The Puffin Children’s Treasury: 200 stories and poemss selected – Clifton Fadiman

Description

London: Viking Kestrel, 1985. 1st (thus). Hardback navy cloth with dust wrapper. Tight and clean copy no inscriptions in pen. BOOK 1 & 2 IN SINGLE VOLUME

Selected and with commentary by Clifton Fadiman. With additional illustrations by Leslie Morrill. Foreword by Naomi Lewis. Lovely colour illustrations and, black-and-white illustrations Absolutely lovely. Contents: 629 pages very good and clean throughout.

This view of reading gives him a comprehensive and liberal approach which is refreshing and stimulating both to the child reader and to the adult reading aloud. His aim is preparing The Puffin Children’s Treasury has been to introduce children to as wide a variety of books as possible and thereby to inculate a love of reading which will last A LIFETIME.