It's Thursday already, cold and foggy outside, and I am feeling content.  I have a beautiful fire going (the first of the season), the Lambies are playing well this morning, and I have had ample time to reshelve books in my library.  I believe this is a perfect moment for a book review!

Today, I present one of my favorite illustrators:  Hilda Boswell. 

I have had this book since I was a small child, and am grateful that my parents picked it up somewhere for me.  Copies of this book (and all her work) are hard to find in America, having been only  published in England.  I have read that they are scarce even there--"like hen's teeth" they said.  There are some of her books up on E-Bay, though most of them are from England.  I noted three copies of my book.

The Treasury of Children's Stories was published in 1971 and includes  "The Story of Fairyfoot" by Frances Browne (from Granny's Wonderful Chair), "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde, "The Substitute" by E.B. White (part of the Stuart Little story), "The Road to Dover" by Charles Dickens (part of the story of David Copperfield), "Through the Fire" by Mary de Morgan, "The Snow Child" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Tom" by Charles Kingsley (from Water Babies), and other stories.  There are two versions.  One has sevral more stories than the other, including a rendering of "Lucy in Narnia".  My book is the smaller of the two printings.  I would LOVE to see the Narnia drawings!!

It is truly a delightful book, superbly illustrated, that would enchant any child--or adult--who loves literature!

Blessings,

Momma