Thank you, Sarah, for your reply! I absolutely agree about the unabridged/unshortened versions. I’m quite particular on that. 🙂 I believe you’re right in your remembrance of what Mason said on the subject.
I guess that was confusing, the way I described it. When I said “excerpts” from the Just so stories, I meant that only certain stories were in there, albeit each one in a complete form. I don’t really know about the longer books included, if they are partial or whole. I was hoping someone would be able to elucidate on that. I do have a few “multibook” volumes from another set, and they do have complete books inside, such as the whole Black beauty within!the animal book.
That’s a wonderful point, about favorite books becoming like old friends. 🙂 I know that was certainly the case for me growing up!
I think I had more in view the books that would likely be read in a school way, such as the history stories. There were some volumes included that had stories/books on Lincoln, Pocahontas, etc. I was hoping the set might be worth having for the wide variety of shorter elementary type stories that would be included, rather than trying to purchase each in its own smaller book.
and children’s collections of Arabian Knights and other classics where I would never dare hand over the complete unabridged version! Lol
Sorry I didn’t explain myself very well in the first post!
