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The building of the Nordell Books Group websites over time accumulated several clumps of books & movies (on Spirit of America Bookstore
& the five companion bookstore sites) that just belonged on a Children's Department Page. So here is that page, begun in mid-2011.
New content continues being added, and the page grew large so it was split in twain in May 2017; this section also got huge, and so was split off in late 2021.


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"Best In Children's Books" Anthologies
This 42-volume anthology series was published monthly by Nelson Doubleday from 1957 to 1961; each hardcover issue contained ten or so
recent or classic children's books, with full illustrations: a bargain at the time and still a great collection of wonderful tales.

complete set of the "Best In Children's Books" series
offering all 42 first printings plus two A-variation reprints, with dust jackets in good to very good condition
Nelson Doubleday hardcover set [1957-61] two offers for $750+ (2017) - may be sold out (2021)

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"Best In Children's Books, Volume 1" [Aug 1957]
Abraham Lincoln; How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin (Rudyard Kipling); A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson); Hansel & Gretel; Mother Goose;
Angus & The Cat; Puppet Play; Pancakes For Breakfast; contributors include illustrator Ingrid Aulaire, Maud Petersham, Tina Lee, Marjorie Flack
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Rhinoceros-Illustrated/dp/B000ZU94W0/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Hardcover-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B000AONT3Q/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Abraham-Rhinoceros-Breakfast-Australia/dp/B001BZU6FM/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 2" [Sept 1957]
Aesop's Fables; Houses Old and New; Jack and The Beanstalk; Mr. Apple Names The Children; Goldilocks and The Three Bears; Best Loved Singing Games; Lollypops and Automobiles and How They Are Made; Our Neighbors In Space; Jerry and The Pony Express; and This Is Holland; contributors include Andy Warhol, Jean De Brunhoff
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Warhol-Brunhoff-Others/dp/B003GMCE94/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Aesops-Fables-Houses-Beanstalk/dp/B001V65PUC/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Aesops-Stories/dp/B0017H2IPU/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 3" [Oct 1957]
The Pied Piper; The Ugly Duckling; Yonie Wondernose; The Owl and The Pussy-Cat; Chicken-little; We Live In Air; Little Folk's Party;
Kiki Loves Music; Dog Friends; Benjamin Franklin (abridged); This Is Mexico
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Wondernose-Chicken-Little/dp/B002GUCREE/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-ILLUSTRATED-GALDONE-Hardcover-Dustjacket/dp/B008EX4IFI/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 4" [Nov 1957]
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens); Me & the Bears; Night Before Christmas (Clement Moore); David & Goliath; Your Own Aquarium; Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs; Nature’s Hiding Secrets; John Paul Jones; This Is Switzerland; contributors include authors Robert Bright, April Oursler Armstrong, Victor C. Smith, Barbara Henderson, W.R. Teeters, Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, Smith Burnham, and illustrators Everett Shinn, Joseph Giordano, Jules Gottlieb, Ezra Jack Keats, Susanne Suba, H.B. Vestal
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Stories-Christmas-lllus/dp/B000H2B690/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Christmas-Switzerland/dp/B000JKJ3S6/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Doubleday-Editors/dp/B000IOCXAS/
http://www.amazon.com/CHILDRENS-BOOKS-CHRISTMAS-GOLIATH-AQUARIUM/dp/B001U0ZAJA/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 5" [Dec 1957]
Aladdin & The Wonderful Lamp; Travels of Babar (Jean de Brunhoff); Wynken, Blynken, & Nod & The Sugar-Plum Tree; Little Known Mammals; Trucks Are Fun;
Funny Words & Riddles; Snipp, Snapp, Snurr & The Red Shoes; Daniel Boone; Birds Build Their Homes; This Is England; contributors include authors Eugene Field,
Mary Elting, Alice Salaff, Smith Burnham, Addison Webb, Maj Lindman, Andrew Lang, translator Merle S. Haas, and illustrators Aldren Watson, Adrienne Adams,
Ninon, Andy Warhol, Edward Shenton, Sabra Mallett Kimball, Virginia Parsons
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Aladdin-Travels/dp/B002GUDPZY/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Wonderful-Sugar-Plum/dp/B000X3H5AM/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 6" [Jan 1958]
The Story of Early America; The Very Little Girl; The Elephant's Child (Rudyard Kipling); Poems of The City; Shoemaker & The Elves;
Child's World In ABC; Your Breakfast Egg; Life In The Arctic; etc...
