The Children's Hour

This was first edited by Eva March Tappan and later by Marjorie Barrows. I have the 1953 set. This red and black set was published in both a standard binding and a premium edition. The standard binding is hardback, paper over boards. The premium edition is clothbacked (look closely and you will see the threads) with supplemental color plates.

The following stories and poems are the contents of the 1953 edition.

FIRST STORY BOOK

• The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco

• The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Dr. Seuss

• Minnie the Mermaid, Tom and Elizabeth Orton Jones

• The King's Breakfast, A. A. Milne (Ernest Shepard)

• Angus and the Ducks, Marjorie Flack (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Curious George, H. A. Rey

• The Littlest Reindeer, Johanna de Witt (Nora Unwin)

• Augusta Goose, Ruth Dixon (Bianca)

• Ten Little Pussycats, Elizabeth Jones (Grace Paull)

• This Little Pig, Helen and Alf Evers

• Kit and Kat Go Fishing, Lucy Fitch Perkins

• Twin Seals, Inez Hogan

• The Funny Thing, Wanda Gag

• A Little Lamb, Helen and Alf Evers

• The Story of Babar, Jean de Brunhoff

• Down, Down the Mountain, Ellis Credle

• The Story of Mrs. Tubbs, Hugh Lofting

• The Teenie Weenie Picnic, William Donahey

• Uppity Orioles, William Donahey

• There was Tammie, Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan

• Cocky, Marjorie Barrows (Clarence Biers)

• The Picnic Basket, Margery Clark (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Happy Hen, Helen and Alf Evers

• Adventures of a Brownie, Dinah Maria Mulock (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Peaceful Pirate, Leroy F. Jackson (Frances Eckart)

• The Horse Who Lived Upstairs, Phyllis McGinley (Frances Eckart)

• A Good Little Dog, Anne Stoddard (Miriam Hurford)

• Otto at Sea, William Pene du Bois

• In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents, A. A. Milne (Ernest Shepard)

• Hercules, Hardie Gramatky

• Pixie, Dixie, Trixie, and Nixie, Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan

• Mrs. Tabby Gray, Maud Lindsay (Esther Friend)

• The Song of the Little Donkey, Alice Crew Gall and Fleming Crew (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Little Bear Takes His Nap, Catherine Woolley (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Tommy the Tugboat, Betty Martin (Clarence Biers)

• Nine Rabbits and Another One, Miriam Clark Potter (Hazel Frazee)

• Muggins Mouse at the Seashore, Marjorie Barrows (John Gee)

• The Story of Dobbin, Alice Dalgliesh (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Little Steam Engine, unknown (Clarence Biers)

• Mr. Murdle's Large Heart, Margery Williams Bianco (Betty Carroll)

• Johnny and the Monarch, Margery Friskey (Fiore Mastri)

• Letters from the Sea, Alice Dalgliesh (Dorothy Short)

• The Five Little Bears Have Their Pictures Taken, Sterling North (John Gee)

• The Lost Merbaby, Margaret Baker (Decie Merwin)

• The Boy Who Owned an Elephant, Malvin Wald (Rosemary Buehrig)

• Janie's Wish, Mildred Lawrence (Janet Smalley)

• Apple Blossoms, Helen Wing

• Rocking-Horse Land, Laurence Houseman (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Genial Grimalkin and The Barber, J. G. Francis

• The Runaway Bus, Florence Page Jaques (John Gee)

• McElligot's Pool, Dr. Seuss

• The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, Catharine Woolley (Clarence Biers)

• The Fir Tree, Hans Christian Andersen (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Littlest Angel, Charles Tazewell (Katherine Evans)

• All Through the Night, Rachel Field (Helen Sewell)

FAVORITE FAIRY TALES

• Many Moons, James Thurber (Louis Slobodkin)

• The Last of the Dragons, E. Nesbit (Esther Friend)

• The Little Elf, John Kendrick Bangs

• The Open Road, Kenneth Grahame (Ernest Shepard)

• Song for a Summer Evening, Mildred Bowers Armstrong

• The White Blackbird, Padraid Colum (Donn P. Crane)

• A Bluebird, Helen Coale Crew

• The Elves and the Shoemaker, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, adapted (Marie Lawson)

• Puck's Song, William Shakespeare

• The Glass Hill, adapted (Elise Morton)

• Song for Summer, Elizabeth Coatsworth

• The First Christmas Tree, Rose Fyleman (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Poppy, Anne Perez-Guerra (Benton West)

• If I Were Thumbelina, Anne Perez-Guerra

• Ardan's Pooka, Ella Young (Dorothy Lathrop)

• The Browny, Nancy Clinton

• The Dippy, Edward Wade Devlin (John Gee)

• The Three Wishes, adapted (Marie Lawson)

