The 20th century children's book treasury : celebrated picture books and stories to read aloud / selected by Janet Schulman.

Title :

The 20th century children's book treasury : celebrated picture books and stories to read aloud

Format:

Books

Summary:

A collection of picture book stories by such authors as Ludwig Bemelmans, Ezra Jack Keats, and Maurice Sendak.

Language:

English

ISBN - ISSN:

0679886478

Physical Description:

308 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Contents:

Madeline / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Chicka chicka boom boom / Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault -- Swimmy / Leo Lionni -- A chair for my mother / Vera B. Williams -- Goodnight moon / Margaret Wise Brown -- Snowy day / Ezra Jack Keats -- "The letter" from Frog and Toad are friends / Arnold Lobel -- Freight train / Donald Crews -- Make way for ducklings / Robert McCloskey -- A million fish ... more or less / Patricia C. McKissack -- A boy, a dog and a frog / Mercer Mayer -- Millions of cats / Wanda Gag -- Guess how much I love you / Sam McBratney -- Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day / Judith Viorst -- Curious George / H.A. Rey -- I hear, I see, I touch / Helen Oxenbury -- Miss Nelson is missing! / Harry Allard -- Titch / Pat Hutchins -- Where the wild things are / Maurice Sendak -- "The cat club" from Jenny and the cat club / Esther Averill -- Sylvester and the magic pebble / William Steig -- Good night, gorilla / Peggy Rathmann -- Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel / Virginia Lee Burton -- Stevie / John Steptoe -- Tub people / Pam Conrad -- "In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place" from Winnie-the-Pooh / A.A. Milne -- Bedtime for Frances / Russell Hoban -- "Stinky cheese man" from The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales / Jon Scieska -- Story of Babar / Jean de Brunhoff -- Berenstain bears and the spooky old tree / Stan and Jan Berenstain -- "Elves in the shelves" from A necklace of raindrops / Joan Aiken -- Ten, nine, eight / Molly Bang -- Stellaluna / Janell Cannon -- D.W. the picky eater / Marc Brown -- Petunia / Ruger Duvoisin -- First tomato / Rosemary Wells -- Amelia Bedelia / Peggy Parish -- I am a bunny / Ole Risom -- Harry the dirty dog / Gene Zion -- Whose mouse are you? / Robert Kraus -- Owen / Kevin Henkes -- Story of Ferdinand / Munro Leaf -- "Sneetches" from The sneetches and other stories / Dr. Seuss -- Story of little Babaji / Helen Bannerman.

Subject:

Children's stories.

Short stories.

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Summary

Unparalleled in scope and quality and designed for reading aloud and sharing, this splendid anthology brings together some of the most memorable and beloved children's books of our time. Here are classics such as Madeline and Curious George ; contemporary bestsellers such as Guess How Much I Love You and The Stinky Cheese Man ; Caldecott Medal winners such as Make Way for Ducklings and Where the Wild Things Are ; and family favorites such as Goodnight Moon , The Sneetches , Winnie-the-Pooh , and Alexander & The Terrible, No Good Very Bad Day , soon to be a motion picture.

The selections range from concept books and wordless books to picture books and short read-aloud stories, and represent the complete array of childhood themes and reading needs: ABCs, number and color books, stories about going to bed and going to school; tales about growing up, siblings, parents, and grandparents; animal stories, fantasies; fables; magical stories; stories about everyday life--and more.

This beautiful edition includes a recommended list of books published in the time since this anthology's original compilation, including Caldecott Honors Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and Olivia , with descriptive annotations intended to guide parents to these new books and new voices of the 21st century. Also included are an introduction from editor Janet Schulman, capsule biographies of the 62 writers and artists represented in the collection, color-coded running heads indicating age levels, and indexes. As a gift, a keepsake, and a companion in a child's first steps toward a lifelong love of reading, The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury belongs in every family's bookcase.

