180D: A Childrens Treasury of Stories and Poems? (solved)

Unsure of exact title. A large childrens book of nursery rhymes, poems and stories. Hard covered, may have been blue. Published in the 1950’s. Included;

Poems
-I saw a ship a sailing
-Mud(Polly Chase Boyden)
-The Goops
-Father Williams(Lewis Carroll)
-The Fairies(William Allingham)
-The Brownie Yearbook(Palmer Cox)
-Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod
– The naughty soap song

Stories
-The Little Match Girl
-The Tinderbox
-The Fisherman and his Wife
-The Emperors New Clothes
-Rumpelstiltskin
-Penrod
-Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail
-Black Beauty
-Puss in Boots
-Henny Penny
– The Pied Piper
-Puss in Boots
-The Princess and the Pea
-The Bremmontown Musicians

These are a few of what I can remember. The book started with classic nursery rhymes (little boy blue, Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, ect.) and then went to poems and then stories.

 

4 thoughts on “180D: A Childrens Treasury of Stories and Poems? (solved)

  1. Mary/skippercollector

    “The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature,” copyright 1955. Huge blue hardback that came in a cardboard box.

    Reply
  2. chanda

    This must be ‘The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature,’ edited by Margaret E. Martignoni and published by Grosset and Dunlap. I just checked my copy, and every poem and story listed is included in this book – along with a lot more! The book was first published in 1955 and the older editions do have the blue cover like this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/741429.The_Illustrated_Treasury_of_Children_s_Literature

    More recent editions have a yellow pictorial cover:https://p.gr-assets.com/200×200/scale/books/1394598154/21432361.jpg

    Reply
  3. Laura

    Yes, thank you all so much! I have been looking for this book for several years now. It was my mothers when she was little and she read it to my siblings and I when we were children. I am so excited to get to read it with my children now (instead of just telling them what I can recite from memory). Thanks again

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.