• Brownie's Ride, Dinah Maria Mulock, retold (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Patsy and the Leprechaun, Margaret and Mary Baker (Barbara Fitzgerald)

• Once When You Were Walking, Annette Wynne

• The Three-Legged Stool, Isa L. Wright (Clarence Biers)

• The Elf, Janet Lewis

• The Fairy Who Didn't Believe in Children, Margaret J. Baker (Clara Ernst)

• The Fisherman and His Wife, Brothers Grimm, retold (Frances Eckart)

• The Three Sillies, Joseph Jacobs (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Little Dragon, Constance Savery (Robert Lawson)

• The Fairy School, Marjorie Barrows

• The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Andersen, retold (Bianca)

• Gudbrand on the Hillside, George Webbe Dasent (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Cinderella, retold (Elise Morton)

• The Man with the Bag, Padraic Colum (Robert Lawson)

• The Swan Maiden, Howard Pyle (Dorothy Short)

• Bluebells, Walter de la Mare

• The Piping on Christmas Eve, Florence Pace Jaques (Robert Lawson)

• The Great Quillow, James Thurber (Hardie Gramatky)

• The Fox Ferry, Ray St. Clair (Esther Friend)

• City Fairies, Mildred Bowers Armstrong

• Peter Pan and Captain Hook, James Barrie (Margaret W. Tarrant)

• Sea-Shell, Ivy O. Eastwick

• Rumpelstiltskin, Brothers Grimm, retold (Marie Lawson)

• The Emperor's New Clothes, Hans Christian Anderson (Arthur Rackham, Frances Eckart)

• The Lad Who Went to the North Wind, George Webbe Dasent (Marie Lawson)

• Little Snow-White, Brothers Grimm (Wanda Gag)

• Ballor's Son Goes Riding, Ella Young (Alexander Key)

• The Sleeping Beauty, Grimm and Perrault (Marie Lawson)

• The Story of Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp (Henry C. Pitz)

• The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde, Clara Ernst

• The Reformed Pirate, Frank R. Stockton (Jill Elgin)

• The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde (Henry C. Pitz)

• The Enchanted Garden, Ruth Dixon

• The Nightingale, adapted (Lynd Ward)

OLD TIME FAVORITES

• The Glorious Whitewasher and His Friends, Samuel Clemens (James Murray Haddow)

• Heidi's Adventures on the Mountain, Johanna Spyri (Marguerite Davis and Barbara Fitzgerald)

• Toby Tyler and Mr. Stubbs, James Otis (Kay Lovelace)

• An Unexpected Christmas, Louisa May Alcott (James Ponter, Jessie Wilcox Smith)

• Robinson Crusoe is Shipwrecked, Daniel DeFoe (E. A. Verpilleux)

• Rebecca at the Brick House, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Lillian B. Wuerfel)

• The King of Golden River, John Ruskin (Fritz Kredel)

• Mystery--and the Race, Mary Mapes Dodge (Dorothy Short)

• Tom and Becky in the Cave, Samuel Clemens (Walter R. Sabel)

• Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, Frances Hodgson Burnett (Janet Smalley)

CARAVAN OF FUN

• The Tale of Custard the Dragon, Ogden Nash (Keith Ward)

• The Elephant's Child, Rudyard Kipling (Keith Ward)

• Eletelephony, Laura E. Richards (Rosemary Buehrig)

• Mrs. Goose's Rubbers, Miriam Clark Potter (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The House the Pecks Built, Helen and Alf Evers

• The King's Wish, Edward Wade Devlin (Minnie Rousseff)

• Mr. Popper and Captain Cook, Richard and Florence Atwater (Robert Lawson)

• Magic Fishbone, Charles Dickens (Marilou Wise)

• The Huckabuck Family, Carl Sandburg (John Gee)

• Mr. Scrunch, Helen and Alf Evers

• Oscar, the Trained Seal, Mabel E. Neikirk (Clarence Biers)

• The Magic Glass, Richard Hughes (Minnie Rousseff)

• The Ship of Rio, Walter de la Mare (Rosemary Buehrig)

• Freddy the Detective Solves a Mystery, Walter R. Brooks (Kurt Wiese)

• The Lobster Quadrille, Lewis Carroll (John Tenniel)

• The Cannery Bear, Ray St. Clair (Esther Friend)

• The Queen of the Orkney Islands, Laura E. Richards (Rosemary Buehrig)

• Bertram and the Lion, Paul T. Gilbert (Clarence Biers)

• The Rhinoceros and The Lion, Ogden Nash (John Merryweather)

• The Pink Giraffe, Thomas C. O'Donnell (John Merryweather)

• The Old Woman and the Tramp, Swedish folk tale (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Crazy Story of Dizzy Lizzie, Hugh Lofting

