This year get those deserving kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews something wholesome and of real value. Both the 2002 original volume and the 2003 sequel edition of The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature are perfect and thoughtful gifts. These big (528 pages each), lavishly illustrated, critically acclaimed collections feature delightful and wholesome children’s stories – personally selected by William F. Buckley Jr. – from some of America’s best writers from the late-19th/early-20th centuries. Each volume contains dozens of stories from literary giants―among them Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, L. Frank Baum, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thornton Burgess, Bret Harte, Palmer Cox, Joel Chandler Harris, Howard Pyle, Ellis Parker Butler―many first published in St. Nicholas Magazine, the famous journal that established a Golden Age of children’s literature over a century ago.

You’d be hard pressed to find better books for today’s children. Catholic Parent magazine says these “excellent, wholesome” collections are filled with “wonderful children’s stories that will delight, entertain and nourish your youngsters and teenagers.” And the Wall Street Journal says they’ll “excite in children an appreciation for the human condition.” Every tale—whether about knights and princesses, giants or dwarfs, beggars and angels, whether tales of daring and silliness, or even saintliness, with brave girls defending their country and intrepid boys risking their lives to rescue others—is wholesome, entertaining, instructive, and inspirational.

Each book originally sold for $29.95, but now you can get both for that one low price. Shipping (via US “Media Mail”) and handling are free. And if your final order is over $75 (we’ve got some other great kids books available here (our stunningly beautiful boxed set of Howard Pyle’s Pepper and Salt and The Wonder Clock) and here (our great “Bedtime Stories” set!), we will ship your books free via UPS Ground. If you’re sending the books as gifts, we will gladly send them along to the lucky recipients, and we will include a gift announcement card (with your personal message, if you’d like that!). This is a complimentary service. Order here.