Fifty Famous Stories Retold

by James Baldwin

Book Overview

Fifty Famous Stories Retold (1895), the classic collection of lore recounted by James Baldwin, serves as an early foundation for the love of literature. This volume was widely used in the United States public school system as a primer of many of the most enduring stories of Western culture. What all these stories share is their indelible mark in the worlds of letters, art, music, and drama; while these are the elemental blocks for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1513220594
• ISBN13: 9781513220598
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

50 little slices of history

We use this book with our Ambleside online homeschool curriculum. My kids enjoy them. The book is comprised of individual stories from long ago. They are short stories that require less than 10 minutes a piece to read. I had never heard of any of these, but each one is a little slice of history. I'm glad to keep stories like this alive by reading aloud to my kids.