The Puffin Book of Classic Children's Stories

by Humphrey Carpenter

Book Overview

This anthology introduces children to the children's classics from Anne of Green Gables to a Christmas Carol, offering them an opportunity to use the extracts as a guide to which classics they would... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670853119
• ISBN13: 9780670853113
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A good sampler

I picked this up at my university library to inform my classic children's library purchases - it was not disappointing. It contains well chosen extracts from 37 well known classic stories such as the wind in the willows, black beauty, the call of the wild and a Christmas carol. My only gripe is that the introduction by Humphrey Carpenter is not enough - I would have liked to see an introduction to each extract or perhaps some sort of categorization into adventure, fable or younger readers. Overall the selection is good and the extracts long enough to get a feel for the full text.