Six beautifully made books designed for little children; with a
charming introduction written especially for the series by
L. FRANK BAUM
The books selected for =The Christmas Stocking Series= may well be
called Children's Classics. They are:
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Little Black Sambo
A Child's Visit to the Zoo
Fairy Tales from Grimm
Fairy Tales from Andersen
The Night Before Christmas
Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauty
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Great care has been taken to make these books attractive. For the
cover of each an appropriate panel was painted by a clever artist.
These panels, which all have a background of holly-leaves and berries,
are reproduced in full color and are very bright and gay. Genuine
English vellum cloth is used for the binding. Every volume contains
from fifteen to twenty-seven full page pictures in colors, besides
from twenty to forty black-and-white illustrations. The type is large
and clear and the paper of fine quality. All the books have fancy
end-sheets with emblematic designs, and each volume has a specially
drawn pictorial title page in colors.
The small size of these books--5 × 3 inches--together with the gay
covers, make them especially pleasing to children.