• Jonathan Bing, Beatrice Curtis Brown (Rosemary Buehrig)

• Elizabeth Eliza's Piano, Lucretia Hale (Mary Miller)

• The Won't-Pick-Up-Toys Cure, Betty McDonald (Matilda Breuer)

• The Camel is a Mammal, Peter Wells (Frances Eckert)

• The First Day of School, Eleanor Estes (Beatrice Derwinski)

• Dr. Dolittle and the Pushmi-Pullyu, Hugh Lofting

• How to Tell Wild Animals, Carolyn Wells (Frances Eckart)

• A Nautical Ballad, Charles Edward Carryl (John Merryweather)

• Serapina Proves Herself, Anne H. White (Tony Palazzo)

• Cake for Company Dinner, Miriam E. Mason (Janet Ross)

• Bertram and the Musical Crocodile, Paul T. Gilbert (Clarence Biers)

• The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll (John Tenniel)

• Dr. Dolittle Meets a Londoner in Paris, Hugh Lofting

• The Ruggleses' Christmas Dinner, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Janet Smalley)

• The Big Baboon and The Gnu, Hilaire Belloc (Rosemary Buehrig)

• The Yak, Hilaire Belloc (Rosemary Buehrig)

• Robinson Crusoe's Story, Charles Edward Carryl (John Merryweather)

• The Case of the Cosmic Comic, Robert McCloskey

• The Ransom of Red Chief, O. Henry (Kay Lovelace)

• The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee, Lucretia P. Hale (H. I. Bacharach and Frances Eckart)

• Nonsense Limericks, Edward Lear

• A Nautical Extravaganza, Wallace Irwin (John Merryweather)

• You Never Saw Such an Egg, Russell Carpenter (Seymour Fleishman)

• Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine are Shipwrecked, Frank R. Stockton (George Richards)

• Sir Peter Bombazoo, Charles Edward Carryl (John Merriweather)

• Homer Price and the Doughnuts, Robert McCloskey

BEST LOVED POEMS (These are poems by all the best poets arranged in eleven chapters.)

• Everyday Poems

• Holidays

• The Animal Parade

• Here Come the Fairies

• Under the Sky

• Just Fun

• In Lullaby Land

• We Thank Thee

• Poems of Long Ago

• Story Poems

• Our World

STORIES OF TODAY

• Street of Memories, Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson (Matilda Breuher)

• The Christmas Path, Anne Higginson Spicer

• Gallons of Guppies, Beverly Cleary (Louis Darling)

• Guppies are Best, Nancy Clinton

• Rococo Skates, Marjorie Fischer (Seymour Fleischman)

• The Sandpipers, Cornelia Meigs (Janice Holland)

• Independence Day for Davy, Margaret Leighton (Janet Smalley)

• Punch Has an Adventure, Robin Palmer (Flavia Gag)

• The Penny Walk, Anne Molloy (Janet Smalley)

• Waino and Ivar Meet Honk the Moose, Phil Stong (Kurt Weise)

• Frisbie Cures the Doctor, Charles Coombs (Hascy Tarbox)

• Spindleberries and Pam, Constance Savery (Florence and Margaret Hoopes)

• Rusty--Movie Star, Alice Dalgliesh (Esther Friend)

• Story Hour, Siddie Joe Johnson (Matilda Breuer)

• Smoky, Marion Holland (Gladys Peck and Eleanor Osbourne Eadie)

• The Gang's All There, Chesley Kahmann (Genevieve Foster)

• All Mutt, Helen Train Hilles (Keith Ward)

• The Mason Children on the Roof, Edith M. Armstrong (Janet Smalley)

• The Middle Bear, Eleanor Estes (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Rule of Three, Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson (Marguerite Davis)

• Living Christmas, Helen Train Hilles (Keith Ward)

• Ellen's Secret, Beverly Cleary (Louis Darling)

• Dolly Joins the Circus, Marjorie Williams Bianco (Florence and Margaret Hoopes)

• The Circus Drums, Adelaide Love

• Mr. Dooley Disgraces His Family, Mary Dickerson Donahey (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Randy at the Art Gallery, Elizabeth Enright (Janet Smalley)

• Handsome Is, Helen Train Hilles (Keith Ward)

• The Cream-Colored Pony, Chesley Kahmann (Matilda Breuer)

• Archie and the April Fools, B. J. Chute (Frances Eckart)

• The Best Ride of All, Adelaide Love

• An Island Christmas, Louise Andrews Kent (Jill Elgin)

• Clarinda, 1869, Elizabeth Enright (Janet Smalley)

• The Old Coach Road, Rachel Field

• False Summer, Mabel Robinson (Armstrong Sperry)

• Snowfall, Janet Norris Bangs

• A Winterbound Adventure, Margery Williams Bianco (Helen Prickett)

