Letters to the Wind: Classic Stories and Poems for Children - First Edition Children's Books - Vintage Book, Celia Barker Lottridge

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1995 first edition of Letters to the Wind: Classic Stories and Poems for Children, selected by Celia Barker Lottridge.

Selected by Celia Barker Lottridge. First edition, first printing, 1995. Key Porter Kids for Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto.

A wonderful collection of children's stories and poems, selected by Celia Barker Lottridge (1936 - ), an award-winning Canadian children's author. Lottridge worked as a book buyer for a Toronto bookstore, a teacher, and a librarian.

Front flap:

"In Letters to the Wind, classics of children's literature have been carefully chosen, from different locales and different times, to provide a wide range of reading enjoyment. Here traditional tales like "Rip Van Winkle" and "Pecos Bill" are joined by more recent favorites like "Harassing Miss Harris" and "A Puppy for Harvey". And the touching and memorable poems included, like Langston Hughes's "My People" and Robert Frost's "The Runaway", will spark a child's imagination and love for language.

The book is divided into four sections:

Once Upon a Time
All Kinds of People
All Kinds of Animals
Fantastic Worlds

Authors include:
Louisa May Alcott
L. Frank Baum
Rosemary Carr Benet
Stephen Vincent Benet
Arna Bontemps
Betsy Byars
Richard Chase
Beverly Cleary
Caroline Cunningham
Emily Dickinson
Walter Farley
Robert Frost
Eloise Greenfield
Lucretia Peabody Hale
Langston Hughes
Washington Irving
Richard Kennedy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ogden Nash
Katherine Patterson
Jack Prelutsky
James Whitcomb Riley
Carl Sandburg
Shel Silverstein
Mark Twain
Wallace Wadsworth
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laurence Yep
Jane Yolen

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Condition*: Fine/Near Fine. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear.

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