Thursday, April 30, 2009

10 Books A Day: #11


The World Treasury Of Children's Literature, Vols. I, II, & III...ed. Clifton Fadiman...Little, Brown
The Random House Children's Treasury: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, And Nonsense Verse...ed. Alice Mills...Derrydale Books
The Complete Nonsense Books Of Edward Lear...Edward Lear...Castle Books
The Complete Tales Of Uncle Remus...Joel Chandler Harris...Houghton Mifflin Co.
100 Story Poems...selected by Elinor Parker...Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Indian Fairy Tales...Joseph Jacobs...G. P. Putnam's Sons
The Arabian Nights...ill. Earle Goodenow...Illustrated Junior Library
English Fairy Tales...Joseph Jacobs...Dover
The Oxford Book Of Carols...ed. Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw...Oxford University Press
Many children's stories and fairy tales today. The picture above is from English Fairy Tales, and shows the King of Elfland in the Dark Tower menacing Childe Rowland and his sister Burd Ellen. This story is referenced in King Lear, in one of the Fool's songs. An interesting thing I learned in the book of carols is that this type of song was not only for Christmas; there are Easter, summer, and harvest carols as well.

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