We have now completed our task of making this book for you,
and the machines will soon be roaring away, eating up miles of paper, So that the book shall be printed. At last, bound and finished in every particular, it will come into your hands.
As we sit here by the hearth–for it is now late night-~-with the curtains drawn close and the fire sending up its wriggling flames in the grate before us, we wonder what you think of our work. If you enjoy the stories and verses as well as we have done, you are in for a very happy time.
We, too, were once children, and not so very long ago either. As we have chosen the stories and poems for you, our childhood has lived before us once again, and we have rebelled for yet another time in the tales that kept us so very interested in those happy days now gone. So we chose just those tales, those romances, those poems that we felt sure you would learn to love, and our only sorrow is that we cannot be near you as you bury your nose in the book and read on and on and on.
THE CHILDREN’S WONDER BOOK
Edited by
JOHN R.CROSSLAND
AND J.M. PARRISH
With Contributions by
RUDYARD KIPLING
SIR HENRY NEWBOLT
KENNETH GRAHAME
ALFRED NOYES
JOHN MASEFIELD
ELEANOR FARJEON
WALTER DE LA MARE W.B.YEATS
JOHN DRINKWATER
H.MORTIMER BATTEN
G.K.CHESTERTON
STEPHEN SOUTHWOLD
ROSE FYLEMAN
THOMAS HARDY
LAURENCE BINYON
COLLINS CLEAR TYPE PRESS
LONDON AND GLASGOW
