I love pretty books. Beautiful prose and illustrations make reading aloud much more enjoyable to me. In fact I censor what comes home from the library. I will say flat out "no" to things like Dora's Adventure or stupid Scholastic picture books. I'm heartless. I know.
This collection of books contain some of my favorites to read to my children. The editors pair classic texts of fairy tales or nursery rhymes with a collection of vintage illustrations and artwork. I highly recommend them! 
Princess Stories, Aesop's Fables, Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Classic Animal Stories, The Big Book of Little, Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen, Sea Stories
2 comments:
Whoa! Those books look great. I am going to add them to my list, now! I am heartless as well. I censor books from the library too. Many of those books are very poorly written on top of being cheesy. Yuck!
On the rare occasions when I do read the dorky Disney books and the Dora books, I trip over words. They're clumsy.
The Chronicle books are so beautiful! Children deserve good art.
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