The Random House Children's Treasury: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes & Nonsense Verse

by Alice Mills

With over 200,000 copies sold, our beautifully color illustrated Children's Treasury is full of fairy tales, nursery rhymes and children's verse that will entertain the entire family. Many favorites are presented, including Cinderella, The Owl and the Pussycat, Rumpelstiltzkin, Aesop's Fables, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Thumbelina. These stories are both enchanting and educational, combining simple morals with delightful fantasy. A classic volume, The Random House Children's Treasury is a bounty of imagination, whimsy and magic to cherish for generations.

Genres: Childrens, Poetry

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice, illustrations are spotty. Some reproductions are fabulous but unfortunately uncredited. The intro states that "some of the illustrations were commissioned just for this volume" and it is obvious which ones. Considering you can probably find this book used for a dollar or two it is a good value. If you are a 'sensitive' parent you might feel that these original unDisneyfied tales are too scary for your young child. If so I suggest you unplug the TV and lock your kid in their room for 15 years.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Several weeks ago I went to my favorite second-hand bookstore for trying to find something to read. In the children's section I discovered this gem, that calling it gem is reductive, because The Children's Treasury, Fairy-Tales, Nursery Rhymes &Nonsense Verse edited by Alice Mills is the most beautiful english children's book I have ever seen since now.

The great, maniacal cure for creating with words and illustrations the best effect is very appreciated.. Illustrations accompanying verses and rhymes are extremely colored, in general illustrations are the ones of very famous children's books illustrators. Their characteristics? Being old-fashioned, cute, tender, sweet, nice like also the ones chosen for the dreaming fairy-tales. It's a joy for the eyes and for the mind this book, able to keep very cheerful adults and children. A book created with great accuracy and love by Grange Books.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent introduction. They might have trimmed some fat. And the illustrations varied in their quality.

[V H · Rating 4 out of 5]

Being Norwegian there are a lot of English nursery rhymes and poems etc that I've heard about, through tv, movies and books, and it was nice to get to read quite a few of them in this book.
Some of the nursery rhymes I'd heard about but not read was: Three blind mice, Jack Spratt, Peter Piper, Jack and Jill and Litte Miss Muffet.

I had also heard many of the fairy tales before, but sometimes a slightly different version. Classic fairy tales gets retold all the time though, and people make new versions of them, so I guess it's kind of hard to know how, exactly, the original was. Many of the fairy tales has been made into Disney Classics, and it was fun to rad how the "original" story differed from the Disney version.

[Fenixbird SandS · Rating 5 out of 5]

Found this is excellent condition at Bookmans local used book/game stores....my son wanted to read "Goldilocks & the 3 Bears." There are many fairy tales included...and some interesting nonsense verse. [the book looks just like this...but was published in Hungary with ISBN: 3-8290-2469-]

[A · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a childhood favourite and I still have it on my shelf!

[Sam Bashaw · Rating 1 out of 5]

It was a cute book. A fun read when your bored.

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not the right edition/book

[Ja'mia Davis]

What do you do to make it look old fashion💩