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-America-Elephants/dp/B000GIP8EE/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Elephants-Shoemaker/dp/B000JKPFC4/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Elephants-Shoemaker/dp/B0012GEB9M/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 7" [Feb 1958]
Hiawatha; Little Red Riding Hood; The Shire Colt; The Gallant Tailor; Doctor Raggedy Andy; The Story of The First Men; Homemade Orchestra;
Life In The Everglades; Robi and Hanni In The Swiss Alps; Let's Visit Japan; contributors include authors Henry Wadsworth, Zhenya & Jan Gay,
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, Johnny Longfellow, and illustrators Richard Scarry, Johnny Gruelle, Andy Warhol
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Orchestra-Everglades/dp/B002GUHIEI/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Stories-Hiawatha-Little-Riding/dp/B000H2D2F6/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Wadsworth-Warhol-Longfellow/dp/B00B1D8X36/
http://www.amazon.com/Hiawatha-Childrens-Wadsworth-Longfellow-Hardback/dp/B0086R3R22/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 8" [March 1958]
Gulliver In Lilliput (abridged); The House That Jack Built; Giddy-ap, Giddy-ap!; Everybody Lends Jerry Muskrat A Hand; The Story Book of Wheels;
Cinderella; Napoleon, The Corsican Boy; Fishes of The Shallow Sea; Dick and The Canal Boat; Let's Visit France
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B000O9O4AY/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Cinderella-Everybody/dp/B000GISJ0O/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 9" [April 1958]
The Boy King Arthur; Baby Bear; Joyful Poems; What Eddie Brought Home; The Princess and The Pea (Hans Christian Andersen); The World Uses Elecctricity; The True Book of The Circus; Birds of The South Pacific; The Book of Nah-Wee; Let's Visit South Africa; contributors include Mary MacLeod, Hamilton Williamson, Carolyn Haywood, Gerald S. Craig, Sara E. Baldwin, Mabel Harmer, Grace & Carl Moon
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Brought-Princess-Elecctricity-Pacific/dp/B00U34JVWQ/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-King-Arthur/dp/B0012QP53S/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-9-various/dp/B000GIP8JO/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-9/dp/B002ENG75I/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-9-Editors/dp/B001TY2ZAY/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Arthur-Joyful/dp/B000I1N25Q/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 10" [May 1958]
Lassie Come Home (abridged); The Story of William Tell; Penny and The White Horse; Rumpelstiltskin; Three Little Pigs; The Poppy Seed Cakes;
Peanuts Are Not Nuts; Sounds We Hear; Rhymes To Learn By; Animals of Africa; Fern and Wilbur; Let's Visit Spain
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Hardcover-multiple-authors/dp/B000FTIJYA/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-William-Rumpelstiltskin/dp/B000VIJCZU/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-10A-Rumpelstiltskin/dp/B000JD8PSW/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-William-Illus-Lawrence-Domanska/dp/B0047DKGMI/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-10A-Rumpelstiltskin/dp/B000JD8PSW/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-10-1958/dp/B001DDEP9U/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B0014NW5M8/
Volume 10A [1963] makes things confusing
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B000BKH0L6/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 11" [June 1958]
Paul Revere's Ride; Little Heroine of Concord; Gingerbread Boy; Tim Tadpole & Great Bullfrog; Emperor's New Clothes; Androcles & The Lion;
Policemen & Firemen; 20 Ways To Play Tag; Apples' New House; Let's Visit Ceylon
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Gingerbread-Androcles/dp/B002GVQVWC/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-11/dp/B000EAIC1U/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 12" [July 1958]
Alice In Wonderland; The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes; The Three Little Kittens; The Sun Keeps Us Warm; Plink Plink!; America's Lake and River Fish;
Val Rides The Oregon Trail; Let's Visit Brazil
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-12-Wonderland/dp/B002GW6KO0/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 13" [Aug 1958]
