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THE MACMILLAN CHILDREN'S CLASSICS

With ages recommended for first reading

The Fables of Esop

Edited by Joseph Jacobs

Ill. by Richard Heighway (4-6)

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Fairy Tales and Stories

Edited by Francis Hackett and
Signe Toksvig

Ill. by Eric Pape (8-10)

The Arabian Nights

Edited by Padraic Colum
Ill. by Éric Pape (12-15)

FRANCES BROWNE

Granny's Wonderful Chair

Ill. by Emma Brock (8-10)

LEWIS CARROLL

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Ill. by John Tenniel (8-10)

RICHARD HENRY DANA
Two Years Before the Mast

Ill. by Charles Pears (12-15)

DANIEL DEFOE

Robinson Crusoe

Ill. by Williamson (10-14)

CHARLES DICKENS

A Christmas Carol

Ill. by Francis D. Bedford (10-12)

English Fairy Tales

Retold by F. A. Steele

Ill. by Arthur Rackham (4-6)

THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Household Tales

Translated by Lucy Crane
Ill. by Walter Crane (6-8)
HOMER

The Iliad for Boys and Girls
Retold by Rev. A. J. Church
Ill. after Flaxman (8-10)

CHARLES AND MARY LAMB

Tales from Shakespeare

Ill. by Maud and Miska Petersham (10-12)

GEORGE MACDONALD

At the Back of the North Wind
Ill. by Francis Bedford (10-12)

HARRIET MARTINEAU

Feats on the Fiord

Ill. by Artzybasheff (12-15)

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
Edited by Edna Walter

Ill. by Charles Folkard (4-6)

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Treasure Island

Ill. by Warwick Goble (10-12)

JONATHAN SWIFT

Gulliver's Travels

Ill. by Charles Brock (12-15) LUCY THACHER

The Listening Child

Ill. by Nancy Barnhart (8-10) Other important titles preparing

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THE LISTENING CHILD

A Selection from the Stores of English Verse
Made for the Youngest Readers

and Hearers

BY

LUCY W. THACHER

An introductory note by

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

A new section of modern verse chosen by
MARGUERITE WILKINSON

Illustrations by
NANCY BARNHART

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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EDUC.-

PSYCH.

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