• Christmas Eve at Reginald's, Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson (Marguerite Davis)

FAVORITE MYSTERY STORIES

• Forgotten Island, Elizabeth Coatsworth (Corrine Malvern)

• The Case of the Sensational Scent, Robert McCloskey

• The Mystery of Number 30, L. M. Swenson (Keith Ward)

• The Wastwych Secret, Constance Savery (Marguerite de Angeli)

• Stalactite Surprise, L. R. Davis (Carol Stoaks)

• The Secret of Rainbow Ridge, Audrey Baxendale (Helen Prickett)

• Old Houses, Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson (Margaret and Florence Hoopes)

• The Legacy of Canyon John, Margaret Leighton (Robert Sinnott)

• The Strange Pettingill Puzzle, Augusta Huiell Seaman (Genevieve Foster)

• Miss Hinch, Henry Sydnor Harrison (Walter R. Sabel)

• The Gold Bug, Edgar Allen Poe (Robert Sinnott)

• Calloway's Code, O. Henry (Stan Lilstrom and I. Heilbron)

• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Arthur Conan Doyle (J. Allen St. John)

• The Adventure at the Toll Bridge, Howard Pease (Brinton Turkle)

• One Alaska Night, Barrett Willoughby (Kay Lovelace)

• Hunter's Moon, Anthony C. Wilson (Henry C. Pitz)

• The Red-Headed League, Arthur Conan Doyle (J. Allen St. John)

MYTHS AND LEGENDS

• Bucca Boo's Little Merry Men, Enys Tregarthen (John Dukes McKee)

• Talk, Harold Courlander and George Herzog (Helen Prickett)

• Uncle Remus and the Tar-Baby, Joel Chandler Harris (A. B. Frost)

• John Henry, Midnight Railroader, Louis Wolfe (John Merryweather)

• The Children of the Wolf, Eleanor Farjeon (Helen Prickett)

• The Cow Golden Horn, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (John Gee)

• The First Harp, Padraic Colum (Decie Merwin)

• The Alphorn, Roger Duvoisin

• Why the Chipmunk's Back is Striped, Frank B. Linderman (John Dukes McKee)

• The One You Don't See Coming, Harold Courlander and George Herzog (Helen Prickett)

• The Golden Touch, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Helen Prickett)

• The Ashes that Made Trees Bloom, William Elliot Griffis (Robert Sinnott)

• Son of the Southwind, Frances Carpenter (Frances Eckart)

• Bellerophon, Padraic Colum (Robert Sinnott)

• How Beowulf Rules the Geats, Dorothy Hosford (Walter R. Sabel)

• The Great Hunter of the Woods, James Stevens (John Dukes McKee)

• Pecos Bill and His Bouncing Bride, Anne Malcolmson (Robert McCloskey)

• The Tale of the Lazy People, Charles J. Finger (John Merryweather)

• Phaeton, Padraic Colum (Donn P. Crane)

• The Golden Fleece, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Robert Sinnott)

• Three Golden Oranges, Mary Gould Davis and Ralph Steele Boggs (Robert Sinnott)

• The White Horse, Frances Carpenter (Frances Eckart)

• A Woman's Wit, Hilda van Stockum (Rosemary Buehrig)

• Robin Hood Turns Beggar, Howard Pyle (John Dukes McKee)

• The Apples of Iduna, Dorothy Hosford (Claire and George Louden)

• Thor's Wonderful Journey, Hamilton Wright Mabie (Walter R. Sabel)

• A Tale of Three Tails, Charles J. Finger (John Merryweather)

• Rip van Winkle, Washington Irving (Maud and Miska Petersham)

• The Great Stone Face, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Walter R. Sabel)

• The Broken Note, Eric P. Kelly (Lynd Ward)

• Capture of the Shen, Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Robert Sinnott)

• The Tale of Sir Gareth, Cornelia Meigs (Henry C. Pitz)

• Cuchulain in Shadow-Land, Eleanor Hull (Kay Lovelace)

• Big Music, Margaret Prescott Montague (Lynd Ward)

• Roland and His Horn, G. W. Cox (Henry C. Pitz)

FROM MANY LANDS

• How Birgit Danced in Her Red Shoes, Eleanor F. Lattimore (Esther Friend)

• Farmer of Paimpol, Carol Ryrie Brink (Helen Prickett)

• The Desirable Shawl, Grace Moon (I. Heilbron)

• The Eskimo Twins Go Coasting, Lucy Fitch Perkins

• The Secret Staircase, Melicent Humason Lee (Carol Stoaks)

• The Nurenberg Stove, Louise de la Ramee (Fiore Mastri)

• The First Lamb, Louise A. Stinetorf (Clarence Biers)

• Hok-Hwa of the Waterfront, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (Janet Laura Scott)

