An Illustrated Treasury of Read-Aloud Classics for Young People: Ten-Minute Selections from the World's Best-Loved Books for Parent and Child to Shar

An Illustrated Treasury of Read-Aloud Classics for Young People: Ten-Minute Selections from the World's Best-Loved Books for Parent and Child to Share includes selections brief enough to cover before bedtime and whet the appetite for more. Vintage illustrations bring to life excerpts from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl; The Call of the Wild by Jack London; a handful of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories; and the scene in which the fox meets The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exup ry, to name a few. In the same series, An Illustrated Treasury of Read-Aloud Poems for Young People gathers more than 100 poems, nursery rhymes and songs, including ""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"" by Robert Browning, ""Jabberwocky"" by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear's ""The Owl and the Pussycat,"" and ""Caged Bird"" by Maya Angelou.