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Best in Children's Books, Volume 19A edited by Mary Macnab and Gladys Schwarcz. Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, New York. 1967. The contents of Volume 19A include Flipper to the Rescue written by Richard Hardwick and illustrated with drawings by H. B. Vestal and full-color photographs; The Post Captain: Sir Peter Bombazoo written by Charles Edward Carryl and illustrated by Robin Jacques; Bluebonnets for Lucinda written by Frances Clarke Sayers and illustrated by Polly Jackson; Mr. A and Mr. P written by Margery Williams Bianco and illustrated by Grace Paull; When the Root Children Wake Up written by Helen Dean Fish and illustrated by Aldren A. Watson; Rufus Moffat's First Day of School written by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Phyllis Rowand; I Want to Be an Animal Doctor written by Carla Greene and illustrated by Paul Galdone; Shells of Land and Sea illustrated with color photographs; How Morse Sent Letters by Lightning written by Smith Burnham and illustrated by Ray Houlihan; Hunt for Unburied Treasure written by Hal Burton and illustrated by Peter Spier; and Let's Visit Canada with color photographs and an illustrative map. 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.

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.