Ulysses & The Wooden Horse of Troy; Mother Goose Rhymes; Billy & The Bear; Ten Little Indians; Sleeping Beauty; Andy & Polly; Robert Fulton; Life On A Farm;
Miss Ant, Miss Grasshopper & Mr. Cricket; Let's Visit Alaska; contributors include authors James Baldwin, Laura Bannon, Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, Rhea Wells,
Smith Burnham, Robert S. Lemmon, Rachel Field, and illustrators Aldren Watson, Marguerite de Angeli, Phoebe Erickson, Leonard Kessler, Colleen Browning,
Phyllis Rowand, Edward Shenton, Garry MacKenzie, Paul Galdone
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-Grasshopper/dp/B002PJ10R6/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-13/dp/B000NOQ6KG/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 14" [Sept 1958]
Some Adventures of A Brownie; Robert E. Lee; Wait For William; Poems Around The Year; The Old Woman and Her Pig; The True Book of Dinosaurs; Tell Me Why; Nature In Motion; No, No, Taffy!; and Let's Visit Scotland; contributors include Dinah Maria Mulock, Marjorie Flack and others, and illustrators Robin Jacques, Leonard Weisgard
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Adventures-Brownie-William-others/dp/B000UXZFV6/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Editors-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B003919HMY/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 15" [Oct 1958]
They Sailed On The Mayflower; How The Whale Got His Throat; The Oldest, The Youngest, and The One In The Middle; Puss In Boots; Our Vanishing Wildlife;
Just-For-Fun Parties; Horatius At The Bridge; The Little Red Hen; My Pet, Peepelo; Let's Visit India; contributors include Michael Gorham, Ellis Credle, Andy Warhol
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Just-Fun/dp/B000GLCI8A/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Jakob-Wilhelm-Grimm/dp/B000JKQ4WE/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Andy-WARHOL/dp/B007LBAVJQ/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 16" [Nov 1958]
The Peterkin Family; Thumbelina; Sing For Christmas; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Johnny Penguin; Toys You Can Make;
Life Along The Amazon; The Best Birthday; Let's Visit Austria
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Thumbelina-Christmas/dp/B001CV38G4/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Thumbelina-Christmas/dp/B002GWGN8I/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-16-Incl/dp/B000H28E5Y/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 17" [Jan 1959]
The Magic Fishbone; Lightning: A Cowboy's Colt; The Story Book of Ships; Old Mother Hubbard; Drakesbill; The Jumblies; Rosa-Too-Little; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Daniel In The Lions' Den; and Let's Visit Puerto Rico; contributors include Robin Jacques, Edward Shenton, Peter Spier, Adrienne Adams, Paul Galdone, Ezra Jack Keats, Illustrator Aldren A. Watson, Charles Dickens, Bill & Bernard Martin, Maud & Miska Petersham, James Baldwin, Edward Lear, Sue Felt, April Oursler Armstrong
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Fishbone-Lightning-Rosa-Too-Little-Butterflies/dp/B000EHMHQE/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-January-1959/dp/B001SE1LLE/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Magic-Fishbone-Lightning/dp/B001BZTRS4/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Stories-Fishbone-Daniel/dp/B000H2D2AQ/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Fishbone-Lightning/dp/B000OFNI64/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 18" [Feb 1959]
The Land of Storybooks; Beauty and The Beast; George Washington; Angus and The Ducks; Raggedy Andy Meets Raggedy Ann; Be A Magician; City Boy, Country Boy;
5 Favorite Fables; Keeping Our Wildlife Safe; This Amazing Planet: Earth; Let's Visit The Belgian Congo; contributors include Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Ives
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Robert-Lewis-Stevenson/dp/B000O6QCZW/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-18/dp/B002GWQLUI/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Storybooks-Washington-Favorite-Wildlife/dp/B001BZPXUK/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 19" [March 1959]
Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving); The Post Captain: Sir Peter Bambazoo; Bluebonnets For Lucinda; Mr. A. and Mr. P.; When The Root Children Wake Up;
