The Greatest Children's Classics Of All Time
A Golden Age Treasury of Fairy Tales, Talking Animals, Enchanted Adventures, and Timeless FablesBy Beatrix Potter, E. Nesbit, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Howard R. Garis, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, Carlo Collodi, George Haven Putnam, Johanna Spyri, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emerson Hough, Eleanor H. Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Dorothy Canfield, Susan Coolidge, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mark Twain, R. L. Stevenson, John Meade Falkner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Jonathan Swift, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna Sewell, Jack London, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Howard Pyle, Marion St. John Webb, Jules Verne, Eva March Tappan, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome
Length780h 42m
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The Greatest Children's Classics Of All Time gathers a capacious international tradition of writing for young readers: fairy tale, fable, fantasy, animal story, domestic fiction, adventure, travel narrative, and moral allegory. Its range extends from ancient didactic tales and European wonder stories to Victorian and early twentieth-century imaginative fiction, allowing enchantment, satire, peril, and ethical reflection to coexist. Memorable worlds of talking animals, secret gardens, improbable voyages, and transformational quests reveal how children's literature has continually negotiated curiosity, courage, social belonging, and the relation between fantasy and everyday life. The contributors represent a remarkable genealogy of storytellers, translators, folkloric preservers, novelists, and illustrators whose work shaped the modern children's canon. Folklore associated with Aesop, Vishnu Sharma, Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm meets the inventive literary fairy tale, while writers of adventure, realism, and fantasy bring distinct national and historical contexts into conversation. Together, these voices trace the emergence of childhood as a serious literary subject, informed by Romantic wonder, Victorian moral debate, imperial travel writing, and the expanding popular culture of the twentieth century. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking both pleasure and perspective. It offers an inviting comparative education in narrative form and cultural inheritance, encouraging readers to discern correspondences and tensions among tales of imagination, instruction, freedom, and responsibility. Its breadth makes it ideal for classrooms, families, and anyone wishing to encounter children's literature as a vibrant, multivocal tradition.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length780 hrs 42 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHILDHOOD CLASSICS - Ultimate Collection: 1400+ Tales of Magic, Adventure, Fairytales & Legends
2The Greatest Children’s Classics Of All Time
3Dragon Tales
4My Father's Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett)
5The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Grahame)
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6The Book of Dragons (E. Nesbit):
7The Book of Beasts
8Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger
9The Deliverers of Their Country
10The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told
11The Island of the Nine Whirlpools
12The Dragon Tamers
13The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold
14Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice
15Animal Tales & Fables
16The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)
17The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter)
18The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter)
19The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)
20The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)
21Mother West Wind Series (Thornton Burgess)
22The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
23Chapter I. Jenny Wren Arrives.
24Chapter II. The Old Orchard Bully.
25Chapter VI. An Old Friend In a New Home.
26Chapter IX. Longbill and Teeter.
27Chapter X. Redwing and Yellow Wing.
28Chapter XI. Drummers and Carpenters.
29Chapter XII. Some Unlikely Relatives.
30Chapter XV. A Swallow and One Who Isn't.
31Chapter XVII. More Robbers.
32Chapter XX. A Fisherman Robbed.
33Chapter XXI. A Fishing Party.
34Chapter XXII. Some Feathered Diggers.
35Chapter XXIII. Some Big Mouths.
36Chapter XXIV. The Warblers Arrive.
37Chapter XXV. Three Cousins Quite Unlike.
38Chapter XXVI. Peter Gets a Lame Neck.
39Chapter XXIX. The Constant Singers.
40Chapter XXX. Jenny Wren's Cousins.
41Chapter XXXI. Voices of the Dusk.
42Chapter XXXV. A Butcher and a Hummer.
43Chapter XXXVI. A Stranger and a Dandy.
44Chapter XXXVII. Farewells and Welcomes.
45Chapter XL. Some Merry Seed-Eaters.
46Chapter XLIV. More Folks in Red.
47The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
48Chapter I Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
49Chapter II Peter and Jumper go to School
50Chapter III More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins
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