Collier's Junior Classics Volume 7

Legends of Long Ago

de Margaret E. Martignoni, Jane Darrah

Colliers Junior Classics is a series of ten individually indexed volumes of outstanding children's stories and poems compiled for enrichment reading by a distinguished editorial board of children's librarians Legends Of Long Ago Volume 7 of the Collier's Junior Classics - The Young Folks Shelf of Books. Is a selections of great myths, epics, and American tall tales. A, B, C: GO! has been lovingly compiled for the youngest, and consists of nursery rhymes, favorite folk tales, best-loved poems, and stories for reading aloud. Four volumes have been assembled for the intermediate group: Once Upon a Time, a wonderous collection of fables, world folk tales, and modern fairy tales; Magic in the Air, selections from great masterpieces of fantasy; Just Around the Corner, excerpts from warm-hearted stories of other lands; and In Your Own Backyard, selections from stirring books about our own country. Four additional volumes cater to the interests of more mature boys and girls: Gifts from the Past, memorable selections from world classics; Legends of Long Ago, selections from great myths, epics, and American tall tales; Roads to Greatness, excerpts from biographies of some of the greatest men and women of the world; and Call of Adventure, selections from action and suspense stories of today and yesterday. Finally, and most unusual of all, is the volume entitled Harvest of Holidays, a feast of stories, poems, documents, and factual material about twenty-two American national and religious holidays. Although perhaps of greatest interest to the intermediate group, Harvest of Holidays will intrigue and delight all ages.

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In Your Own Backyard

Harvest of holidays.

The illustrated treasury of children's literature. Edited and with an introd. by Margaret E. Martignoni. Compiled with the original illus. under the direction of P. Edward Ernest. Staff editors