Rufus Moffat's First Day of School; I Want To Be An Animal Doctor; Shells of Land and Sea; and Let's Visit Canada; contributors include Frances Clarke Sayers,
Margery Williams Banco, Helen Dean Fish, Eleanor Estes, Carla Greene, Smith Burnham, Hal Burton
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-1959-Winkle-Captain/dp/B00F3TDL54/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-19/dp/B0047DT7UU/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Helen-Dean/dp/B000L6SKCS/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Flipper-Rescue-Captain/dp/B002BXRB1U/
Volume 19A [1964] featured "Flipper To The Rescue"
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Flipper-Rescue-Mofats-School/dp/B000H28E7C/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 20" [April 1959]
Babar The King; Peary, Hero of The Great White North; American Folk Rhymes and Chants; Bottles, Bottle Tops, and Soda Pop; Our Nation's Capital; The Quiet Mother and
The Noisy Little Boy; Away Goes Jonathan Wheeler; Little Two Eyes; The Legend of The Inchcape Rock; Pete The Parakeet Finds A Friend; Let's Visit Yugoslavia
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Babar-King/dp/B000OFLFQO/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-20-Burnham/dp/B000KA2Z4O/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 21" [May 1959]
The Winged Horse Pegasus; Lion Cub; Animal Crackers and Other Poems; Rapunzel; Milly and Her Dogs; The Magic Porridge Pot; Bob and The Railroad;
Exploring Caves; Rabbits As Pets; The True Book of Tools For Building
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-Exploring/dp/B00220MC8O/
http://www.amazon.com/Winged-Horse-Pegasus-Childrens-Books/dp/B0017H0M0S/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-21-Various/dp/B000GVBU0W/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 22" [June 1959]
Sir Launcelot, Knight of The Round Table; The Gingham Dog and The Calico Cat & The Rock-a-By Lady; A Squash For The Fair; The Valiant Chatteemaker; First Prayers and Graces;
The Dutch Boy and The Dike; Tell Me About The Sky; Willie Goes To The Hospital; Let's Visit Thailand; Azor; Galileo and The Lamps (James Baldwin); and In Cactus Land;
contributors include Mary MacLeod, illustrator Henry Pitz, Eugene Field, Grace Paull, Mary Frere, Sara Cone Bryant, Ellen Wales Walpole, Pauline Vinson, Maude Crowley
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Rock-Chatteemaker/dp/B000F9IS3W/
http://www.amazon.com/BEST-CHILDRENS-BOOKS-22-Launcelot/dp/B00JNW0858/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Launcelot-Gingham-Valiant-Chatteemaker/dp/B000VOQBRQ/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 23" [July 1959]
Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves; comic poem Tom The Pipers Son; Kintu; Philadelphia: Cradle of Liberty; Kiki Goes To Camp; etc...
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-23/dp/B002EIUIU8/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Stories-Thieves-Pipers/dp/B000H29D22/
http://www.amazon.com/BEST-CHILDRENS-BOOKS-23-Thieves/dp/B0048CDORW/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 24" [Aug 1959]
The Cat That Walked By Himself; The God That Lived In The Kitchen; Pedlar of Swaffham; Boston Bells; The Raggedy Man; The Three Sillies; Vickie and The Mixed-up Twins; The Sword of Damocles; Animal Tracks; Mr. Mailman; Let's Visit Ireland; contributors include authors Rudyard Kipling, Frances Carpenter, Joseph Jacobs, Elizabeth Coatsworth, James Whitcomb Riley, Carolyn Haywood, James Baldwin, Robert Lemmon, Jene Barr
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Carpenter-Elizabeth-Coatsworth-Whitcomb/dp/B002ENNI96/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Swaffham-Mixed-up/dp/B00122DSYU/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-24-Various/dp/B001TY300I/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Walked-Himself/dp/B000F9IXHS/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Himself-Swaffham-Mixed-up-Damocles/dp/B001BZVT80/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B0017GX0D0/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 25" [Sept 1959]
Story of Moses; Barbara Frietchie; Lad & Other Sunnybank Dogs (Albert Payson Terhune); Whistle For The Train; Big Brother; Mushrooms;
Shipp, Snapp, Snurr & The Buttered Bread; Eletelephony; Experimenting With Electricity; Hawaiian Islands
