Best in Children's Books Volume 9

Anthology of children's stories and poetry. Contents: "The Boy King Arthur" retold from the classic version of Sir Thomas Mallory by Mary MacLeod, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz; "Baby Bear by Hamilton Williamson, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; "Joyful Poems," a selection including Lewis Carroll's "The Lobster Quadrille," Shakespeare's "Where the Bee Sucks," "America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates and others, illustrated by Aldren A. Watson; "What Eddie Brought Home" by Carolyn Haywood, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats; "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Kate Seredy; "The World Uses Electricity" by Gerald S. Craig and Sara E. Baldwin, illustrated by Garry MacKenzie; "The True Book of the Circus" by Mabel Harmer, illustrated by Paul Galdone; "Birds of the South Pacific (no author noted); "The Book of Nah-Wee by Grace and Carl Moon, illustrated by Paul Lantz; "Let's Visit South Africa" (no author noted), color photographs, illustrated map.