"What would young life be without "Puss in Boots" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Sleeping Beauty"? Our Treasury would indeed be poor without them, so these Favorite Stories come next, yoked with some Old-Fashioned Poems in story-form, as "The Night before Christmas," "The Wonderful World," and "Little Orphant Annie." All who love pets and animals have always liked Fables, so here are the noted parables of Aesop, and the lesser-known but even more jolly tales from East Indian sources.
The fairy-tale age is supposed to come from four to nine, but the editors are sure it lasts much longer than that. However this may be, the better half of our first volume is given up to Fairy Tales and Laughter Stories from all over the world.
It ends with Tales for Tiny Tots, the kind that mother reads beside the fire at bedtime, some of them old, like the "Little Red Hen" and "Peter Rabbit," and some of them newer, like "The Greedy Brownie" and "The Birthday Honors of the Fairy Queen." - INTRODUCTION
CHILDREN'S FAVORITE STORIES
Hansel and Gretel
The Fair Catherine and Pif-Paf Poltrie
The Wolf and the Fox
Descreet Hans
Puss in Boots
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Hans in Luck
Master of All Masters
Belling the Cat
Little Red Riding-Hood
The Nail
Jack and the Beanstalk
How to Tell a True Princess
The Sleeping Beauty
CHILDREN'S FAVORITE POEMS
The Three Children
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat—Edward Lear
Kindness to Animals
How Doth the Little Busy Bee—Isaac Watts
Suppose—Phoebe Cary
Twinkle, Twinkle
Pretty Cow—Jane Taylor
The Three Little Kittens—Eliza Lee Follen
The Land of Counterpane—Robert Louis Stevenson
There was a Little Girl—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Boy who never Told a Lie
etc.
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