The Wonder Book of Stories & Poems.
Hardcover, preloved vintage book with dust jacket.
Stories by: A. A. Milne Lewis Carroll
Kenneth Grahame Robert Browning
Hans Andersen John Masefield
Arthur Ransome P. L. Travers and many other famous authors and poets
The Wonder Book of Stories and Poems is a glorious collection which has been carefully chosen to give years of lasting pleasure to children of all ages. Each story and verse has been selected to take children into the enchanting story world of Eleanor Farjeon, the Brothers Grimm, John Masefield, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Norton, Erich Kästner, Enid Bagnold, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kenneth Grahame, Hans Andersen, Rosemary Sutcliff, E. Nesbit, Arthur Ransome, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerald Durrell, R. M. Ballantyne, Mark Twain, Rider Haggard, Patricia Lynch, Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas. Here they meet old friends like Pooh and Piglet, Alice, Black Beauty, Pinocchio, Heidi, Dr. Dolittle, Mary Poppins, Mr. Pickwick and many, many more. The original illustrations have been retained where possible, so that young readers can recognise and love the work of Arthur Rackham, Ernest Shepard, Hugh Lofting, Charles Mortimer and many more childhood favourites, while all the new illustrations have been commissioned from among the best of today's artists.
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