Read Aloud Treasury

by Joanna Cole, Stephanie Calmenson

The Read-Aloud Treasury makes  finding good children's literature easy. It  includes over thirty popular Mother Goose rhymes; poetry  from renowned authors like Arnold Lobel and Jack  Prelutsky; world-famous picture stories, many with  their original illustrations.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1988

About the author

Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.

She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

Reviews

[Willow · Rating 5 out of 5]

{March 2, 2024}
A lovely collection of classic stories and rhymes, this is attractively illustrated and a joy to peruse. With folktales like The Three Little Pigs and The Gingerbread Man, action rhymes, fun poems, and more modern stories such as Corduroy (Don Freeman) and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (William Steig), this is a really cute anthology. There are some alphabet, colors, and shapes pages, too, as well as some search-and-find pictures and a story rebus.

My great-grandmother gave it to me when I was four, and she left a handwritten inscription on the flyleaf. I remember greatly enjoying this treasury and have retained a particular fondness for it, reading it to all my kids.

I'm happy to be able to share it again, with my littlest one. We've read it together from age one and have lost count of how many times we've completed it so far. She loves it more with each reading.

This is a perfect book to grow with. 💗

[Jyvur Entropy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the very first book I ever held. My grandmother used to read to me from it all the time as a kid. I would sing all the nursery rhymes like ‘sing a song of sixpence’ when I was a little older I read to my sisters from this book. Just lots of great reading memories. Now that I’m trying to have a baby of my own, I want to get my hands on this book again. I want to share this great book of stories with my kids