The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury: Celebrated Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays)

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Garrett, August 25, 2011 (view all comments by Garrett)
This is the ideal book to use to read your children to sleep when they're at the stage when just one book won't do it. Instead of having to get up and choose another book, you can just flip a few pages and keep going. We used older books, like the Little House series, when just the sound of our voices was enough to put them out, but once they knew what they were listening to, this was invaluable.

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The Eager Readers, May 12, 2010 (view all comments by The Eager Readers)
The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury is a fantastic compilation of over forty fun children's books. From William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, this book is full of timeless favorites! We own over half of these forty-four picture books separately, but finding them combined into one very portable edition has been a delight. Our copy of this book has been hauled along on many car rides and trips to the park, and it is a perfect resource for bedtime stories.

What I Liked:
- It is great to find such an impressive assortment of excellent books contained within one volume! From H.A. Rey's Curious George to Janell Cannon's Stellaluna, this book has something for everyone. It is not a read-once-and-you're-done kind of book but a volume our children have pulled off the shelf year after year as their reading interests have grown and changed.
- Even if you have stand-alone editions of many of these picture books, this Treasury is a worthwhile investment for it's awesome portability and the exposure to all the stories you may not own. It is fun to find classic stories like Virginia Lee Burton's Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and Wanda Gag's Millions of Cats nestled among more recent favorites like Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault's Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom and Kevin Henkes's Owen.
- Not only are the stories wonderful, but this book is also a great way for children to glimpse a wide variety of illustrative styles. From the black & white charm of Robert McCloskey's drawings in Make Way for Ducklings to the beautiful stamp art of Leo Lionni's Swimmy and the creative collage work in Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day, this is a great book to show children a huge variety of illustrations.
- The stories in this book are each labeled with a color-coded symbol to indicate the approximate reading level for which they may be most appropriate, but I love that they are not sorted by reading level because that allows readers to try a bit of everything as they flip through the pages & encourages beginners to give more challenging stories a try by placing them right next to simpler ones.


What I Wished:
- I really like this book exactly as it is, but it is worth noting that in order to condense 44 books into a single 308 page volume, some of the illustrations have been reduced in size and/or combined into new page layouts. For example, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is a forty-eight page book in its original form, but it only takes up thirteen pages of the Treasury because the page layout is condensed. In my opinion, the illustrations are consistently presented in a way that reflects the text and is true to the original source material, but readers who expect the content to look precisely like each of the original books may be slightly disappointed . It is important to note that the text of each book is unabridged, with the two exceptions of Roger Duvoisin's Petunia and Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia (which are slightly abridged).

Whether you are looking for a great selection of classic children's picture books, trying to save on shelf space, or looking for an affordable way to add an awesome assortment of bedtime books to your collection, The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury will not disappoint. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a wonderful assortment of picture books or Caldecott Medal/Honor books (there are twelve in this Treasury). I would also recommend it to anyone who is searching for a nice, comprehensive children's book to give as a gift and to anyone who is looking for a fun book to keep their kids entertained on a long car trip.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780679886471

Selected:

Schulman, Janet

Editor:

Schulman, Janet

Selected by:

Schulman, Janet

Selected:

Schulman, Janet

Editor:

Boughton, Simon

Editor:

Schulman, Janet

Author:

Rey and others

Author:

Schulman, Janet

Author:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Editor:

Boughton, Simon

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Anthologies

Subject:

Short stories

Subject:

Children's stories

Subject:

Poetry - Nursery Rhymes

Subject:

Nursery rhymes

Subject:

Humorous Stories

Subject:

Fairy Tales & Folklore - Anthologies

Subject:

Children s-General

Copyright:

1998

Edition Description:

Paper Over Board

Series:

Treasured Gifts for the Holidays

Publication Date:

19980931

Binding:

HARDCOVER

Grade Level:

from K up to 3

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Full-color illustrations

Pages:

304

Dimensions:

10 x 10 in 1 lb

Age Level:

04-08