Tales of Laughter Every Child Should Know

Overview:

  • Title: Tales of Laughter Every Child Should Know
  • Author: Nora Archibald Smith, Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Year: 1939
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Doran
  • Price: $1.08
  • Pages: xi+369
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Tales of Laughter Every Child Should Know
  • Notes:
    • Published by for the 1939 Christmas gift season Published by Doubleday, Doran for The Parents' Institute
    • What Every Child Should Know Library, 2nd series (set of six, others non-genre) Price $1.08 represents $6.50 for the set, or $1 monthly for seven months. --advertisement by The Parents' Institute, Inc., Parents' Magazine 1939-11
    • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports "xi, 369 p. col. front." WorldCat (OCLC) reports "369 pages : illustrations, front". Neither library record identifies an illustrator. Any interior illustrations are probably a selection from those by Elizabeth MacKinstry for the 1926 Doubleday, Page ed.