Sure to become a treasured part of any childhood library, this sumptuously illustrated book includes the read-aloud favorites The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, and The Princess and the Pea.

    Terrific of the best of Twain includes his masterpieces--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,--with his burlesque Autobiography and selections from Sketches. Illustrated in black and white.

    This book is a cycle of stories, twelve in all, about famous Russian poets, writers and composers: Archpriest Avvakum, who was burnt at the stake for the Old Faith in the 17th century; Vassily Trediakovsky, the much abused and ridiculed 18th century poet, the reformer of Russian prosody: Alexander Pushkin, the genius of Russian poetry; his school-friend the poet Anton Delwig; the lyric poets Fyodor Tyutchey and Innokenty Annensky; the outstanding writers Nikolai Leskov and Ivan Bunin; and the classics of Russian music, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Scriabin.Though just an episode or a chapter from the life of these people, each story contains a life - like, psychologically convincing portrait of a creative personality.

    With illustrations by True Williams, E.W. Kewmble, Dan Beard, and others.