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Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know

Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith

First published 1941
Publisher Doubleday, Doran
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xiii+364
Price $1.08

Notes


42 stories (Contents list, manual count) This contains the first 42 of 49 stories in the 1909 anthology Tales of Wonder: A Fourth Fairy Book. The known edition is a truncation at page 364.

  • Published for the 1941 Christmas gift season
  • What Every Child Should Know Library, 3rd series (set of six, others non-genre, see spine image and ASIN). Price $1.08 represents $6.50 for the set, or $1 monthly for seven months. --advertisement by The Parents' Institute, Inc., Parents' Magazine 1941-11 Subsequent advertisements note this 3rd series completed in November in 5000 sets, and announce the 2nd printing as ready 1942-01-10.
  • This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #19461 (see).
  • Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report color frontispiece, uncredited, and report no other illustrations. The Gutenberg ebook (HTML format) contains two images only: color frontispiece, not visibly signed, and b/w title page.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know 2006 Project Gutenberg eBook Anthology 19461

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 I Wonder uncredited Short Story
8 What the Birds Said Adele M. Fielde Short Story
10 The Smith and the Fairies uncredited Short Story
13 The Grateful Crane William Elliot Griffis Short Story
17 Little Surya Bai M. Frere Short Story
30 The Storks and the Night Owl uncredited Short Story
41 The Five Queer Brothers Adele M. Fielde Short Story
44 The Lac of Rupees Joseph Jacobs Short Story
51 The Emperor's Nightingale H. C. Andersen Short Story
62 Hookedy-Crookedy Seumas MacManus Short Story
81 Arndt's Night Underground D. M. Mulock Short Story
88 The Unicorn uncredited Novelette
110 Destiny E. Laboulaye Short Story
116 The Queen of the Golden Mines Seumas MacManus Short Story
125 The Deserter L. S. Houghton Short Story
131 The Two Melons Adele M. Fielde Short Story
133 The Iron Casket uncredited Short Story
143 The Knights of the Fish Fernán Caballero Short Story
150 Dapplegrim uncredited Short Story
160 The Hermit Voltaire Short Story
165 The Watch-Tower Between Earth and Heaven L. S. Houghton Short Story
169 The Lucky Coin Francoso Short Story
174 The Jackal, the Barber and the Brahmin M. Frere Short Story
189 The Bird of Truth Fernán Caballero Short Story
200 The Two Genies Voltaire Short Story
212 Steelpacha L. S. Houghton Short Story
233 The Buried Moon uncredited Short Story
238 The Farmer of Liddesdale uncredited Short Story
241 The Badger's Money A. B. Mitford Short Story
245 The Grateful Foxes A. B. Mitford Short Story
251 The Black Horse Joseph Jacobs Short Story
258 Truth's Triumph M. Frere Short Story
271 The Feast of the Lanterns uncredited Short Story
278 The Lake of Gems uncredited Short Story
290 The Sea-Maiden Joseph Jacobs Short Story
299 The Enchanted Waterfall uncredited Short Story
302 The Amadan of the Dough Seumas MacManus Short Story
313 The Raksha's Palace M. Frere Short Story
323 Billy Beg and the Bull Seumas MacManus Short Story
333 The Princes Fire-Flash and Fire-Fade uncredited Short Story
337 Panch-Phul Ranee M. Frere Novelette
361 Schippeitaro uncredited Short Story
ix I Wonder! Nora Archibald Smith Poem
xi Introduction (Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know) Kate Douglas Wiggin Essay