• The Singing Saucepan, Edith Unnerstad (Frances Eckert)

• Easter Eggs, Kate Seredy

• A Visit with Pierre, Hilda van Stockum

• That Boy, Helen Coale Crew (Salcia Bahnc)

• The Silver Belt, Carl Moon (I. Heilbron)

• The Baedeker Boy, Helen Coale Crew (Matilda Breuer)

• The Skeleton Windmill, Alice Geer Kelsey (Clarence Biers)

• The Monkey Spirit, Martha Lee Poston (Clarence Biers)

• Bim's Gift from the Forest, R. Lal Singh and Eloise Lownsbery (Ann Vaughn)

• The Silver Llama, Alida Malkus (Matilda Breuer)

• Tungwa, Alice Crew Gall and Fleming H. Crew (Keith Ward)

• Walk on the Rainbow Trail, unknown

• House of the Singing Windows, Nan Gillbert (Clarence Biers)

• from America the Beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates

• The McDonald Plaid, Helen Coale Crew (Helen Prickett)

• Going Up, Helen Train Hilles (Marguerite Davis)

• Who is Who? William C. White (Kay Lovelace)

• Cake at Midnight, Norma Bicknell Mansfield (Sylvia Haggander)

• Boiling the Billy, Faith Baldwin (Helen Prickett)

• Dobry's New Year, Monica Shannon (Rosemary Buehrig and Kay Lovelace)

• The Little Toy Land of the Dutch, unknown

• Desert Adventure, Eunice Tietjens (Hazel Frazee)

• The Curse of Kaing, Willis Lindquist (Harry H. A. Burne)

• The Fern Tiki, Phillis Garrard (Gladys Peck and Eleanor Osborne Eadie)

• The Forbidden Island, Armstrong Sperry

SCHOOL AND SPORT

PART I: FOR YOUNGER READERS:

• Ginger on the Fire Escape, Eleanor Estes (Ruth van Tellingen)

• The Holiday Cup, Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson (Marguerite Davis)

• The Basketball Mystery, Helen Diehl Olds (Sylvia Haggander)

• Josie's Home Run, Ruth Gipson Plowhead (Janet Smalley)

• The Prize, Eunice Young Smith

• The Iceboat Race, Olive Burns Kirby (Keith Ward)

• The Most Wonderful Thing in the World, Georgene Faulkner and John Becker (Helen Prickett)

• Horse Mackerel, Ruth H. Colby (Keith Ward)

• Jam Session at Abby's, Helen Gregutt (Sylvia Haggander)

PART II: FOR OLDER READERS:

• Anybody Can Ski, B. J. Chute (Walter R. Sabel)

• "Hoot!" Said the Owl, Ralph Henry Barbour (Seymour Fleishman)

• Beauty's Sister, Owen Johnson (Hilda Frommholz)

• Hit or Error? William Heyliger (Walter R. Sabel)

• The Gawk, Franklin R. Reck (Rod Ruth)

• Big Moment, Elizabeth Janet Gray (Sylvia Haggander)

• The Third Round, Owen Johnson (James Ponter)

• Caricature, Ernie Rydberg (Matilda Breuer)

• Master Mind, B. J. Chute (Bob Fink)

• Hoop Hokum, Jackson V. Scholz (Clarence Biers)

• Clutch Man, William Heyliger (Lloyd Rognan)

• Knights of the Red Rose, Franklin M. Reck (Bob Fink)

• The Little Guy, Irving Crump (Hardie Gramatky)

• The Cutter Race, Stephen Meader (Lorence Bjorklund)

• Marshall at Bat, Duane Decker (James Ponter)

• Two-Mile Race, John R. Tunis (Hilda Frommholz)

• Denny Puts in His Oar, B. J. Chute (Dorothy Bayley Morse)

• The Pass, John R. Tunis (Hans Walleen)

• Yogi's Dark Horse, Howard M. Brier (Seymour Fleishman)

ALONG BLAZED TRAILS

• On the Mayflower, Enid Lamonte Meadowcroft (Matilda Breuer)

• Fox and Geese, Cornelia Meigs (Janet Laura Scott)

• The Master's Footstool, Evelyn Sickels (John Dukes McKee)

• Tomorrow Will Be Bright, Mabel Leigh Hunt (Eunice Young Smith)

• Hasty Pudding, Cornelia Meigs (Keith Ward)

• Johnny Appleseed's Coat, Mabel Leigh Hunt (Barbara Maynard)

• A Ride with Tom Thumb, Marjorie Hayes (Janet Ross)

• The Feather of the Northman, Mary Jane Carr (Frederick Chapman)

• In a Covered Wagon, Emma L. Brock (Carol Stoaks)

• Western Wagons, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet (Charles Child)

