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Classics of children's literature -- second edition

by John W. Griffith, Charles H. Frey, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll · 1987

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Presents some of the "masterpieces" of children's literature, including Mother Goose verses, fairy tales, works by Lear, Ruskin, Carroll, Twain, Stevenson, Baum, Grahame, Kipling, Dickens, Wilder, and more.

Genre
fantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of thisadventureadventureMore like thisLess of thisfairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of this
Themes
animalsanimalsMore like thisLess of thisbooks about booksbooks about booksMore like thisLess of thisfriendshipfriendshipMore like thisLess of thisimaginationimaginationMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
epic · 1305 pages

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