![]() ![]() One highly successful venture was the publication of works by L.M. American educator Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin’s The Birds’ Christmas Carol, an 1887 children’s classic about Carol Bird, a child born on Christmas Day who embodies the spirit of Christmas generosity, was distributed by M&S in 1912.Ĭanadian children’s authors soon were recruited into the M&S fold. Dawson’s Stories from the Faerie Queene Retold from Spenser (1911), and Oxford scholar Herbert Lord Havell’s Stories from Thucydides (1911). Other very popular foreign children’s works published by M&S included Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories in a volume entitled Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know (1909), and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan stories (1914 onwards) as well as various retellings of classic literature such as Lawrence H. M&S retained Canadian copyright to many of these foreign works, and in the 1960s re-issued the Burgess and Milne titles. Burgess, who created such notable animal characters as Peter Cottontail. In the 1930s and 1940s, M&S issued Canadian editions of bedtime stories by celebrated American author and naturalist, Thornton W. Shepard in addition to these popular books, M&S published music derived from the stories. ![]() ![]() Milne’s Winnie the Pooh series (1924-8), illustrated by E.H. Among the first notable children’s titles that M&S distributed were British author A.A. ![]()
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