![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() International in scope, covering countless countries, and handsomely illustrated (often with the original art), the 140 selections in The World Treasury of Children's Literature represent the finest traditional and modern favorites. Clifton Fadiman can remember to this day the wonder that he felt as a child when he opened a book and found "a surprise package stuffed with things I had no idea ever existed." Fadiman's lifelong love affair with books, which began at the age of four, is evident in this splendid anthology, which gives young children-and adults who can still summon up the child in themselves-a chance to explore the riches of books that will entertain, amuse, sadden, delight, mystify, and astonish. ![]()
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