768 pp. Includes 120 stories and poems by favorite children's authors. Over 450 illustrations by well-known artists. Color plates. Includes: The Story of Hiawatha by H.W. Longfellow, retold by Hilda Skae; The Brothers Grimm; Robert Louis Stevenson; Charles and Mary Lamb; H. Beecher Stowe; Hans Andersen; The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss; Sir Walter Scott; Feodor Dostoievsky; The Chimes by Charles Dickens; Aesop's Fables; Nathaniel Hawthorne; and more.