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Anthologies
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by a compiler. Here are the top 500 anthologies from the whole heritage of children’s literature.
Cinderella Picture Book (1897)
An omnibus containing Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Valentine and Orson. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Classic Fairy Tales (1974)
Twenty-four of the best-know fairy tales, as they were first printed in English, along with much information on the early editions, all accompanied with classic illustrations.
Classic Tales of Babar (2014)
This anthology includes The Story of Babar and Babar the King.
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 1 (1962)
This collection includes nursery rhymes, folk tales, favorite poems and nearly two dozen pictures books in somewhat condensed form.
Author(s):
Margery Bianco, Claire Bishop, Margaret Brown, Wanda Gág, Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham, Louis Slobodkin, Et al
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott, Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham, Louis Slobodkin, Tasha Tudor, Et al
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 10 (1962)
Eighteen selections from classic novels.
Author(s):
Louisa Alcott, Jane Austen, Washington Irving, Walter Scott, Jonathan Swift, Et al, James Cooper, Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson, James Daugherty, Louis Slobodkin, Hilda van Stockum, Kurt Wiese, Et al, Willy Pogány
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 2 (1962)
This collection includes fables, folk tales, and fairy tales.
Author(s):
Hans Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Perrault, Howard Pyle, Ruth Sawyer, Joseph Jacobs, Et al, Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Roger Duvoisin, Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham, Et al, Irwin Greenberg
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 3 (1962)
This collection includes fables, folk tales, and fairy tales.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie, John Ruskin, William du Bois, Walter Brooks, Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, George MacDonald, A. A. Milne, Mary Norton, Et al
Illustrator(s):
William du Bois, Kurt Wiese, Joe Krush, Beth Krush, Et al, Ernest Shepard, Nora Unwin, Ruth Gannett, John Tenniel
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 4 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in different countries.
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong, Marie McSwigan, Lucy Montgomery, Hilda van Stockum, Edith Unnerstad, Et al, Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak, Louis Slobodkin, Kurt Wiese, Et al, Mary Reardon
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 5 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in America.
Author(s):
Laura Wilder, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Elizabeth Enright, Eleanor Estes, Robert McCloskey, Keith Robertson, Et al, Sydney Taylor, Rachel Field
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams, Elizabeth Enright, Robert McCloskey, Helen Sewell, Louis Slobodkin, Et al
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 6 (1962)
Through the year in poetry, prose, history and fiction centered on the holidays of America.
Author(s):
Emily Dickinson, Eugene Field, Maud Lovelace, Et al, Henry Longfellow, Stephen Benet, Joyce Kilmer
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack, Dorothy Lathrop, Edgar d’Aulaire, Et al, Ruth Gannett, Reisie Lonette, Valenti Angelo
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 7 (1962)
A collection of myths, epics and tall tales.
Author(s):
Pádraic Colum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Hamilton, Anne Malcolmson, Thomas Bulfinch, Et al, James Bowman
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon, Walter Crane, Robert McCloskey, Glen Rounds, Et al, Fritz Eichenberg
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 8 (1962)
Twenty-one brief biographies, chiefly of Americans.
Author(s):
Et al, Mark Twain, Clara Judson, Jean Latham, Helen Keller
Illustrator(s):
Boris Artzybasheff, Lynd Ward, Et al, John Cosgrave, II
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 9 (1962)
Seventeen selections from adventure novels.
Author(s):
Carol Brink, Esther Forbes, Robert Heinlein, Howard Pyle, Kate Seredy, Armstrong Sperry, John Tunis, Katharine Pyle, Eric Knight, Charles Hawes
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy, Lynd Ward, Kurt Wiese, Et al, Valenti Angelo, Katharine Pyle
The Colophon: Part Fourteen (1933)
A periodical devoted to the book arts. Individual sections were produced by different fine printers.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Marie Lawson
Come Hither Volume I and II (1973)
A very large collection of poetry, here printed in two paperback volumes. The covers are illustrated by Erik Blegvad, as is the slipcase for the two volumes.
Read Volume I online at archive.org.
Read Volume II online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad, Diana Bloomfield
Come One, Come All (1991)
An anthology which is part of the ‘Reading, the Literature Experience’ series.
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg, Tomie dePaola, Eve Bunting, Et al
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg, Tomie dePaola, Et al
The Compleat Imbiber 9: An Entertainment (1975)
An anthology of drink, with a dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Eric Linklater, Margery Sharp, Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone, Et al
The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers (1967)
All four of the original Borrowers books are included in this collection.
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush, Beth Krush
The Complete Book of Dragons (1972)
A ninth story ‘The Last of the Dragons’ is added for this collection.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Complete Book of Dragons (1973)
A ninth story ‘The Last of the Dragons’ is included in this collection.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad