Maiden; The Happy Prince; The Prince and the Goose Girl; Prince Rabbit; The Seven Simons.

Contents: Little Red Riding Hood, Story of Peter Pan, Dick Wittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb, Jack and the Beanstalk.

Contents include: The Pied Piper Of Hamelin; The Boy Who Cried Wolf; Hansel and Gretel; The Ugly Duckling; Billy Goat Gruff; and 10 others.

Contents: Somewhere, One Day When We Went Walking, The Sugar-Plum Tree, The Very Mischief, The Little House, Susan's Bears, The Duel, What I Would Do, Mr. Nobody, Someone, Bad Mousie, Calico Pie, Mrs. Brown, The Whale, Moon Song, The Mermaid, The Everlasting Lollipop, The Bear Hunt, Wynken Blynken and Nod, Foreign Lands, A Piper, The Little Elf, The Pear Tree, Growing Up, The Land of Counterpane, Georgie, Strange Tree, When I Was a Bird, How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows it Away, Hiding, The Invisible Playmate, A Swing Song, Clouds, The Crescent Moon.

Contents: Introduction for Their Elders; The Three Bears; Little Red Ridinghood; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Three Little Pigs; Cinderella; Puss in Boots; Tom Thumb; Beauty and the Beast; Hansel and Gretel; The Ugly Duckling; The Princess and the Pea; The Tinderbox; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Rumpelstiltskin; Seven at a Stroke; The Goose Girl; Dick Whittington and His Cat; The Bremen Town Musicians; The Showmaker and the Elves; Rapunzel; The Fisherman and the Wife; The Six Swans; The Princess Who Could Not Laugh; King Thrushbeard; Mother Hulda; Snow White and Rose Red; Sleeping Beauty; The White Snake.

"The New All-Interest Home Library for Children" in five volumes.

Good Times Together: Stories and Rhymes of Fun and Laughter
Mostly Magic: Best-Loved Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Rhymes
Stories of Early America: From Before the White Man came to Daniel Boone, Buffalo Bill and the Winning of the West
Wide Wonderful World: The Wonders of Nature
Wonderful Things Happen: Adventures Everywhere

Four boxed volumes:
Green: Walt Disney's Worlds of Nature
Blue: Walt Disney's America
Red: Walt Disney's Fantasyland
Yellow: Walt Disney's Stories from Other Lands

Contents of Stories from Other Lands: Mary Poppins, the sword in the stone, Alice in Wonderland meets the white rabbit, 101 dalmations, Peter Pan, the adventures of Robin Hood, Goliath II, Portugal: beside the sea, Sardinia: an island apart, Morocco: the blue men, Lapland: people of the reindeer, the Highlands: Scotland's crown, the Danube: river highway of central Europe, Switzerland: people of the mountains, the Swiss family Robinson, Bambi, Darby O'Gill, Big Red, Zorro, the cold-blooded penguin.

1. Vol 1 Red cover Fairy Tales & Fables
2. Vol 2 Green cover Stories of Wonder
3. Vol 3 Blue cover Myths and Legends
4. Vol 4 Dark Orange cover Hero Tales
5. Vol 5 Light Green cover Stories that Never Grow Old
6. Vol 6 Light Orange cover Stories about Boys and Girls
7. Vol 7 Dark Green cover Animal Book
8. Vol 8 Brown cover Stories from History
9. Vol 9 Dark Brown cover Sports and Adventure
10. Vol 10 Light Orange Poetry Reading and Index of stories

Partial Contents: Nursery Rhymes, Nursery Stories (including The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Tale of Peter Rabbit), Fables (there are 20), Fairy Tales (including Snow White, Cinderella, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story -- Brer Rabbit), Poetry (including Wynken, Blynken and Nod).