Gladys Schwarcz

Abraham Lincoln
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
A Child's Garden of Verses
Hansel and Gretel
Mother Goose Rhymes
The Story of Gold
Puppet Play
What a Magnet Can Do
Animal Children
Angus and the Cat
Pancakes for Breakfast
This is Australia

The Magic Fishbone
Lightning: A Cowboy's Colt
The Story Book of Ships
Old Mother Hubbard
Drakesbill
The Jumblies
Rosa-too-Little
Butterflies and Moths of North America
Daniel in the Lions Den
Let's Visit Puerto Rico

Sir Launcelot, Knight of the Rough Table; The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat & The Rock-a-By Lady; A Squash for the Fair; The Valient Chatteemaker; First Prayer abd Graces; The Dutch Boy and the Dike; Tell Me About the Sky; Willie Goes to the Hospital; Let's Visit Thailand; Azor; Galileo and the Lamps; In Cactus Land.

We owned the whole set of these books, in my family growing up. I loved every one of them; the sheer variety was one of the draws. There are illustrated children's stories, abridged versions of classics, essays about nature or geography, and they're all written to be interesting to kids. I saved a few volumes of this series, still love to re-read them every once in awhile.