Author Notes

Janet Schulman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 16, 1933. She graduated from Antioch College in 1956. She started her publishing career in 1959 at Macmillan, where she became the director of children's book marketing. She then worked for more than 30 years at Random House, where she was the last editor there to edit Dr. Seuss. She fought for equality for women in publishing. She also wrote numerous children's books including Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City, The Nutcracker, Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, A Bunny for All Seasons, and 10 Easter Egg Hunters: A Holiday Counting Book. She died of complications from lung cancer on February 11, 2011 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 4-Forty-four selections fill this shiny, heavy compendium, gathered to encourage parents to develop the reading-aloud habit. Most are well-known picture books, but there is a short story by Joan Aiken, a chapter from Winnie the Pooh, and stories from books in beginning-to-read series. Goodnight Moon, a small set of Helen Oxenbury's board books, a Berenstain Bears entry, and other short pieces for the very youngest children are mixed with Stellaluna, The Stinky Cheese Man, Madeline, and older and newer favorites quite disparate in size and design. Some appear in spacious spreads, similar to their original formats. Others are compressed with great chunks of text and few pictures or several pages of the original full-length version stacked on a single page, diminishing details, colors, or the delicious moments of humor, drama, or innuendo. Gone are most of the illustrations for Millions of Cats, and Richard Egielski's Tub People have lost their unique patina and pose in these minuscule renderings. Though much is lost in the translation, the treasury does indeed offer an eclectic variety of good stories, and many children might encounter new favorites here. Concluding biographical notes on the authors and illustrators, a listing of the stories by three age categories, an index, and acknowledgments of original publication details complete the package.-Margaret Bush, Simmons College, Boston (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Horn Book Review

(Preschool, Younger) Although the introduction (a ""Note to Parents"") to this anthology of forty-four picture books and stories proudly notes that ""with two exceptions...all of the selections include the entire original text,"" it remains conspicuously silent on the subject of the pictures. Many of them have gone missing-two-thirds of those in Make Way for Ducklings, for example-while others may wish they had, such as those from Helen Oxenbury's board books I Hear, I See, and I Touch, each book cut and pasted to fit on a single page that would feel right at home in a reading workbook. Of the selections, ranging from The Story of Ferdinand to-less definitively-D. W. the Picky Eater, the only ones that survive in this new soil are a chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh and a short story by Joan Aiken, as neither was a picture book in the first place. For those that were, the page-turns that define picture-book narrative control are gone, making hash of some selections (Goodnight Moon) and sucking all the drama out of others (The Tub People). Madeline is massacred, sometimes four pictures to the page; Millions of Cats has cats and kittens hardly anywhere; and Miss Nelson Is Missing more than she knows. Where the Wild Things Are, presented via two double-spreads from the original picture book across each double-spread here, loses art in the gutter, balance in the picture-sizing, and Sendak's perfect, final, pictureless page. Still hot, it's not. r.s. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Ages 3^-8. Like The Candlewick Book of Bedtime Stories (1995), this anthology of picture books is for parents, and it's a quick reference for librarians and storytellers. Editor Schulman knows and loves children's books, and she has chosen 44 landmark titles and provided a fine introduction for parents and biographical notes on each author and artist. The extra large size volume has thick paper and lots of space. The problem is that picture books are not short stories. Their illustrations are not just decorative additions. They are integral to the story, and when they are reduced and rearranged, the individual book's essential rhythm and drama are lost. Even with the fine reproductions from the classic Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the smaller size of the pictures totally tames those crosshatched beasts. And where's the surprise of turning each page and finding a changed world? What's the point of reducing Wanda Gag's Millions of Cats (1928) to three pages of solid text with just four pictures? How can Shirley Hughes' simple board books be shared with toddlers when there are lots of small pictures on one page? However, the choices are excellent, and this is a fine introduction for those new to children's books to browse before they find the original picture books in the library and ask for more. --Hazel Rochman