The Children’s Hour Series
A set of books edited by Marjorie Barrows, originally published by Spencer Press in 1953.
Books in the The Children’s Hour series:
Myths from Many Lands (1906)
A large selection of myths. Read online at archive.org.
Howard Pyle
T. H. Robinson
E. Boyd Smith
Poems and Rhymes (1907)
A collection of poems with illustrations by many artists. Read online at Hathitrust.
Howard Pyle
E. Boyd Smith
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 1 (1953)
A large collection of classic picture books.
William Pène du Bois
Hardie Gramatky
Wanda Gág
Phyllis McGinley
A. A. Milne
H. A. Rey
Dr. Seuss
Various
Elizabeth Orton Jones
Helen Sewell
Ernest H. Shepard
Nora S. Unwin
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 10 (1953)
An anthology of stories about school and sports.
Eleanor Estes
Elizabeth Janet Gray
William Heyliger
Owen Johnson
Stephen W. Meader
John R. Tunis
Et al
Keith Ward
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 11 (1953)
A collection of stories about the pioneers in America.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
James Daugherty
Esther Forbes
Mark Twain
Various
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Keith Ward
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 12 (1953)
A collection of historical fiction.
Marguerite de Angeli
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Howard Pyle
Various
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Marie A. Lawson
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 13 (1953)
A collection of adventure tales.
Elizabeth Enright
William Heyliger
Astrid Lindgren
Marie McSwigan
Howard Pyle
Kate Seredy
Et al
Hardie Gramatky
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Henry C. Pitz
Kate Seredy
Armstrong Sperry
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 14 (1953)
An anthology of animal stories.
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Will James
Rudyard Kipling
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Felix Salten
Ernest Thompson Seton
Et al
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Various
Lynd Ward
The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
Roger Duvoisin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cornelia Meigs
Mabel L. Robinson
Various
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Henry C. Pitz
Howard Pyle
Keith Ward
Lynd Ward
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 16 (1953)
A collection of short science fiction. and the various indexes to the set.
Various
Hardie Gramatky
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 2 (1953)
An anthology of fairy tales, old and new. The illustrations by Robert Lawson had previously appeared in Just for Fun.
Kenneth Grahame
E. Nesbit
James Thurber
Et al
Wanda Gág
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Marie A. Lawson
Robert Lawson
Henry C. Pitz
Ernest H. Shepard
Louis Slobodkin
Lynd Ward
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 3 (1953)
Longer selections from classic novels.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Daniel Defoe
Mary Mapes Dodge
John Ruskin
Mark Twain
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Et al
Fritz Kredel
Jessie Willcox Smith
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 4 (1953)
A collection of humorous and nonsense stories and verse. Includes a selection from Mr. Popper's Penguins with illustrations by Robert Lawson.
Richard Atwater
Walter R. Brooks
Richard Hughes
Hugh Lofting
Betty MacDonald
Laura E. Richards
Carl Sandburg
Various
Carolyn Wells
Robert McCloskey
John Tenniel
Keith Ward
Kurt Wiese
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 5 (1953)
A copious collection of poetry. Includes Robert Lawson's illustrations to three poems of Jonathan Bing. The image on page 247 of Jonathan with a wheelbarrow does not appear in Just for Fun.
Lewis Carroll
Charles E. Carryl
Alfred Noyes
Robert W. Service
Various
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Robert Lawson
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 6 (1953)
An anthology of contemporary mid-twentieth century stories.
Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Mabel L. Robinson
Phil Stong
Et al
Armstrong Sperry
Keith Ward
Kurt Wiese
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 7 (1953)
A collection of mysteries, classic and contemporary.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
O. Henry
Robert McCloskey
Howard Pease
Edgar Allen Poe
Various
Robert McCloskey
Henry C. Pitz
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 8 (1953)
A collection of myth, legend and folktale.
Charles Finger
Joel Chandler Harris
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Howard Pyle
Hilda van Stockum
Various
A. B. Frost
Robert McCloskey
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Henry C. Pitz
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 9 (1953)
An collection of stories from many lands.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Kate Seredy
Armstrong Sperry
Edith Unnerstad
Hilda van Stockum
Various
Hilda van Stockum
Keith Ward
Et al
