Description: Best in Children's Books, Volume 18 "Let's Visit The Belgian Congo" This is an early printing because it includes "Let's Visit the Belgian Congo". In later printings, this was replaced with "Let's go to Israel". Very Good - Pages very clean, crisp, uncreased, untorn, age tanned. No writing or any other markings. Cover boards basically clean but do hae some smudged areas with light rubbed in soil. Lower corners bumpted. Duast jacket clean but age tanned, slightly edgeworn, chipped upper & lower spine. Some small tears & paper loss to back panel. Spine heavily age tanned. Best in Children's Books, Volume 18 edited by Mary Macnab and Gladys Schwarcz. Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, New York. 1959. The contents of Volume 18 include The Land of Storybooks written by Robert Louis Stevenson and illustrated by Ruth Ives; Beauty and the Beast retold by Hamilton Wright Mabie and illustrated by Colleen Browning; George Washington written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire; Angus and the Ducks written by Marjorie Flack with original drawings by Marjorie Flack adapted by Leonard Kessler; Five Favorite Fables adapted from Aesop and illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; Raggedy Andy Meets Raggedy Ann, selections from "Raggedy Andy Stories" written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle; City Boy, Country Boy written by Miriam Schlein and illustrated by Leonard Kessler; Keeping Our Wildlife Safe with color photographs; Be a Magician written by Bill and Sue Severn and illustrated by Susan Perls; This Amazing Planet: Earth written by Jane Sherman and illustrated by George Giusti; and Let's Visit the Belgian Congo with color photographs and an illustrative map. The final story, Let's Visit the Belgian Congo, was replaced by Let's Visit Israel in later printings. The replacement story is indicated on the back cover of the book, in the Table of Contents on the front and back end papers, and at the foot of the rear dust jacket flap; otherwise, the two books are identical. Best in Children's Books was a reading program for youngsters, for which a staff of experts assembled each month a collection of the world's best children's literature, old and new. These volumes, richly illustrated in color by famous artists, are packed from cover to cover with full-length books, poetry, historical adventures, games, fairy tales, nature, science and geography sections -- a wide variety of wholesome reading.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Author: various
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday
Topic: Fairy Tales & Fantasy
Subject: Children's
