Children's Favorite Classics
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Adventures of a Brownie | by Miss Mulock | 1893 |
Aesop's Fables | by McSpadden | 1903 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | by Lewis Carroll | 1893 |
Anderson's Fairy Tales | by Anonymous | 1897 |
Arabian Nights | by Anonymous | 1900 |
Baron Munchausen | by Raspe | 1902 |
Bible Stories for Young People | by Sarah E. Dawes | 1903 |
Black Beauty | by Anna Sewell | 1895 |
Carrots | by Mrs. Molesworth | 1895 |
Cuckoo Clock | by Mrs. Molesworth | 1895 |
Dog of Flanders and Other Stories | by Ouida | 1910 |
Don Quixote | retold by Calvin Dill Watson | 1901 |
Fairy Book | by Miss Mulock | 1898 (16 mo. only) |
Fairy Legends of the French Provinces | 1903 | |
Grandfather's Chair | by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1898 (16 mo. only) |
Greek Heroes | by Charles Kingsley | 1900 |
Grimm's Tales | by Lucy Crane | 1896 |
Gulliver's Travels | by Dean Swift | 1901 |
Heart | by De Amicis | 1901 |
Heidi | by Johanna Spyri | 1902 |
History of England | by Calcott | 1902 |
History of France | by Calcott | 1902 |
History of Greece | by Calcott | 1902 |
History of Rome | by Calcott | 1902 |
Jackanapes and Daddy Darwin | by Mrs. J. H. Ewing | 1893 |
Little Lame Prince | by Miss Mulock | 1893 |
Lob Lie by the Fire | by Mrs. J. H. Ewing | 1893 |
Mopsa, the Fairy | by Jean Ingelow | 1901 |
Peep of Day | by Anonymous | 1893 |
Pilgrim's Progress | by Bunyan | 1903 |
Robin Hood | by J. Walker McSpadden | 1904 |
Robinson Crusoe | by Daniel Defoe | 1899 |
Rollo at Work | by Jacob Abbott | 1897 |
Rollo at Play | by Jacob Abbott | 1897 |
Stories of King Arthur | by U. Waldo Cutler | 1904 |
Stories from Chaucer | by J. W. McSpadden | 1906-1909 |
Stories from Dickens | by J. Walker McSpadden | 1906 |
Stories from Homer | by Alfred J. Church | 1901 |
Stories from Morris | by Madeline Edgar | 1907 |
Stories from Plutarch | by F. Jameson Rowbotham | 1905 |
Stories from Scottish History | by M. L. Edgar | 1906 |
Stories from Virgil | by Alfred J. Church | 1901 |
Stories from Wagner | by J. Walker McSpadden | 1905 |
Stories of Early England | by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton | 1910 |
Story of a Short Life | by Mrs. J. H. Ewing | 1893 |
Swiss Family Robinson | by J. D. And J. R. Wyss | 1899 |
Tales of Herodotus | by H. L. Have | 1906 |
Tales from Shakespeare | by Charles Lamb | 1903 |
Tanglewood Tales | by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1897 |
Through the Looking Glass | by Lewis Carroll | 1893 |
Treasure Island | by Stevenson | 1910 |
Water Babies | by Charles Kingsley | 1895 |
Wonder Book | by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1896 |
The date noted after the book titles is when the volume was added to this series. All of these books are reprints.
Between 1893 and 1898 there were two formats published: an 8vo. and a 16 mo. sized book.
Beginning in 1899 the 8 vo. books were no longer published.
In 1900 a new format was introduced for the 16 mo. titles.
Format 1 (8 vo.) 1893-1898
Cloth. Light blue. Cover has a decorative floral design. Gilt lettering on the spine and the cover. 8.5" x 6.5".
Illustrations.
Format 1 (16 mo.) 1893-1897.
Half vellum. Floral picture on right half of the front cover. Gilt spine lettering.
(Three quarter vellum bindings have also been seen. It is unclear as to the dates of each format.)
Format 2 (1898-1899)
Cloth. Green seen. Decorative floral cover design. Gilt spine lettering. 6.5" x 4.5".
Format 3 (1900-1906)
Cloth. Green. Full cover (back and front) book appropriate applique. Colored frontispiece. 6.75" x 4.5".
Format 4. 1907-1910'2
Cloth. Red with full cover book appropriate applique. 6.75" x 4.5"