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Book-Eletelephony-Experimenting/dp/B002GX6C5Q/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Stories-Wonderful-Sunnybank/dp/B000H29D2M/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-wonderful-Story-Moses/dp/B000F9IX5A/
http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Story-Moses-Frietchie-Eletelephony/dp/B001IDQSP4/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 26" [Oct 1959]
Wild Swans; Sir Francis Drake; Timothy Titus; Georgie; Horse For A Prince; Feeding Birds This Winter; War Whoop of The Wily Iroquois; Unc' Billy Possum;
Henry Huggins & Ribs; Baker's Daughter; and Let's Go To Portugal; contributors include authors Hans Christian Andersen, Smith Burnham, Blanche Elliott,
Robert Bright, James Baldwin, Robert S. Lemmon, Martha Keller, Thornton W. Burgess, Beverly Cleary, Margery Williams Bianco, and illustrators Colleen Browning,
Ray Houlihan, Ninon, Don Freeman, Alexandroff, Robert MacLean, Feodor Rojankovsky, Richard Scarry, Lawrence Beall Smith
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-26-Iroquois/dp/B002GZMBLI/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Swans-Francis-Timothy/dp/B00HGJM0GK/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-26-Editors/dp/B001TY6J9M/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 27" [Nov 1959]
Robinson Crusoe (abridged); Michael Who Missed His Train; Princess On The Glass Hill; The Straw, The Coal, and The Bean; Clara Barton,
Angel of The Battlefield; Card Games Are Fun (ill. by Andy Warhol); Why Men Hunt Rocks; The Story of Chan Yuc
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Robinson-Battlefield/dp/B001UZH4XA/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Princess-Illus-Lawrence-Jackson/dp/B000H29D36/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-27/dp/B002EISIZ0/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 28" [Dec 1959]
Christmas In The Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder); The Nutcracker and The Mouse-King (E.T.A. Hoffman); Christmas Every Day; Homemade Holiday Gifts and Greetings; The Three Kings; Elephant Herd; The True Book of Indians; Little Tuppen; The Magic Shop; and Let's Go To Indonesia; contributors include William Dean Howells, Tina Lee, Longfellow
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Childrens-Ingalls-Wilder-Hardback/dp/B0086R1X1E/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Ingalls-Hoffman-Howells-William/dp/B06ZZHPBTY/ = 1 used

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 29" [Jan 1960]
Paul Bunyan; Marjorie's Almanac; Little Daylight; Kiki Skates; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; Tell Me The Time, Please; Streamlined Wonder World; North America's Wonderful Wildlife; Pysen Goes To Blueviken; contributors include authors Wallace Wadsworth, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, George MacDonald, Sara Cone Bryant, Charlotte Steiner, Lillian J. Bragdon, Davis Cole, Edith Unnerstad, and illustrators Richard Bennett, Leonard Weisgard, Robin Jacques, Feodor Rojankovsky, Leonard Kessler, Richard M. Powers, Richard Scarry
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Marjories-Streamlined/dp/B000VFTZ64/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-29/dp/B000EVHF44/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-29-Stories/dp/B000H28E8Q/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Wallace-Wadsworth-others/dp/B003LOCAV4/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B000TR03A6/ info

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 30" [Feb 1960]
Jason & The Golden Fleece; Gregorio & The White Llama; Magic Skipping Rope; Frog He Would A-Wooing Go; Terrible Mr. Twitmeyer; Toads & Diamonds; Crunch Crunch;
Science Quizzes; Let's Go To The South Sea Islands; contributors include authors Charles Kingsley, Laura Bannon, Rose Fyleman, Lilian Moore, Leone Adelson, Charles Perrault,
Ethel Kessler, Jane Sherman, and illustrators Robin Jacques, Bobri, Harvey Weiss, Adrienne Adams, Paul Galdone, Aldren Watson, Leonard Kessler, Peter Spier
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Wooing-Twitmeyer/dp/B002H0U6JG/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-childrens-books-Charles-Kingsley/dp/B000GLEK9K/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Stories-Golden-Fleece/dp/B000H2B6EK/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 31" [March 1960]
Lewis & Clark, Explorers; Tattercoats; Singh, Rajah & The Cunning Little Jackals; Middle Bear; Chips; The Picnic Basket; Go Fly A Kite;
