J. M. Barrie

A completely new selection of outstanding children's stories and poems compiled for enrichment reading by a distinguished editorial board of children's librarians. Contains: From [The Adventures of Pinocchio / Carlo Collodi]-- [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]( / Lewis Carroll -- From [The Borrowers / Mary Norton]-- [Miss Hickory]/ Carolyn Sherwin Bailey -- From [Winnie-the-Pooh / A.A. Milne]-- A Crime Wave in the Barnyard / Walter R. Brooks -- [Mischief in Fez]/ Eleanor Hoffmann -- [The King of the Golden River]/ John Ruskin -- [Mr. Toad]/ Kenneth Grahame -- The Mermaid's Lagoon / J.M. Barrie -- From Twenty-one Balloons / William Pene Du Bois -- The Old Lady's Bedroom / George MacDonald : : : : :

An amialbe visualization of what might happen if restless mortals had the second chance, for which they crave, to reconstruct their lives.

National Theatre, direction: A.L. Erlanger & W.H. Rapley, business management: S.E. Cochran. S.E. Cochran offers the National Theatre Players in "What Every Woman Knows," by Sir James M. Barrie, staged by Addision Pitt, scenery by Charles Squires. Stage manager Frank Peck, production built by Charles Sturbitts, properties Geo. Donaldson, electrician, Walter Burke.

BLUE CALF LEATHER. GILT EDGES, MULTI-COLORED LEATHER SPINE.

Miss Thing, a poor London girl, takes care of a group of refugee children from various countries during the First World War. She adores the story of Cinderella and dreams, in an impoverished state, of being at the ball.

> The Young Visiters has long been established as comic masterpiece; many of its entrancing phrases have passed into common usage. It has been dramatised for the stage and television and made into a musical. This classic story of life and love in late Victorian England as seen from the nursery window has been in print ever since it was first published in 1919, nearly thirty years after it was written by the nine year-old Daisy. >Now an entirely new edition of The Young Visiters has been produced. It has been illustrated with drawings by Posy Simmonds which are as enchanting and witty as the story. The text has been transcribed afresh from the original and J. M. Barrie's famous preface, written with all the authority of the author of Peter Pan, has been retained.

The story of the play concerns an aristocratic English family who revert to the state of Nature when shipwrecked on a desert island. While there, they are willing slaves to their former butler, but on return to civilization, the positions are shifted.

Tells of Peter Pan's adventures in London's Kensington Gardens.

Introduction by author: "When the English publishers read "A Window in Thrums" in manuscript they thought it unbearably sad and begged me to alter the end. They warned me that the public do not like sad books. Well, the older I grow and the sadder the things I see, the more do I wish my books to be bright and hopeful, but an author may not always interfere with his story, and if I had altered the end of "A Window in Thrums" I think I should never have had any more respect for myself. It is a sadder book to me than it can ever be to anyone else. I see Jess at her window looking for the son who never came back as no other can see her, and I knew that unless I brought him back in time the book would be a pain to me all my days, but the thing had to be done. I think there are soft-hearted readers here and there who will be glad to know that there never was any Jess. There is a little house still standing at the top of the brae which can be identified as her house, I chose it for her though I was never in it myself, but it is only the places in my books about Thrums that may be identified. The men and women, with indeed some very subsidiary exceptions, who now and again cross the square, are entirely imaginary, and Jess is of them. But anything in her that was rare or beautiful she had from my mother; the imaginary woman came to me as I looked into the eyes of the real one. And as it is the love of mother and son that has written everything of mine that is of any worth, it was natural that the awful horror of the untrue son should dog my thoughts and call upon me to paint the picture. That, I believe now, though I had no idea of it at the time, is how "A Window in Thrums" came to be written, less by me than by an impulse from behind. And so it wrote itself, very quickly. I have read that I rewrote it eight times, but it was written once only, nearly every chapter, I think, at a sitting. "

The story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. Peter has many stories involving Wendy Darling and her two brothers, his fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook.