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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wonder Book National Hawthorne, November 18, 2008
In the 1960's, Grosset and Dunlap of New York came out with a Companion Library Series of Books. These sweet hardbacks, designed for Children, came in matching covers, bound in a way that they were beautiful on a bookshelf. If you buy this book, you may be very inclined to begin to collect the rest of the series which included: The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Aesops' Fables, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Andersen's Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, Black Beauty, The Call of the Wild, A Dog of Flanders and Other Stories, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Grimms Fairy Tales, Gulliver's Travels, Hans Brinker, Heidi, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kidnapped, The Little Lame Prince, Little Men, Little Women, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Prince and The Pauper, Robinson Crusoe, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The Swiss Family Robinson, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, Treasure Island, and finally, The Wizard of Oz. 30 in all.
This book itself contains the following myths and legends:
The Gorgon's Head
The Golden Touch
The Paradise of Children
The Three Golden Apples
The Miraculous Pitcher
The Chimaera
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