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The Children’s Hour Volume 4

(Caravan of Fun)

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Details

Author(s):Florence Atwater
Richard Atwater
Walter R. Brooks
Richard Hughes
Hugh Lofting
Betty MacDonald
Laura E. Richards
Carl Sandburg
Various
Carolyn Wells
Illustrator(s):Robert Lawson
Robert McCloskey
John Tenniel
Keith Ward
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Editor(s):Marjorie Barrows
Publisher(s): The Spencer Press
Year Published: 1953
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
Fiction - Short Story
Girls Growing Up
Humorous
Poetry - Humorous
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 374
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
This is an Anthology
OCLC: 5139104

Description

A collection of humorous and nonsense stories and verse. Includes a selection from Mr. Popper's Penguins, with illustrations by Robert Lawson.

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Other Editions

Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938)

When Mr. Popper unexpectedly becomes the proprietor of a troupe of penguins, he takes them on the road to make ends meet.

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Recommended Books

Ben and Me (1939)

In this, the first of Robert Lawson’s biographies of famous men written by their pets, Amos the mouse reveals the real story behind the Benjamin Franklin legend.

From the invention of the Franklin Stove (based on a design by Amos) to his successful term as the United States ambassador to France, the talented mouse was at the great man’s side with his advice and counsel.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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This Little Giraffe Wants to Play (1948)

The little giraffe is lonely, but then his mother and father show him his new baby sister.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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