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A Treasury of Children's Literature

by Armand Eisen · 1992

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This one-volume library of classic children's literature contains nursery rhymes, poems, fables, and stories, and is lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred full-color drawings by sixteen different artists.

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childrenspicture books
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medium · 304 pages
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