Windy Wash Day & Other Poems; Salt Water Zoos; Cornelia's Jewels; Three Seeds; Let's Go To Iceland & Greenland
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Lewis-Explorers-stories/dp/B000TSOJQE/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-31/dp/B002GJ7TZM/
http://www.amazon.com/Lewis-Clark-Explorers-Tattercoats-Cornelias/dp/B000EIKFR6/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Lewis-Clark-Explorers-Titles/dp/B009I2UMEU/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B000CQXY1Y/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 32" [April 1960]
The Adventures of Pinocchio; Betsy, Tacy and Tib Are Ten; Alfred, The Saxon King; Follow The Sunset; Funny Art Games; Peter Rabbit's Prank;
Chinky, The Banker Pony; Let's Go To Pakistan
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Adventures-Pinocchio/dp/B002H1DCBE/
http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Pinocchio-Carlo-Collodi/dp/B001HY0R06/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Adventures-Pinocchio-Rabbits-Pakistan/dp/B0056JRQAW/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 33" [May 1960]
Marco Polo's Travels; Unknown World; Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes; Shawneen & The Gander; Andrew Jackson; Sophocles The Hyena;
Nature's Home Builders; Chi-wee's White Boots; Dime's Worth For Free; Let's Go To Peru
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-33-Sophocles/dp/B002H1MIZA/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-ILLUSTRATED-RICHARD-Hardcover-Dustjacket/dp/B008EVFJ5S/
http://www.amazon.com/BEST-CHILDRENS-BOOKS-1960-Childrens/dp/B000Y90JSK/
http://www.amazon.com/CHILDRENS-Favorite-Shawneen-Sophocles-Builders/dp/B000F9IXU0/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 34" [June 1960]
Snow White & Rose Red; America's National Parks; Little Fellow; Frederick Barbarossa; A Capital Ship; Old Whirlwind - Davy Crockett; Mouse With Bobbed Whiskers;
Dangerous Day For Mrs. Doodlepunk; and Heart of The Band; Let's Go To Five Little Countries; contributors include authors Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, Gladys Schwarcz,
Marguerite Henry, James Baldwin, Charles Edward Carryl, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Rose Fyleman, Dorothy Dodworth, Harriet E. Huntington, Idellete Bordigoni, and
illustrators Leonard Weisgard, Phoebe Erickson, Ruth Ives, Robin Jacques, Manning Lee, Paul Galdone, Jill Elgin, Polly Jackson
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Barbarossa-Doodlepunk/dp/B002H44JD6/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 35" [July 1960]
America's Glorious Past; Star-Spangled Banner; Pet of The Met; Tinder Box; Pandora; Velveteen Rabbit; Simple Sewing: Doll Clothes; Let's Look At Russia;
Wonderful Teakettle; Beezus & Her Imagination; Animals of Australia
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Star-Spangled-Imagination/dp/B002H4RKDM/
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Glorious-Past-Star-Spangled-Imagination/dp/B001IDSX0C/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 36" [Aug 1960]
Noah's Ark; Pocahontas; Fisherman & His Wife; Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Won't-Pick-Up-Toys Cure; Fairies; The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Flight;
Lovely Time; Trip To The Pond; Chief Dooley's Busy Day; Tell Me About People; Let's Go To Greece
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Piggle-Wiggles-Wont-Pick-Up-Toys/dp/B002H58MQ0/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B000TR5C3O/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Macdonald-Allingham-Whitehouse-Chalmers/dp/B000KA6ODC/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books-Jakob-Wilhelm-Grimm/dp/B000JKQ4WE/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Noahs-Ark/dp/B000F9IY7M/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 37" [Sept 1960]
The King of The Golden River; Childhood Poems; The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen); The Wisdom of Five Famous Men; Harvey and Higgins Incorporated;
The Bremen Town Musicians (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm); Kiki Dances; Mrs. Goose and Her Friends; Some Favorite Game Birds Land and Water; The True Book of Toys At Work;
The Bell of Atri; Let's Go To Chile; contributors include Sara Cone Bryant, James Baldwin, Alice Dalgliesh, Charlotte Steiner, Miriam Clark Potter, John Lewellen,
Robin Jacques, Barbara Cooney, Idellete Bordigoni, Edward Shenton, Richard Scarry, Edy LeGrand, Paul Galdone, Harvey Weiss, Mario Micossi
