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| | *''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (retold by Samantha Noonan, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for girls, but there are three minor grammatical errors in this book). | | *''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (retold by Samantha Noonan, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for girls, but there are three minor grammatical errors in this book). |
| | *''Call of the Wild'' (retold by Steward Ross, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for boys, and well-edited such that the first noticeable error is not until p. 51 out of 64, when the verb "were" is missing in "There no other signs of life.")<ref>Additional books of this series by this publisher, with an easy-to-read font, include ''Robin Hood'', and ''Robinson Crusoe''.</ref> | | *''Call of the Wild'' (retold by Steward Ross, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for boys, and well-edited such that the first noticeable error is not until p. 51 out of 64, when the verb "were" is missing in "There no other signs of life.")<ref>Additional books of this series by this publisher, with an easy-to-read font, include ''Robin Hood'', and ''Robinson Crusoe''.</ref> |
| | + | *''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' (retold by Samantha Noonan, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (very polished, and interesting to a child with its use of animals, a car, and an escape from prison) |
| | *''Old Mother Goose and Other Nursery Rhymes'' ("A Little Golden Book," published in 1948 and again in 1988 by Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin 53404) | | *''Old Mother Goose and Other Nursery Rhymes'' ("A Little Golden Book," published in 1948 and again in 1988 by Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin 53404) |
| | *''Bible Stories for Children'', retold by Geoffrey Horn and Arthur Cavanaugh, Illustrated by Arvis Steward (Macmillan Publishing Co. NY 1980) (easy-to-read print with artwork, but flaws in using this book for children include (i) its inclusion of the gruesome [[John the Baptist]] death, (ii) its exaggerated use of elderly images in its artwork, and (iii) its dilution of [[Bible|biblical]] facts, such as [[Jesus]] sweating blood during the [[Passion]] and [[demon]]s actually cast out of victims). | | *''Bible Stories for Children'', retold by Geoffrey Horn and Arthur Cavanaugh, Illustrated by Arvis Steward (Macmillan Publishing Co. NY 1980) (easy-to-read print with artwork, but flaws in using this book for children include (i) its inclusion of the gruesome [[John the Baptist]] death, (ii) its exaggerated use of elderly images in its artwork, and (iii) its dilution of [[Bible|biblical]] facts, such as [[Jesus]] sweating blood during the [[Passion]] and [[demon]]s actually cast out of victims). |