Once Upon A Time

Collier's Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books #2

by Margaret E. Martignoni (Series Editor), Elizabeth H. Gross (volume editor)

Collection of Fables, FolkTales from many lands, Fairy Tales

Genres: Fiction, Childrens, Short Stories, Classics

372 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1918

Reviews

[Leah]

Thanks to Volume 2 I quickly fell in love with folk tales and fairy tales at an early age, especially the ones with more sinister plots.

Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Collier's Junior Classics were read to my sister and me every night for several months. Then I started reading it by myself, over and over and over. There was a large gap of time between my last read (around 12) and when I first read it to my daughter in 2000, but that gap only helped to remind me how much I loved those stories growing up. I'm holding onto this 10-volume set - the same set I've had all my life - so I can hand it down to my daughter to read to her kids someday.

[Apzmarshl]

Folktales and fairytales, strange, funny, and a little gruesome. Our read aloud for homeschool this semester.
One story really said, "beer and skittles", which I thought was a totally made up saying, but it's real.

[Lusia Agasty P]

kumpulan dongeng dari penjuru dunia. waktu baca ini buku, ah hati saya membuncah bahagia serasa kembali ke masa kecil dulu. banyak cerita bagus dan juga disertai pesan moral, seperti di The Fox and The Grapes yang ditulis di situ pesan moralnya: It is easy to despise what you cannot get. trus baru tau juga kalo rapunzel itu dongeng dari jerman dan the sleeping beauty itu dari prancis. saya juga kadang membaca dengan suara keras dan tiap karakter beda juga suaranya, semacam mendongen untuk diri sendiri :D

[Monica]

one of my absolute favorite books from when I was a young child!!!!!

[Kelvin]

An awesome book with lots of fables and original fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel and Puss in Boots. Would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in reading classic short stories although the English in some can be a little tricky and difficult to understand.

[Amanda]

I remembered a lot of stories in here from when I was younger and my mom would read them to me.

[Stephen Chase]

The best Volume of a children's collection on an Audiobook on CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Carter H]

This book The Young Folks Shelf of Books had a lot of good stories but after a while it just got boring to me. If you like books that just have a bunch of short stories then I would recommend this book for you, but if you are into fast paced books I wouldn't' recommend this book to you.

[Cws]

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[Etola]

A clever, tongue-in-cheek fantasy that reminds me of James Thurber. Considering the sometimes silly wordplay, I didn't quite expect it to get as dark as it did, and there are many questions it never answers about itself. But it was fun when it needed to be, moving when it needed to be, and sometimes downright hilarious.