• The Boy Who Voted for Abe Lincoln, Milton Richards (I. Heilbron)

• The Willow Basket, Carol Ryrie Brink (Janet Smalley)

• The Little Dog Star, Cornelia Meigs (Alexander Key)

• Christmas Horses, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Matilda Breuer)

• Caddie's Silver Dollar, Carol Ryrie Brink (Janet Smalley)

• Johnny Appleseed Visits Licking Creek, Meridel Le Sueur (Barbara Maynard)

• Strangers in the Wilderness, Alexander Key

• Mary Silver, Elizabeth Coatsworth (James Ponter)

• Old Sly Eye, Russell Gordon Carter (Lorence Bjorklund)

• The Saving of Boonesborough, James Daugherty (Henry C. Pitz)

• The Three-Cornered Hat, Russell Gordon Carter (Kay Lovelace)

• Horseshoe Nails, Laura Benet (Henry C. Pitz)

• Frontier Blockade Buster, Harry Edward Neal (James Ponter)

• Disperse, Ye Rebels, Esther Forbes (John Dukes McKee)

• A Message for Washington, Evelyn Sickels (Jack Roderick)

• Tabby's Tablecloth, Louisa May Alcott (Salcia Bahnc)

• River and Beasts Betray, Julia Davis (Lorence Bjorklund)

• The Pathfinders: Lewis and Clark, Eva March Tappan (Jack Roderick, Henry C. Pitz)

• With the Forest Runners, Joseph A. Altsheler (Walter R. Sabel)

• The Bears of Blue River, Charles Major (John Dukes McKee)

• A Pioneer Wedding, Elizabeth Coatsworth (James Ponter)

• Cub Pilot on the River, Samuel Clemens (Robert Sinnott)

• Apache Warpath, Edgar Wyatt (Frederick Chapman)

• Tooth of the Great One, Dee Dunsing (Brinton Turkle)

• Buffalo Hunting, Theodore Roosevelt (Robert Sinnott)

• Daniel Boone, Arthur Guiterman (John Dukes McKee)

STORIES OF LONG AGO

• The Cuckoo in the Nest, Patricia Brougham (Clarence Biers)

• Adventure in a Chimney, Florence Choate

• Robin Finds a Way, Marguerite de Angeli

• The Box a Bee Crept In, Laura Benet (Marie Lawson)

• At the Boar Hunt, Keith Ward (Edna Becker)

• A Gift from the Queen, John Bennett (Reginal Birch and Frances Eckart)

• Hitty's Shipwreck, Rachel Field (Esther Friend)

• The King's Cygnet, Ivy Bolton (Dorothy Lathrop)

• Dungeon Deep, Phillis Garrard (Matilda Breuer)

• The Parchment Door, Margaret Leighton (Kay Lovelace)

• Six Bells, Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe (DeWitt Whistler Jayne)

• The Stranger in the Wood, Margery Blair Perkins (Clarence Biers)

• Adventure in Candle Street, Constance Savery (Decie Merwin)

• Robin Hood and the Shooting Match, Howard Pyle (John Dukes McKee)

• Adam to the Rescue, Elizabeth Janet Gray (Robert Lawson)

• Hunting Song, Sir Walter Scott

• The Golden Cup of Casimir, Eric P. Kelly (Hardie Gramatky)

• A Life on the Ocean Wave, Epes Sargent (John Merryweather)

• The Man with the Belt of Gold, Robert Louis Stevenson (Rafaello Busoni)

• The Cratchit's Christmas Dinner, Charles Dickens (Matilda Breuer, C. E. Brock)

• At the Fall of Pompeii, Jennie Hall (Kay Lovelace)

• On Kublai Khan's Service, Louis Andrews Kent (Robert Sinnott)

• from Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Might of a Song, Eloise Lownsbery (DeWitt Whistler Jayne)

• The Glove and the Lions, Leigh Hunt

• Fisherman's Luck, Margaret Leighton (Marilou Wise)

• The Wooden Horse and the Fall of Troy, Josephine Preston Peabody (Helen Prickett, C. E. Brock)

• Out of Defeat, Constance Lindsay Skinner (Alexander Key)

