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To: greenspirit who wrote (6410)	1/20/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I bought most of those books for my kids so I don't really know. Rootabaga stories, for instance, I had to special order as it isn't widely available. Those books are really for middle schoolers, except for Rootabaga stories and the OZ books. The OZ stories even my 3 year old loves and if you get the facsimile editions of the originals from the teens and 20's they have beautiful full color plates, in the art nouveau style. There is a reissue from the 70's, which does not have the color plates, avoid those. The facsimile editions were available at Super Crown Bookstores some time ago, For story/picture books I think the following are some of our favorites: The Moutnains of Tibet (based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead), the Peter Rabbit books, with the original illustrations, the Steig books, D'Aulaire's Norse Gods, and D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, My Father's Dragon (and the sequels), The Selkie Girl, The Crane Wife, all of the Chris Van Allsburg books, Owl Moon, Many Moons, The Ox Cart Man, and then we have a fantastic set of books from the 30's called "My Book House". If you can find these at a used booktore they are well worth getting. I had them as a child, and I read them to my children. I have found 2 sets of them at garage sales so they are out there. They have beautiful full color plates, and excptional literature. If you can't get a set with the first volume don't worry about that. The other volumes are more important.