Best in Children's Books, Volume 10A
Eric Knight, Margery Bianco and Marjory Collison, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Mary Macnab, Phoebe Erickson
Hardcover
(Nelson Doubleday, March 15, 1963)
Best in Children's Books, Volume 10A edited by Mary Macnab and Gladys Schwarcz. Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, New York.1963. The contents of Volume 10A include Lassie Come-Home written by Eric Knight and illustrated by Phoebe Erickson; The Story of William Tell edited by James Baldwin and illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith; Penny and the White Horse written by Margery Bianco and Marjory Collison and illustrated by Janina Domanska; Rumpelstiltskin written by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and illustrated by Fritz Kredel; The Three Little Pigs edited by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by Richard Scarry; The Poppy Seed Cakes written by Margery Clark and illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham; Peanuts Are Not Nuts and Other Surprising Facts by written by Robert L. Ripley; The Sounds We Hear written by Gerald S. Craig and Beatrice Davis Hurley and illustrated by Jack Keats; Rhymes to Learn By illustrated by Harvey Weiss; Animals of Africa with color photographs; Fern and Wilbur, an adventure from Charlotte's Web, written by E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; Theodore Roosevelt, "Rough Rider" President written by Smith Burnham and illustrated by Ray Houlihan; and Let's Visit Spain. Best in Children's Books was a reading program for youngsters, for which a staff of experts assembled each month a collection of the world's best children's literature, old and new. These volumes, richly illustrated in color by famous artists, are packed from cover to cover with full-length books, poetry, historical adventures, games, fairy tales, nature, science and geography sections -- a wide variety of wholesome reading.