Classic Children’s Stories

The comments I received yesterday from my post explaining how my collection of

Teddy Bears started, all said it was a very nice story.

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This had me thinking about my favourite classic children’s stories that have carried on through the generations.

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These were the books that I read to my children when they were young and that I now read to my grandsons when they are visiting.

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Of course, everyone knows from reading my post from

ABC Wednesday-W , that the first classic I would choose

is "Winnie-the-Pooh" written by A.A. Milne and

illustrated by E.H. Shepard.

The first publication of this novel was in 1926.

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Isadora from Budapest Daily Photo reminded me

of another classic children’s tale.
"The Velveteen Rabbit" or * How Toys Become Real *

is a children's novel written by Margery Williams

and illustrated by William Nicholson.

This book was first published in 1922.

It tells the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner.

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And then there is the classic “The Tortoise and the Hare,” one of Aesop’s Fables.
The fable is about a hare who one day ridiculed a slow-moving tortoise.

In response, the tortoise challenges the hare to a race.

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My next favourite is "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Anderson.

This story was first published in 1835.
It is a fairy tale about a young woman whose claim to being a real princess is tested by placing a pea under her mattresses.

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And finally I would choose “A Child’s Garden of Verses” which is a collection of poetry for children by Robert Louis Stevenson.

It first appeared in 1885 under the title "Penny Whistles."

It contains a collection of 65 poems with verses that are full of irony, wit and the fantasy of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod.

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I think these five classics should be on the *must-read-list* for every parent and/or grandparent.

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Does anyone care to add to the list with some of their favourites?

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Bear((( )))