ROADS TO ADVENTURE

• Yukon Trail, Willis Lindquist

• Climb High, Laura Benet

• Whitey and the Rustlers, Glen Rounds

• Oliver at the Circus, Elizabeth Enright

• Down in the Wolf Pitt, Dorothy Canfield

• Storm Tide, Willis Lindquist

• Alligator Up the Bayou, Steve Benedict

• Little Red, Pearl S. Buck

• The Round Up, Kate Seredy

• Pippi Acts as a Lifesaver, Astrid Lindgren

• Secret in the Snow, Marie McSwigan

• A Trust Fulfilled, Hubert Evans

• Why Bother with Ladders? L. R. Davis

• Steelman's Nerve William Heyliger

• Gorillas and Lions, Mary Hastings Bradley

• A Touch of Arab, Vivian Breck

• The Mystery of the Bay, Kenneth M. King

• Understudy, Noel Streatfield

• Guides with Wings, Clay Perry

• Tom Chist, Howard Pyle

• Trial by Battle, Howard Pyle

• Dantes' Escape, Alexander Dumas

• Fools Walk In, Howard M. Brier

• Follow Your Leader, S. T. James

• The Third of June, Maurice Herzog

• Down in Davy Jones' Locker, Margaret Norris

• The Pearl Diver, Charles Nordhoff

• A Kon-Tiki Adventure, Thor Heyerdahl

FAVORITE ANIMAL STORIES

• Blaze and the Forest Fire, C. W. Anderson

• Willie the Moose, Adolph Regli (Kurt Wiese)

• Bobo, Elizabeth Orton Jones

• Who Goes There? Dorothy P. Lathrop

• Bambi Starts to See the World, Felix Salton (Esther Friend)

• Deer at Night, Elizabeth Ellen-Long

• My Hummingbirds, Pearl B. Carley (Paul Strayer)

• Cubby, David M. Newell

• The Pack Rat, Emma-Lindsay Squier (Ann Davidow)

• The Sandhill Crane, Mary Austin

• Bridget on Fortune's Trail, Berta and Elmer Hader

• Nanook, Alice Gall and Flemming Crew (Robert Sinnott)

• The Flower-Fed Buffaloes, Vachel Lindsay

• How Kari Saved Our Lives in the Jungle, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Harry H. A. Burne)

• Circus Elephant, Kathryn Worth

• The Wild Duck's Nest, Michael McLaverty (Dorothy Lathrop)

• Dog's Dog, Jim Kjelgaard (DeWitt Whistler Jayne)

• Koyo, the Singer, Kenneth Gilbert (Robert Sinnott)

• Night of Wind, Frances M. Frost

• Chisel Chin, Montgomery Atwater (Walter Weber)

• Burro Bells in the Moonlight, Glenn Ward Dresbach

• Wild Dog, Ruth E. Tanner (DeWitt Whistler Jayne)

• King of the Wind and the Queen's Plate, Marguerite Henry (Wesley Dennis)

• Carca, George Cory Franklin (Rod Ruth)

• A Look at the Grand Champ, Harold Webster Perry (Matilda Breuer)

• Catalogue, Rosalie Moore (Suzanne Snider)

• The Black Stallion's Race, Walter Farley (Wesley Dennis)

• Dinty--a Husky's Story, Jack O'Brien (Donn P. Crane)

• Night Song, Elizabeth-Ellen Long

• Jambi and the Tiger, Armstrong Sperry (Harry H. A. Burne)

• Wild Horse Roundup, Gladys Francis Lewis (Frances Eckart)

• Black Pirate of the Peaks, Willis G. Craig (Frances Lee Jaques)

• The Squeak of Leather, Will James

• Answering the Challenge, Irving Crump (Lorence Bjorklund)

• White Flag, George Cory Franklin (Rudy Elstad)

• Flame, Willis Lindquist (Ann Davidow)

• Still it is Wilderness, Elizabeth Coatsworth

• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling (Keith Ward)

• For the Love of a Man, Jack London (Gladys Peck)

• The Mahogany Fox, Samuel Scoville, Jr. (Lynd Ward)

• The Little Fox, Marion Edey and Dorothy Grider

• Trail-Makers, Montgomery M. Atwater (Donn P. Crane)

• Coaly-Bay, The Outlaw Horse, Ernest Thompson Seton (John Merryweather)

• Hunting Old Slewfoot, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Paul Strayer)

• Don, the Story of a Lion Dog, Zane Grey (Lorence Bjorklund)

• One Minute Longer, Albert Payson Terhune (Paul Strayer)

• The Rocky Mountain Sheep, Mary Austin

LEADERS AND HEROES

• Michelangelo and the Snow Man, Mary Newlin Roberts (John Gee)

• Lewis Carroll, Margaret Ford Allen (Esther Friend)

• Columbus Discovers America, Roger Duvoisin

• Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood, Helen Nicolay (James Ponter)

• Kings' Daughter: Queen Elizabeth II, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Margaret Ayer, Dorothy Wilding)

• When Mark Twain was a Boy, Margaret Ford Allen (Walter R. Sabel)

• The Boy Who Loved Birds: John James Audubon, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Frances Eckart)

• Titian's First Picture, Mary Newlin Roberts (John Gee)

• Benny and the Cat's Tail, Elsie Singmaster (Keith Ward)

• The Boy Who Liked Puppets: Hans Christian Andersen, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Ruth van Tellingen)

