Best in Children's Books, Volume 17 ~1959~ inc. illus. by Ezra Jack Keats

Description: Very Good book in Good dust jacket. Pages very clean, crisp, uncreased, untorn, tightly-bound. Binding firm & sound. Cover boards clean with a few tiny dings. Dust jacket has light rubbed-in soil, light edgewear, spot at upper edges of front panel. A very clean, comfortable copy. CONTENTSBest in Children's Books, Volume 17 edited by Mary Macnab and Gladys Schwarcz. Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, New York. 1959. The contents of Volume 17 include The Magic Fishbone written by Charles Dickens and illustrated by Robin Jacques; Lightning: A Cowboy's Colt written by Bill and Bernard Martin and illustrated by Edward Shenton; The Story Book of Ships written by Maud and Miska Petersham and illustrated by Peter Spier; Old Mother Hubbard illustrated by Adrienne Adams; Drakesbill retold by James Baldwin and illustrated by Paul Galdone; The Jumblies written by Edward Lear and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats; Rosa-Too-Little written by Sue Felt and illustrated by Ninon; Butterflies and Moths of North America illustrated with color photographs; Daniel in the Lions' Den adapted by April Oursler Armstrong from "The Greatest Book Ever Written" by Fulton Oursler and illustrated by Aldren A. Watson; and Let's Visit Puerto Rico 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.

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