The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud

Author - Janet Schulman ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Knopf Books for Young Readers was reviewed on 26-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This is one of the best purchases i made. you do compromise on the pictures. because there so compressed. But, other than that, It´s a def. for your kids library.¤

2) Hardcover Book The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This is truly a wonderful collection of classic children stories if you want to have great variety but have space or money issues. As another reviewer stated, it´s ideal for travel or to explore new children stories and decide which ones to buy in a separate and full edition.

However it´s a pity that because of a space issue, they have decided to leave out some pictures. Also, I have seen other anthologies (e.g. Your favorite Seuss: A baker´s dozen by the one and only Dr. Seuss) that have managed to join in one page spread several pictures of a storybook in a more coherent way... Here, in some of the stories they have done it nicely, in others (e.g. Good Night Moon) they have just pasted into a page spread several pages of the book in very small detail. It´s a pity that they couldn´t make the book a bit bigger and longer to include the pictures in greater detail, or that they didn´t edit two separate volumes so that they could fit the stories better.

As a plus, the stories are color-coded and cover a great variety of age-ranges, so it´s still a great travel book if you have children of very different ages.

All this said, this is still a great way of getting to know a big selection of children´s classics. In my case, I don´t live in an English-speaking country, so I have to deliver children books for my kid via air-mail and it would be impossible to get these many books in their individual editions, so I´m very grateful to the Editor for making this excellent collection of children stories readily available for everyone.
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3) Hardcover Book The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book is an uncanny collection of most of our favorite children´s stories that we have collected over the years plus many more we had not yet discovered. It´s a great collection. The only downside of the collection is that the stories are displayed with several of the original "pages" per page which is distracting to young readers. They see the pictures from many pages at once while the parent tries to read the through the words left to right.¤

4) Hardcover Book The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud by Knopf Books for Young Readers. I received this book as a gift when my boys were 17 months old and 1 month old. The are now 2 and 3, and we still read from this book just about every day. The Table of Contents suggests age groups for each story, but I have found that my kids are pretty much up for any of them, even at a young age. This time I purchased it as a gift for someone else, and if Amazon continues to offer amazing prices on it ($27 instead of $40 at major bookstore) then I will buy it for everyone I know that has a child. It´s one that your kids will never tire of (just keep it out of reach to keep in good condition, as they will want to flip through the picures on their own...).¤

5) Hardcover Book The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud by Knopf Books for Young Readers. What is more comforting to a child than being curled up in bed and having Mummy or Daddy reading a good story -- big story books are pages full of magic!¤

6) Hardcover Book The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud by Knopf Books for Young Readers. In the eight years since this blockbuster anthology of 44 classic picture books of the 20th century was compiled, important new picture books have been published that Janet Schulman believes are too good to miss. She has selected 15–some by brand-new voices of the 21st century, some by young authors and illustrators who were just getting started during the last decade of the past century, and a few by familiar names, such as Kevin Henkes with his 2005 Caldecott Medal Winner. This recommended list with descriptive annotations is intended to guide parents to these new books and new voices of the 21st century.

Unparalleled in scope and quality and designed for reading aloud and sharing, this splendid anthology brings together some of the most memorable and beloved children´s books of our time. Here are classics such as Madeline and Curious George; contemporary bestsellers such as Guess How Much I Love You and The Stinky Cheese Man; Caldecott Medal winners such as Make Way for Ducklings and Where the Wild Things Are; and family favorites such as Goodnight Moon, The Sneetches, and Winnie-the-Pooh. The selections range from concept books and wordless books to picture books and short read-aloud stories, and represent the complete array of childhood themes and reading needs: ABCs, number and color books, stories about going to bed and going to school; tales about growing up, siblings, parents, and grandparents; animal stories, fantasies; fables; magical stories; stories about everyday life--and more. Also included are an introduction, capsule biographies of the 62 writers and artists represented in the collection, color-coded running heads indicating age levels, and indexes. As a gift, a keepsake, and a companion in a child´s first steps toward a lifelong love of reading, The 20th Century Children´s Book Treasury belongs in every family´s bookcase.¤

7) Hardcover Book The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud by Knopf Books for Young Readers. Believe it or not, 44 complete read-aloud classics and future classics--from Goodnight Moon to Stellaluna--are packed in this remarkably svelte, positively historic anthology. Flipping through the 308 pages of The 20th-Century Children´s Book Treasury is like browsing a photo album of beloved friends and family. The familiar faces of Curious George and Ferdinand the Bull peer earnestly from the pages, and scenes from Madeline and Millions of Cats resonate as if you just experienced them yesterday. Think of the advantages of carrying this book on a vacation instead of a suitcase of single titles! (Your kids can always revisit their dog-eared hardcovers when they get home.)

This impressive collection of concept books, wordless books, picture books, and read-aloud stories was artfully compiled by longtime children´s book editor and publisher Janet Schulman. Stories are coded red, blue, and green to designate age groupings from baby/toddler books such as Whose Mouse Are You?, through preschool books such as Where the Wild Things Are, to longer stories for ages 5 and older such as Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. The reason the book isn´t bigger than Babar is because many of the illustrations from each story were reduced or removed to fit the anthology´s format. (Leo Lionni´s Swimmy, for example, takes up 5 pages total, compared to its original 29 pages.) Brief biographical notes that are surprisingly quirky shine a little light on the 62 authors and illustrators, and an index helps, too, for the child who likes one story best. We love the idea of being within easy reach of a Star-Belly Sneetch, a William Steig donkey, and a Sendak monster at all times, and we´re sure your little bookworms will, too. (Click to see a sample spread from The 20th-Century Children´s Book Treasury, compilation copyright © 1998 by Janet Schulman, illustrations © renewed 1997 by William Steig.) (All ages) --Karin Snelson¤

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