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Golden-River/dp/B000XY2HW2/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Vol-37/dp/B002H56F0K/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Christain-Andersen-Dalgliesh-Lewellen/dp/B000KA6OF0/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 38" [Oct 1960]
The Wonderful Tar-Baby and Other Brer Rabbit Stories (Joel Chandler Harris); Pioneer Cities of America; Big Red Bus; Ted and Nina; Have A Happy Rainy Day; Injun Summer;
The Connemars Donkey; Calico Pie; Obedient Jack; How To Send Secret Messsages; Crossing The Rubicon; Let's Go To Arabia; contributors include Ella Gates Jones,
Ethel & Leonard Kessler, Marguerite De Angeli, John McCutcheon, Eleanor Farjeon, Edward Lear, Sam & Beryl Epstein, James Baldwin
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Book-various-authors/dp/B001KUQN96/
http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Wonderful-Tar-Baby-Connemars-Obedient/dp/B001K2IH7U/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 39" [Nov 1960]
Black Beauty and Ginger; Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes; The Nightingale; Lost In The Apple Cave; The Cow Who Fell In The Canal; True Book of Space; Wee Brigit O'Toole;
Pets Around The World; Little Eddie, Junk Collector; The Man In The Manhole; The Lad Who Went To The North Wind; and Let's Go To Belguim; contributors include
authors Anna Sewell, Hans Christian Anderson, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Phyllis Krasilovsky, Illa Podendorf, Ruth & Richard Holberg, Carolyn Haywood, Juniper Sage, and
illustrators Phoebe Erickson, Marguerite de Angeli, Colleen Browning, Ninon, Peter Spier, Richard Scarry, Polly Jackson, Robert Maclean, Earl Thollander, Elizabeth Skilton
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-No-Nightingale/dp/B000KA2ZAS/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 40" [Dec 1960]
With Dorothy In Oz (L. Frank Baum); Roger & The Fox; Wishes; Page, Squire & Knight; Plants To Have Fun With; Master of All Masters; Fountain of Youth;
Mr. Murdle's Large Heart; Ulysses S. Grant; Prehistoric Animals of North America; contributors include authors Lavinia R. Davis, Sara Cone Bryant,
Eva March Tappan, Millicent E. Selsam, Margery Williams Bianco, Smith Burnham, and illustrators Richard Scarry, Theresa Sherman, Robin Jacques,
Vladimir Bobri, Su Zan N. Swain, Adrienne Adams, Aldren Watson, Irene Haas, Feodor Rojankovsky, Edward Shenton
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-40-Prehistoric/dp/B002H5UCOU/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-40-Childrenss/dp/B0041BWINQ/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 41" [Jan 1961]
Robin Hood; Heidi Goes To the Pasture (Johanna Spyri); Walrus & The Carpenter (Lewis Carroll); How the Camel Got His Hump (Rudyard Kipling); One Horse Farm;
Mop Top; What the Good-Man Does Is Always Right (Hans Christian Anderson); Thomas Jefferson: Father of Democracy; Let's Go To Argentina; contributors include
authors Mary MacNab, Don Freeman, Dahlov Ipcar, Smith Burnham, Olive V. Haynes RN, Robert North, and illustrators H.B. Vestal, Ninon, Robin Jacques,
Aldren A. Watson, Feodor Rojankovsky, Maurice Sendak, Henry Pitz, Harvey Weiss, Leonard Kessler
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Nelson-Doubleday/dp/B00140933U/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Carpenter-Jefferson/dp/B002H6KK0K/

"Best In Children's Books, Volume 42" [Feb 1961]
Buffalo Bill; The Doll In The Grass; Songs of Nature; Kiki Is An Actress; The Endless Tale; Edison and Marconi; True Book of Little Eskimos; Henry and Ribsy
Go Fishing; Let's Go To Germany; contributors include authors William Frederick Cody, Peter Christen Asbjornsen & Jorgen Engebretsen Moe, George Webbe Dasent,
Alfred Tennyson, Charlotte Steiner, James Baldwin, Smith Burnham, Donalda McKillop Copeland, Margery Clark, Beverly Cleary, and illustrators Ray Houlihan,
Lawrence Beall Smith, Polly Jackson, Charlotte Steiner, Adrienne Adams, Ruth Ives, Peter Spier, Edward Shenton, Maud & Miska Petersham, Robert MacLean
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Various-Authors/dp/B000CCXNPA/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-contains-Buffalo/dp/B0015YSNLI/
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Books-Buffalo-Grass/dp/B000IOCXB2/


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