This volume (from NYRB Kids) collects together nine years of Lucretia P. Hale’s comedic vignettes.

Considered a classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery.

Lucretia Hale (1820-1900) wrote widely for the American magazine market. The Peterkins are a Bostonian family of quite Bostonian  devoted to self-improvement and aspirations. The sketches humorously portray a variety of difficulties arising from their naïveté. Each time the family is rescued from disaster by the common sense of the Lady from Philadelphia.

Good for dipping into.

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This  NYRB (New York Review Books) edition collects all three titles of the author’s well-regarded fantasy trilogy: Sailing To Cythera [1974], The Island of the Grass King [1979] and Uncle Terrible [1989]. 

Willard won the 1982 Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake’s Inn.

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Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. They are collected here in one volume for the first time. These are richly told tales of sparkling intensity about animals finding their form, and God’s struggle to understand what he has created.

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The Island of Horses, first published in 1956, showcases Dillon’s characteristically economic style and imaginative renderings of coastal Irish life.

“Dillon paints a vivid portrait of the harsh life on these remote islands; the reader can smell the peat fires and feel the lash of winds off the Atlantic…” Horn Book Magazine

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Dubbed an American Wind In The Willows this eccentric tale of a wise old lobster’s exploration of new lands was first published in the 1930s.

This reissue by the New York Books imprint comprises two titles in one: The Curious Lobster [1935] and its sequel The Curious Lobster’s Island [1939]

The books’ illustrations are by Marion Freeman Wakeman. 

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The third of Maria Kalman’s Max Stravinsky books to be published in the New York Review’s Children’s Collection. The book was first published in 1991. Since the Max books were originally published Kalman has become widely known for her New Yorker covers, for a collection of newspaper columns from the New York Times and for ehibits at museums and art galleries.
The other books are listed on ACHUKA and can be found by entering the author’s name in the Search box on the main page…

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