The Children's Hour Old Time Favorites Vol. 3

The description reads, 10 volumes. The picture displays 10 volumes. The discounted price was $25. I only received one (1) volume, #3. Never told only volume 3. Desperately wanted the whole set for a gift. I feel I was deceived!

I first ran into The Children's Hour several years ago while on vacation when I stumbled across volume 1 in an antique store. Although I don't have any children of my own, I was so completely charmed by the illustrations and the stories (many of which I remembered fondly from my childhood) that I had to buy it. Later I was able to pick up the other volumes in the series at a used book store. Each volume (at around 350 pages) has a different theme. The first is "First Story Book" and contains illustrated stories including The Velveteen Rabbit, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Curious George, Muggins Mouse at the Seashore, The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, The Littlest Angel, and many more (55 in all). Themes of some of the other volumes are Favorite Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends, Favorite Mysteries, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Westerns, and ten others (16 volumes in all). This is an ideal series for bedtime stories to read to your young ones (if you don't already do that, these stories will motivate you to do so!), for children who like to read themselves, or even for adults who loved books as children and enjoy traveling down memory lane.