Reader's digest great stories for young readers

832 pages

English language

Published 1969 by Reader's Digest Association.

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Seventy stories, legends, and fairy tales include "The Dutch Boy and the Dike," "The Paradise of Children" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and "The Plain Princess" by Phyllis McGinley.

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We need to find our copy, which has remained in the main reading collections, to confirm that it has indeed not aged too badly.

Read it several times as a child, teen, etc., and not a few stories inspired me to seek out and read the works they were excerpted from.

At 57, I finally borrowed a copy of Saroyan's My Name is Aram, because The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse has stayed with me.

Our children are now in their 20s, and have read at least some of this book as well.

Highly recommended.

Subjects

  • Short stories.