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"The city of Babylon, 'the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency,' 'the lady of kingdoms,' lay quiet under the silve...

"One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the Moomins." While this book is numbered three in the Moomin ...

Amanda @ Simpler Pastimes is hosting the 5th Annual Classic Children's Literature Event and I am all in!  I love this event and wil...

"I might as well tell you ----- this affair of Emil's was a great surprise to me." As part of the Children's Class...

Amanda at Simpler Pastimes has hosted a Classic Children's Literature event every year for the past three, and as April rolls around it...

Author:   Caroline Dale Snedecker Illustrator:   Dorothy P. Lathrop Era:   2nd century B.C. (around 113 B.C.) Published:   1933 (Do...

Author:  Jean Fritz Illustrator:  Feodor Rojankovsky Era:  1784 Published:  1958 (G.P. Puntam's Sons) Award:  non...

"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy." There is a wardrobe in an old room.  Picture y...

"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer'...

Amanda at Simpler Pastimes is hosting a Classic Children's Literature Event for January 2014.  I will be reading at least two classic ...