• Galileo, Rolf Klep

• Georg Handel and the Duke, Mary Newlin Roberts (Clarence Biers)

• Helen Keller, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Hilda Frommholz)

• Antonio van Dyke and His Master Rubens, Mary Newlin Roberts (John Gee)

• Wolfgang Mozart, Mary Newlin Roberts (Clarence Biers)

• Beauty, Sir William Watson

• Charles Dickens: The Boy of the London Strees, Rupert Sargent Holland (Decie Merwin)

• A Journey with Dickens, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Decie Merwin)

• Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas (Hardie Gramatky)

• Early Days with Invincible Louisa, Cornelia Meigs (James Ponter)

• Alexander MacKenzie: Hero of Canada, Maxine Shore and M. M. Oblinger (Henry C. Pitz)

• The Wright Brothers, Joseph Cottler and Haym Jaffe (Alexander Key)

• Ben Franklin's First Adventures, Andre Maurois (DeWitt Whistler Jayne)

• A Great Soldier: Robert E. Lee, Margaret Thompsen Raymond (Rafaello Busoni)

• Guglielmo Marconi, Joseph Cotler and Haym Jaffe (Alexander Key)

• from Miracles, Walt Whitman

• Two Scenes from the Life of George Washington, Eva March Tappan (John Dukes McKee)

• Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Ransom Barrows (Lynd Ward)

• The Celestial Surgeon, Robert Louis Stevenson

• My Struggle for an Education, Booker T. Washington (Matilda Breuer)

• A Life of William Shakespeare, Marchette Chute (Robert Sinnott)

• Shakespeare, Agnes Lee

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Laura Benet (Pelagie Doane)

• Santa Filomena, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Denise Giraud)

• New York to Paris, Charles A. Lindbergh (Paul Strayer)

• Lindbergh Flies Alone

• Albert Schweitzer: The Doctor in the Jungle, Mathilda Schirmer (Hardie Gramatky)

• Marie Curie: Discoverer of a Hidden Treasure, Nicholas Nirgiotis (Helen Prickett)

• George Washington Carver, Mabelle E. Martin (Rod Ruth)

• The Struggle, Arthur Hugh Clough

• Thomas Jefferson, Sonia Daugherty (John Merryweather)

• Theodore Roosevelt, Julian Street (John Merryweather)

• Marian Anderson: A Voice in a Hundred Years, Constance Buel Burnett (Matilda Breuer)

• Henri Fabre: A Place of His Own, Irmengarde Eberle (Kay Lovelace)

• Jacques Cartier, Ragna Eskil (John Merryweather)

• Jane Addams, William Oliver Stevens (Kay Lovelace)

• Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Ransom Barrows (Robert Sinnott)

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Marjorie Gordon (Henry Pitz)

• Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, Ragna Eskil (John Merryweather)

• Patrick Henry Enters Public Life, Julia M. H. Carson (DeWitt Whistler Jayne)

• Howard Pyle: American Illustrator, Mathilda Schirmer (Paul Strayer and Howard Pyle)

• Louis Agassiz, Mabel L. Robinson (Lynd Ward)

• Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet (John Merryweather)

• Chronology

SCIENCE FICTION AND READER'S GUIDE

• What Time is It? Richard M. Elam, Jr. (Hardie Gramatky)

• Adventure on Mars, Richard M. Elam, Jr. (Seymour Fleishman)

• Mars and Miss Pickerell, Ellen MacGregor (Paul Galdone)

• The Star Ducks, Bill Brown (Hardie Gramatky)

• Lancelot Biggs on Saturn, Nelson Bond (John Dukes McKee)

• The Truth about Pyecraft, H. G. Wells (John Dukes McKee)

• The Black Pits of Luna, Robert A. Heinlein (Brinton Turkle)

• Is There Life on the Moon? H. Percy Wilkins (Ann Davidow)

• Trail to the Stars, Captain Burr Leyson (John Merryweather)

• Glossary

• Pages for Parents:

1. Fairy Tales and the Spirit, Bertha E. Mahony

2. Poetry and Childhood, Padraic Colum

3. Biographies Bring New Companions, Marchette Chute

4. The Child's Personal Library, Bess Porter Adams

5. Your Child and World Neighborliness, Agatha L. Shea

6. What is a Good Science Book? Herman Schneider

7. My First Book Friends, Rachel Field

8. Imagination and Children's Literature, Padraic Colum

9. Children's Interests in Reading, Miriam Blanton Huber

• Who's Who in the Children's Hour

• Consultant Editors for the Children's Hour

• Author-Title Index

• Subject Index

• The Children's Hour Illustrators

(Volume Five, Poetry is the hardest to find. It holds the fondest memories for many families and is sometimes kept when the rest of the set is sold or given away.)