Serendipity: Serendipity Collection Bindup

A great gift for young children to read to them. Each story of several in the book has a moral.

My 5yo dd loves this little collection. And it is nice to not have a half dozen skinny paperbacks cluttering her bookshelf. The pictures are charming, as always, and the stories cute. If you like Serendipity stories this is a good way to go.

These stories are wonderful. Full of imagintion, it's been able to draw my very active [...] into the stories. Every story has a moral and it's great for the children to learn them and is a great reminder for adults too (especially when you get caught up in the everyday grind and forget the simple things in life)!!! The moral of each story is stated in the beginning of the tale and reiterated at the end of the story. Great stories, great illustrations, and just TERRIFIC!

'The Serendipity Collection' includes Zippity Zoom, Ming Ling, Butterwing, Serendipity, Sassafras, Rhubarb and Memily. Cosgrove is a brilliant childrens' author. His books are definitely worth your time if you haven't checked them out yet. I grew up reading some of his ealier works and always looked foward to getting the newest edition to the series at the bookstore. The illustrations in particular are consistently well-drawn and enchanting. Hopefully there will be more Cosgrove collections released in the future. This one is a good start and very enjoyable, but not quite full of what I'd call classics. Maybe the next time we'll see Leo the Lop or Trafalgar True.

I have read the Serendipity books to my daughter when she was young, she had almost the entire collection, but being in the military and moving from place to place, we lost a lot of the collection. I found the Serendipity Collection, in hard bound, with 7 wonderful stories in it, purchased it, and now I read it to my grandchildren. Once again Serendipity is being read in my house again. My grandchildren, which are 6 and 5 yrs. old, love the stories. They turn the tv OFF when it is bedtime and grab the book and wait for me to come to read the stories to them. When a child will turn the Disney Channel off, for a story book reading, that alone says a lot about the book. My grandchildren love this book, and yes, I will be buying more and more of this series. The pictures in the book are so fantastic and life like, I really am glad to find this book, and the morals in the book are just what we try to teach our children and grandchildren. This book will be a joy to anyone that loves to read to children and watch their faces as they see the darling pictures.