Research Catalog

Title

The World treasury of children's literature / selected and with commentary by Clifton Fadiman ; with additional illustrations by Leslie Morrill.

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, ©1984-©1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
• Morrill, Leslie H.

Description

3 volumes : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

A three-volume anthology of classical and contemporary children's stories, poems, myths, and legends from many countries.

Subjects

• Literature > Collections
• Juvenile works
• Children's literature

Genre/Form

• Juvenile works.
• Children's literature.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Contents

Volume 3. As I was laying on the green ; Little Willie ; Sister Nell ; I raised a great hullabaloo ; The donkey / Anon. -- Little house in the woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- AEIOU / Jonathan Swift -- Bartek the doctor / Maia Wojciechowska -- Opposites / Richard Wilbur -- Laughing gas / P.L. Travers -- Eat-it-all Elaine / Kaye Starbird -- Many moons / James Thurber -- The acrobats ; The battle ; The land of Happy ; A poem on the neck of a running giraffe / Shel Silverstein -- Of ships and trees / Beatrice Tanaka -- WHo has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti -- Chester ; Harry cat / George Selden -- Firefly / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Telling stories wrong ; The comic-strip mouse / Gianni Rodari -- Toucans two ; The zebra / Jack Prelutsky -- He / Felix Salten -- The giraffe / Ron Padgett -- Veronica Ganz / Marilyn Sachs -- The eel ; The adventures of Isabel ; The parent ; The panther ; THe lama / Ogden Nash -- Salt / Arthur Ransome -- I left my head / Lilian Moore -- Blue moose / Manus Pinkwater -- Mrs. Peperpot to the rescue / Alf Proysen -- Order / Myra Cohn Livingston -- The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter -- Supermarket / Felice Holdman -- Smells ; The rock / Hugh Lofting -- Easy diver / Robert Froman -- How many donkeys? / Anon. -- Pippi moves into villa villekulla / Astrid Lindgren -- Colonel Fazackerley / Charles Causley -- McBroom tells a lie / Sid Fleischman -- The lamb ; The echoing green / William Blake -- Lucy looks into a wardrobe ; What Lucy found there / C.S. Lewis -- Explanations / Aliki Barnstone -- Augustus Gloop goes up the pipe / Roald Dahl -- What does the clock say? ; The cheetah, my dearest, is known not to cheat / George Barker -- Bruno and the mirror / Achim Broger -- Epitaphs / Anon. -- A meal with a magician / J.B.S. Haldane -- The giant crab / John Walsh -- Hugh Water at catfish bend / Ben Lucien Burman -- January ; September / John Updike -- The birthday bash / Judy Blume -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Pinocchio / Carlo Collodi -- When icicles hang by the wall / William Shakespeare -- Some adventures of Flat Stanley / Jeff Brown -- Arithmetic ; Auctioneer / Carl Sandburg -- The woman who always argued / Leila Berg -- The bat / Theodore Roethke -- The wizard of oz / L. Frank Baum -- Slowly / James Reeves -- Nuts / Natalie Babbitt -- Beds / Sylvia Plath -- The assistant pig-keeper / Lloyd Alexander -- This is my rock / David McCord -- Playing pilgrims / Louisa May Alcott -- Sea fevor ; Cargoes / John Masefield -- How a spider got a thin waist / Joyce Cooper Arkhurst -- Cat / Sinclair Lewis -- Charlotte / E.B. White -- Rules / Karla Kuskin -- The pinch-bug and his prey / Mark Twain -- Snail / Maxine W. Kumin -- The fugitives / Rosemary Suncliff -- There's this that I like abouthockey, my lad / John Kieran -- Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the miser / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- There was a naughty boy / John Keats -- The hobbit ; Cat / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The doughnuts / Robert McCloskey -- Bats / Randall Jarrell -- Tom's midnight garden / Philippa Pearce -- My uncle Dan / Ted Hughes -- A hike in New York City / Sam Levenson -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- Poor stainless / Mary Norton -- Foul shot / Edwin A. Hoey -- From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg -- I wish that my room had a floor / Gelett Burgess -- Rikki-tikki-tavi ; The way through the woods ; Six hinest servingmen / Rudyard Kipling -- Dinky Hocker shoots smack! / M.E. Kerr -- The pasture ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- The royal banquet / Norton Juster -- The song of the jellicles / T.S. Eliot -- The riverbank ; The song of Mr. Toad / Kenneth Grahame -- Julie of the wolves / Jean Craighead George -- Song of an unlucky man / Anon. -- The too-many professors / Norman Hunter -- Silver ; Bones ; Jim Jay / Walter De La Mare -- Harriet the spy / Louise Fitzhugh -- Doctor concocter / Kornei Chukovsky -- About Elizabeth Eliza's piano ; At dinner / Lucretia P. Hale -- All about boys and girls ; Warning / John Ciardi -- The storm / Walter Farley -- Shame / Malcolm Cragg -- The gormet government / William Pene Du Bois -- In just / E.E. Cummings -- The dog and the rooster / Meinbert DeJong -- Giddy liddy gandaway ; Today I found a secret / Palmer Brown -- The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke -- Nancy Hanks ; Daniel Boone ; Abigail Adams / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet -- A mad tea-party ; Father William ; The crocodile ; Beautiful soup ; Speak roughly to your little boy ; Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The incredible journey / Sheila Brunford -- Elenor Rigby / John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- The blanket / Francelia Butler -- The pedestrain / Ray Bradbury -- Two haiku / Basho -- Nothing / Godfried Bomans -- Elsa meets other wild animals / Joy Adamson -- The feeling of power / Isaac Asimov -- Lies / Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Call Number

JFF 87-1266

ISBN

• 0316273023
• 9780316273022
• 0316273031
• 9780316273039

LCCN

84014343

OCLC

10912487

Title

The World treasury of children's literature / selected and with commentary by Clifton Fadiman ; with additional illustrations by Leslie Morrill.

Imprint

Boston : Little, Brown, ©1984-©1985.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.

Morrill, Leslie H., ill.

Research Call Number

JFF 87-1266